Dr. Benjamin M Teller OD

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Get to know Optometrist Dr. Benjamin Teller, who serves patients in Maryland

A world renown optometrist, Dr. Teller is the Co-Founder of Eye RX, which he founded alongside his late business partner, Dr. Jack McTigue. He continues to serve patients in the D.C. area and has dedicated his career to providing patients and their families with comprehensive and visionary care services.

Eye Rx has two conveniently located offices in Chevy Chase and Washington D.C., making it easy to access world-class eye care services for the entire family. Drs. Teller and Lobaugh have both been practicing optometry in the Washington-Baltimore area for more than 20 years, providing comprehensive eye care, diagnosing, treating, and managing eye diseases, and fitting contact lenses, particularly specialty lenses.

He has extensive backgrounds in both contact lenses and pre and post-operative ophthalmic surgical care. He is also familiar with a wide range of eye diseases, and can accurately pinpoint the cause of ocular problems before creating a tailored treatment or management plan to suit a patient’s particular needs.

Dr. Teller earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1996 and has been helping local and global residents see clearly ever since. After graduation, he completed an internship with the Hopewell Valley Eye Associates, as well as several externships with the National Naval Medical Center and Katzen Eye Group.

A proud member of the prestigious National Advisory Eye Council, Dr. Teller works with a team of industry eyecare experts to inform and educate the National Eye Institute on the current landscape of vision medicine research and technology. He is also a member of the American Optometric Association and the National Institutes of Health, National Advisory Eye Council.

Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities, as well as diagnosing and managing eye disease. Optometrists are healthcare professionals who provide primary eye care through comprehensive eye examinations to detect and treat various visual abnormalities and eye diseases. Being a regulated profession, an optometrist’s scope of practice may differ depending on the location. Thus, disorders or diseases detected outside the treatment scope of optometry (i.e. those requiring certain surgical interventions) are referred out to relevant medical professionals for proper care, more commonly to ophthalmologists who are physicians that specialize in the tertiary medical and surgical care of the eye. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals, such as ophthalmologists and opticians, to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.

As a testament to his excellence in the field, Dr. Teller is the recipient of the CRCA Top Optometrist Award.

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