Practice: Rizzuto Eyelid and Facial Plastic Surgery
Location: Providence, RI, United States
Specialty: Oculofacial Plastics/Reconstructive; Neuro-Ophthalmology
Education: MD, 1990, SUNY Buffalo
Dr. Rizzuto is a graduate of Academy’s LDP, Leadership Development Program, LDP IV, class of 2002. Dr. Rizzuto currently serves the Rhode Island Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons as chair of the Third- Party Payor committee, chair of the Public Information Committee, and chair of the PAC. He previously served as the Academy's secretary for communications (2012-2017), as chief medical editor of the online journal Academy Express, as chairman of the patient education committee, as a member of the secretariat for state affairs, is a past member of the Council (representing Rhode Island) and served as the president of the Rhode Island Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons. He is a past member of the EyeNet editorial advisory board, as well as the Committee for State Organizational Development, and participated in one of the earliest Academy Leadership Development Programs.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Rizzuto is in private practice specializing in oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery in Providence, R.I. He is a clinical professor of surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, the director of the oculoplastic service at the VA medical center in Providence as well as director of the eye service at the Rhode Island Free Clinic.
Dr. Rizzuto received his undergraduate degree from the University at Albany and his medical degree from the University at Buffalo. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and his oculoplastic fellowship at the Kresge Eye Institute in Michigan.