Balaji Perumal, MD

Balaji Perumal, MD serves as Oculoplastic Surgeon and Medical Director at Clemson Eye Aesthetics. He works as an ophthalmic plastic, facial cosmetic, and reconstructive eye surgeon, with a practice that also reaches orbital tumors, entropion and ectropion repair, and lacrimal system and tearing disorders. He has written multiple articles and chapters on oculofacial surgery topics.

His training includes the University of Pennsylvania and a medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed an internship at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, followed by an ophthalmology residency at the Kresge Eye Institute, where he received multiple awards for top research. A two-year fellowship sponsored by ASOPRS at Albany Medical Center completed his specialized training in reconstructive and cosmetic oculofacial surgery.

He is a board-certified member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of ASOPRS, a society with about 600 members in the United States that requires multiple exams, a thesis, and extensive surgical experience. His clinical focus covers eyelid reconstruction, periocular skin cancer and lesions, ptosis repair, endoscopic brow lift, and thyroid eye disease, as well as cosmetic blepharoplasty, also called eyelid lifts. Within the aesthetics program he handles reconstructive eyelid surgery, cosmetic eyelid and brow procedures, and oculoplastic consultations.