Michael X. Repka, M.D., MBA, is the David L. Guyton, M.D., and Feduniak Family Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute and a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has been at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1983. He received his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 1979 and completed his ophthalmology residency in 1983 at Wills Eye Hospital. He completed his MBA at Johns Hopkins University in 2010. Dr. Repka led the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, funded by the National Eye Institute, from 1997 to 2009 as chair and currently serves as a member of the operations and executive committees.
Dr. Repka currently serves as vice chair for Clinical Practice at the Wilmer Eye Institute and division director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He is president-elect of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He also serves the AAO as medical director for Governmental Affairs. He is a past chair of the FDA’s Ophthalmic and Dermatological Advisory Committee, a member of the FDA’s Ophthalmic Devices Panel and is AAO’s CPT Advisor to the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel.
In 2023, Dr. Mitchel Wong and his wife, Mrs. Rose Wong, established the Milton and Laurie Boniuk Excellence in Ophthalmology Lectureship to honor the Boniuks’ remarkable six decades of service and dedication to Baylor College of Medicine.
