Brian Horsman, MD

Clinical Expertise

Dr. Horsman is a highly experienced retinal specialist with over four decades of clinical and surgical experience. He has performed more than 13,000 retinal surgeries and hundreds of thousands of laser procedures. His expertise includes treating complex retinal conditions such as retinal detachments, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, pediatric retinal disease, ocular trauma, and complications from cataract surgery.

He was an early adopter of advanced surgical techniques, including Pars Plana Vitrectomy, the use of intravitreous gas, silicone oil tamponade, laser treatments, and Micropulse laser therapy. His leadership and innovation helped modernize surgical treatment of retinal and vitreous diseases across the Atlantic Provinces of Canada and, later, in the United States.

Currently, Dr. Horsman serves as the Director of the Retinal Department at Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center, where he leads a team of six retinal surgeons. He continues to focus on laser surgery and intravitreal injections for macular disease and offers second opinions and collaborative care for referring doctors.

Education and Medical Training

Dr. Horsman earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He continued at Dalhousie to complete his MD in 1978, followed by a rotating internship in 1979. After practicing Family and Emergency Medicine for three years in Saint John, New Brunswick, he returned to Dalhousie for a four-year residency in Ophthalmology, which included one year dedicated to pathology.

He completed his fellowship in Retina at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988.

Accolades

Dr. Horsman has made numerous contributions to the field of retinal surgery. He introduced several advanced retinal procedures at Dalhousie University and served as an Assistant Professor, where he modernized the department’s surgical protocols. He was a pioneer in using the Heidelberg confocal laser camera for imaging and diagnosing retinal diseases and studied with Professor Giovanni Staurenghi in Milan, Italy.
He is a member of:

• American Society of Retinal Specialists
• American Ophthalmology Society (Fellow)
• European Society of Retinal Specialists
• International Spectralis Symposium

Dr. Horsman has presented papers on retinal disease throughout North America and Europe and helped establish state-of-the-art imaging and surgical practices within Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center clinics across the Phoenix metro area.