Jacob D. Rosenbaum, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, specializes in medical and surgical treatment of diseases of the retina, macula and vitreous. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist who received his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Munich. He completed a medical internship and residency in Ophthalmology at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery also at SUNY Downstate. He has been teaching residents and medical students at Mount Sinai since 1978 and also serves as adjunct clinical professor at SUNY College of Optometry.

  Dr. Rosenbaum is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons as well as a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the New York State Medical and Ophthalmological Societies and the Brooklyn Ophthalmological Society. He is trained in the most advanced techniques to treat diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachments and other vitreoretinal diseases. Dr. Rosenbaum performs comprehensive retinal examinations and also evaluates the retina with optical coherence tomography, B-scan ultrasonography and fluorescein angiography.