Peter Liggett

Dr. Peter E. Liggett is a nationally renowned macula and retina specialist who has received numerous grants and awards and has written more than 75 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed literature. He has written four major textbooks on diseases of the macula and retina. He is an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology. He was the founder and president of New England Retina Associates until August of 2013. Dr. Liggett is a nationally renowned educator who has been a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at both Yale School of Medicine and the Cornell Weill College of Medicine in New York. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California. Dr. Liggett was a principal investigator on the National Institute of Health Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study.

Dr. Liggett received his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his internal medicine and ophthalmology residencies at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City, and his vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the University of Southern California with Steve Ryan. He is board certified in both ophthalmology and internal medicine.

Additionally, Dr. Liggett is a member of all three of the peer invitation-only societies: the Retina Society, the Macula Society, the Jules Gonin Society (the international society for retinal diseases) and the American Uveitis Society.

Dr. Liggett was a principal investigator in the National Eye Institute’s National Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study and the Silicone Oil Study for Complicated Retinal Detachments. He is listed in the peer-compiled book, “Best Doctors in America.”