VisionAmerica - Athens, AL
1207 East Forrest Street
Athens, AL 35611
Phone: (256) 216-5860
Fax: (256) 216-5862
Toll Free: (877) 365-3092
Brian C. Mulrooney, M.D.
Arnett Carraby, M.D.
Brian C. Mulrooney, M.D.
Anterior Segment Surgeon
Cataract Specialist
Fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery
Board Certified
bmulrooney@eyehealthpartners.com
Dr. Mulrooney specializes in general ophthalmology and cataract surgery. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Memphis in 1990 and went on to pursue his Medical Doctor degree at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1995.
Upon graduation, he completed a one year Transitional Internship at Methodist Hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee before moving to Kansas City, Kansas to pursue a three year Ophthalmology residency at the University of Kansas. Once he completed his residency, he moved back to Tennessee where he completed a one year Ophthalmic Plastic Surgical Fellowship with Ophthalmic Plastic Surgical Associates.
After Dr. Mulrooney completed his fellowship, he moved back to Kansas to serve as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and as the Director of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgical Service. He served at the University of Kansas until he joined VisionAmerica in October 2004 as the Athens cataracts surgeon.
Dr. Mulrooney is board certified with the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has also authored ophthalmologic publications.
Dr. Mulrooney is married and has two young children.
Arnett Carraby, M.D.
Anterior Segment Surgeon
Cataract Specialist
Board Certified
acarraby@eyehealthpartners.com
Dr. Arnett Carraby is a board-certified ophthalmologist and a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology specializing in the medical and surgical treatment of the anterior segment of the eye, with a focus on cataract surgery. Dr. Carraby also performs laser refractive surgery (custom, wavefront-guided LASIK, & PRK).
A native of Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Carraby pursued his undergraduate college education at Harvard University and Occidental College in Los Angeles where he graduated Cum Laude with honors in biochemistry. He matriculated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine (now called the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) where he received his Medical Doctor (M.D.) degree with honors in 1981. He completed his ophthalmology residency training at the prestigious University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Hospitals & Clinics in 1985. Further studies in ophthalmology were also completed at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Harvard University in Boston.
Dr. Carraby is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is a past president of the Charles R. Drew Medical Society of Los Angeles in 1996 & 1997. He is a former national delegate with the National Medical Association, and past Chairman of the Surgery Departments at Lea Regional Medical Center in New Mexico and at Bay Harbor Hospital in California. Dr. Carraby is a recipient of an America's Top Ophthalmologists Award from the Consumer Research Council of America in 2002, and in 2009-2012.
Dr. Carraby resides in Florence, AL with his wife and daughter.