Dr. Barry Leader, M.D., is a highly experienced and respected comprehensive ophthalmologist, who has practiced throughout Uptown New Orleans and Metairie for three decades and counting. Dr. Leader is known throughout the New Orleans medical community for being the first ophthalmologist to serve as Touro Infirmary’s president of medical staff throughout its more than 150-year history, in addition to serving as the president of the medical staff at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital from 1993 until 1995. Most recently, Dr. Leader was named one of 2022’s top five comprehensive ophthalmologists in the Orleans/Jefferson Parish area by Inside New Orleans Magazine.