Ranti Oguntoye-Ouma, M.D.

Glaucoma | Cataracts

Ranti Oguntoye-Ouma is a board-certified ophthalmologist who has also served as an attending, assistant professor, and glaucoma surgeon at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. From 2022 to 2025, she was the Lead Ophthalmology Consultant to the White House Medical Unit. She did her glaucoma fellowship at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute and her medical school at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She has published primarily in the areas of ocular trauma and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). In addition to being a physician, she is a US Army officer with the rank of Colonel. Her military career has included working in military intelligence, being a paratrooper, and being a flight surgeon. She deployed to Afghanistan as a flight surgeon but has also done non-medical missions in Qatar, Panama, Kuwait, and South Korea. She is the first awardee of the American Glaucoma Society George Spaeth Fellowship, a program designed to use recently graduated United States glaucoma fellows to help train host nation ophthalmologists in how to do safe, economical, and collaborative glaucoma and cataract surgery given their limited resources. In 2024, she traveled to various Aravind eye hospitals in Chennai, India. Most recently in early 2025, she traveled to the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation Eye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where she trained TCF residents and collaborated with TCF ophthalmology staff in performing glaucoma procedures and managing challenging glaucoma patients.