Meet the Doctor
William F. Deegan III, MD
Dr. William Deegan, a native of New Jersey, received his undergraduate and medical degrees from
Tufts University in Boston. After an internship in medicine at
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, he took his residency in ophthalmology at the
New England Eye Center (NEEC) at Tuft-New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center), followed by a year as Chief Resident in Ophthalmology. As Chief Resident, he was responsible for resident teaching and served as co-director of the Ocular Trauma Service.
After Los Angeles, Dr. Deegan returned to the greater Washington, DC, area and established the region’s first and only ocular oncology and pediatric retinal practices. He has served on the Retina Service at
Childrens National Medical Center
in Washington and was the director of the Service until 2018.
Dr. Deegan has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored book chapters on retinoblastoma and retinopathy of prematurity, and been actively engaged in teaching medical students and residents at the three academic ophthalmology programs in the area. He is a charter member of the Association of Pediatric Retinal Surgeons, and has delivered research presentations and lectures at national and international meetings. He delivered the 2019 Moshe Lahav, MD, Memorial Lecture at Tufts Medical Center in 2019, and was named to the Richard D. Richards Lectureship at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in 2009.
