Nicholas Butler, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute’s Division of Ocular Immunology, where he sees patients with intraocular inflammation in addition to general ophthalmological disease.

After graduating from Amherst College, Dr. Butler pursued medical training at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada. He then completed residency in ophthalmology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Upon graduating, he and his wife spent six months in Tamil Nadu, India, implementing a community health worker training program among a local, tribal population and offering medical and surgical care to indigent patients with eye disease.

Dr. Butler obtained subspecialty training in uveitis and ocular immunology at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, where he developed research interests in the pathogenesis and treatment of uveitic cystoid macular edema and infectious causes of uveitis.  Dr. Butler has a continued interest in international ophthalmology as a volunteer clinician and as an educator and researcher.

Dr Butler sees uveitis and ocular immunology patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute's  Johns Hopkins Hospital and Wyman Park locations.

For appointments at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, call: 410-955-2966

For appointments at Wyman Park, call: 410-338-3169