Royce R. Syracuse, MD, MBA

Dr. Syracuse earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at New York’s Hofstra University and a Master of Science degree at Roswell Park Cancer Institute at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He received his Medical Degree at SUNY Buffalo. During his Senior year of medical school, Dr. Syracuse attended and completed the United States Army School of Aviation medicine at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Dr. Syracuse completed an Internal Medicine internship at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore before completing a residency in Ophthalmology at SUNY Buffalo. While working at Horizon Eye Care, Dr. Syracuse earned his Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Wake Forest University School of Business.

Throughout his ophthalmology career, Dr. Syracuse has conducted numerous educational lectures in New York and North Carolina. He spent seven years in the New York State Army National Guard where he served as an Army flight surgeon and was discharged with the rank of Captain. He was one of the first ophthalmologists in Charlotte to perform laser cataract surgery with the femtosecond laser. He has been a member of both the Horizon Eye Care Board of Directors as well as Novant Hospital’s credentialing and outpatient surgery center committees. He recently completed a three-year tenure as Novant Hospital’s Chief of Ophthalmology. During his attendance at the Wake Forest School of Business, he was one of the founding members of the Wake Forest School of Business MD/MBA Society. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, North Carolina Eye Society, and the North Carolina Medical Society.