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Michelle Tarver is a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration in the Center
for Devices and Radiological Health. She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, GA
where she received a B.S. in biochemistry. She completed the MD/PhD program at The
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2002 earning her
doctorate in epidemiology. She completed her MD at the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine in 2003. Following her internal medicine internship, she completed a residency
in ophthalmology with fellowship training in ocular inflammation at the Wilmer Eye
Institute (Johns Hopkins). She is board certified in ophthalmology and was previously an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine in the Division of Ocular Immunology. She joined the Food and
Drug Administration in 2009 where she works on ensuring that ophthalmic devices are
safe and effective before entering the US marketplace. She is actively involved in
research on ophthalmic devices and efforts aimed at incorporating the patient’s voice in
the evaluation of medical devices. She continues to see uveitis patients through her
privileges at The Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Clinic, the Walter Reed National Medical
Center, and Solomon Eye Associates.