Ruth Tessema
Howard County Medical Pavilion
Office
(410) 910-2330
Fax (410) 910-2393 10710 Charter Drive Suite 310 Columbia, MD 21044
Primary Specialty
Ophthalmologist
Practice
Howard County Medical Pavilion
Gender
Female
About
Ruth Tessema
Ruth Tessema, M.D., is an ophthalmologist at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine Howard County and Frederick locations. She earned her medical degree from Howard University and completed her ophthalmology residency at the UC Davis Eye Center. Before joining the Wilmer Eye Institute, she worked as an ophthalmologist with Kaiser Permanente in California. A lifelong interest in science and a passion for helping people live healthy, full lives led Dr. Tessema into medicine and the field of ophthalmology. She approaches care with the recognition that eyesight is vital to patient well-being and independence, and she strives to be a patient advocate, to remove systemic barriers to quality care and to protect the health and dignity of everyone she works with. Dr. Tessema has clinical experience in cataract surgery, glaucoma management, diabetic eye disease, dry eye treatment, and eyelid and ocular surface disorders.Services
Ruth Tessema practices in Columbia, MD. Ophthalmologists examine and treat common vision disorders, eye injuries and eye diseases. Ophthalmologists such as Ruth Tessema are licensed medical doctors and can prescribe medication as well as perform eye surgery.To determine if Ruth Tessema can help you, please call the Columbia, MD office at (410) 910-2330 for more information.