Lauren S. Taney, M.D.

Lauren S. Taney, M.D., has been a retina specialist at Washington Eye Physicians and Surgeons since 2014. She focuses on medical retina conditions such as macular degeneration linked to aging, diabetes-related retinal damage, blockages in retinal blood vessels, central serous chorioretinopathy, hereditary retinal disease, and tears in the retina. She also provides comprehensive eye care.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and a medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. Her internship in internal medicine was at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She then completed an ophthalmology residency at Georgetown University Hospital and Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, and a vitreoretinal disease fellowship at New England Eye Center/Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was a sub-investigator on multiple clinical trials.

Her research has covered macular degeneration linked to aging, cystoid macular edema, vitreomacular traction and retinal imaging methods. She has presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Retina Society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the New England Ophthalmological Society, and has published peer-reviewed articles in JAMA Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina. She has written two textbook chapters on retinal disease. She is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the Maryland Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons. She speaks English and is fluent in Spanish.