Matthew Giegengack

Dr. Matthew Giegengack is currently an associate professor at Wake Forest University Eye Center and the co-director of the Wake Forest cornea fellowship program. Dr. Giegengack received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and completed medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, followed by an ophthalmology residency and fellowship at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, OR. He joined the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2007 and has become one of the busiest cornea transplant surgeons in North Carolina, performing DSEK surgery for the entirety of his career, and DMEK for appropriate cases since 2014.

Dr. Giegengack has been a medical director for SightLife Eye Bank, and has been involved in SightLife’s global outreach, teaching and performing cornea surgery in India, Nepal, Honduras, and Ethiopia. He currently serves as co-medical director for CorneaGen, Inc.