OUR PHYSICIANS
JONATHAN B. BELMONT, MD
Fellowships: University of California, Scripps Clinic Residency: Wills Eye Hospital Medical School: Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University Undergraduate: Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Jonathan B. Belmont, FACS is a Board-Certified Ophthalmologist, and a full-time practicing Retinal Specialist. He has been a member of the Wills Eye Hospital Medical Staff and the internationally renowned Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital since 1982. He currently serves as an Attending Surgeon on the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital and is also a member of the medical staff at Abington Hospital, Lansdale Division, and Grand View Hospital.
Dr. Belmont is the son of an ophthalmologist (Owen Belmont, MD) and was born and raised in the East Oak Lane section of Philadelphia. He attended Central High School, graduating second in his class at age 16. Dr. Belmont received his Bachelors of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, graduating in 1976 at the age of 21. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Lankenau Hospital in 1977 and completed his Ophthalmology Residency at Wills Eye Hospital in 1980. He was awarded a National Institute of Health Training Grant, and subsequently completed a Uveitis Fellowship at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation of the University of California, and then completed two Vitreoretinal Fellowships; the first with Dr. George Hilton at the University of California in San Francisco, and the second at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.
ROBERT C. KLEINER, MD
Fellowships: Emory University; Johns Hopkins University, Wilmer Eye Institute Residency: University of Pennsylvania, Scheie Eye Institute Medical School: Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate: Princeton University
Dr. Robert Kleiner is a Philadelphia native, a board-certified ophthalmologist, and a member of the Wills Eye Hospital medical staff and Wills Eye Retina Service since 1989. After winning a National Honor Society scholarship he graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society. He received his medical doctor degree from Johns Hopkins University where he graduated at the top of his class, was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and received the Mosby Award for Scholastic Excellence. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a year of fellowship in retinal diseases at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital where he received the prestigious Heed Fellowship Award and a year of surgical retina fellowship at Emory University where he received the prestigious Heed Knapp Fellowship Award.
