Richard H. Fish, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Fish is a Houston native who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham/Eye Foundation Hospital and Vitreoretinal Fellowship at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Subsequently, Dr. Fish was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for two and a half years. He moved back to Houston and joined VRC in 1992. Dr. Fish has lectured extensively and published numerous scientific papers and book chapters on inflammatory and infectious conditions, vitreomacular diseases, and neuro-ophthalmologic disorders. He is a nationally recognized specialist in the research and treatment of opportunistic infections of the eye and is a scientific reviewer for two major ophthalmic journals. Dr. Fish is a Clinical Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, is a member of the American Society of Retina Specialists, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is a past president of the Houston Ophthalmological Society. He is fluent in Spanish and in his spare time plays drums in a rock and roll band with several other doctors.