Doctor Brent W. Carmack is Board Certified and is an M.D. As a
medical doctor and an eye surgeon he is very interested in educating patient's about their eye
health and no patient leaves his office with unanswered questions.
He is aggressive about diagnosing disease and when required treats with the latest medical and surgical technology. He strongly believes in being available to his patients and referring physicians and is
happy to answer questions or see patients at any time. Despite his availability, he is committed to
seeing his scheduled patients in a timely manner.
Dr. Carmack graduated
Summa Cum Laude at the top of his class from Washington State University
after being offered scholarships to several schools out of high
school. He went on to earn his M.D. at the University of South Florida
where he scored in the upper echelon of the nation during his
medical licensing exams and was awarded The Clinical Professors
Scholarship given to two students each year and paying for one year
of medical school tuition. He also won The USF Research Day
Award as a third year medical school and was able to publish
multiple research papers in prominent journals. Following this
eight years of premedical and medical school studies he spent one year at Tampa General Hospital and The Haley
VA Hospital as an intern and then another three years as a resident at The USF Eye Institute.
As a resident he was chosen as a speaker at ARVO regarding his work
on determining the efficacy of photodynamic therapy laser
penetrating blood in the treatment of wet macular degeneration. In addition
to this twelve years of training, he vigorously follows any advancing technologies to better provide for his
patients. An example of this is being one of the first doctors in the country to use bifocal lens implants and astigmatism lens implants to help his cataract patients live without glasses.
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