With Board Certified Ophthalmologists and Optometrists, we can service all our patient’s eyecare needs. Our locations include Gainesville, Braselton, Clayton, Cornelia, Hamilton Mill/Dacula and Cumming. He was also recently named one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly, the healthcare research company that compiles Atlanta magazine’s annual Top Doctors list.North Georgia Eye Associates has been a premiere eye care provider in North Georgia for over sixty years. Stallman received the 2009 “Beacon of Hope Award” for service to the uninsured and underinsured. Stallman lives in Atlanta with his wife, Jane, and two daughters who are both physician assistants.ĭr. He practices and teaches the martial art of aikido, in which he holds a sixth degree black belt and the title of shidoin (an instructor level certification from Japan). Stallman also enjoys fly-fishing, SCUBA diving, and photography. He is a member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, which is a group that promotes the understanding of the techniques and skills of period workmanship as well as scholarly study of the history of decorative arts. Stallman spends his free time crafting period furniture including carving, inlay, and veneer work.

He also participates in the National Eye Care Project. Dr. Stallman has volunteered in the community by serving as chair for the 2010 Lions Lighthouse Night of Spectacles, a large fundraiser for Lions Lighthouse that allows the organization to provide eye care to those in need. It is a testament to the fine training and diversity of backgrounds of the group,” he said. “The discussions that the partners have is stimulating and generate some of the best ideas. Apart from this, he notes that there is a wonderful collegiality and respect shared among the partners at Georgia Retina. Stallman notes that helping people comes first on his list. When asked about the most rewarding aspect of his career, Dr. Stallman currently serves as medical director of the Georgia Retina Surgery Center. He has served as visiting faculty with Orbis International in China and the Philippines, and has been a speaker at numerous professional meetings both nationally and internationally. He has been the principal investigator of large multicenter clinical trials conducted at Georgia Retina. He serves as a regular editorial reviewer of articles submitted for publication to the journal Retina as well as the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and has published articles in several professional journals. Stallman is a board-certified ophthalmologist and has been in private practice as a vitreoretinal specialist since 1990. He enjoys developing new procedures and designing innovative instruments.ĭr. Stallman to combine both creativity and surgery together. With an eye for fine and detailed work, the technology of vitreoretinal microsurgery allows Dr. Stallman chose his particular specialty because he enjoys the combination of the long-term relationship with patients and the opportunity to both restore and preserve vision for his patients. Stallman was originally inspired to enter into medicine by his grandfather who was a family practice physician. Stallman has been named one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly every year since 2012.ĭr. After his residency in ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, he completed a two-year fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans. Stallman was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Graduating with the highest honors from the combined six-year program of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Stallman grew up in Forest Hills, New York.

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