E. Franklin Rawlings, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a board-certified ophthalmologist with more than 25 years of experience in medical and surgical eye care. He has lived and practiced in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area since 1979, with offices in Ocean Springs and Pascagoula.

Dr. Rawlings was the first physician in Mississippi to perform PRK and LASIK.  He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Tulane Medical School.  After completing his residency at Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans, he chose to complete an additional year  of fellowship training at the LSU Eye Center.  Dr. Rawlings has been associated with the teaching program at Tulane University Department of Ophthalmology since 1995 and currently is an attending surgeon at Charity and University Hospitals.  Dr. Rawlings is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the LSU Department of Ophthalmology and the Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.  Dr. Rawlings is actively involved in resident teaching of all forms of refractive surgery – LASIK, PRK, CK, incisional keratotomy, and refractive lens surgery.

Holly E. Bowie, O.D., is a board-certified Therapeutic Optometrist. Dr. Bowie is a Mississippi native and she and her husband currently reside in Gautier.  Dr. Bowie received her undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi.  She is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. and is a member of the Mississippi Optometric Association, American Optometric Association, and the New Orleans Area Contact Lens Society.  She has volunteered her time with medical missions in Guatemala and Peru.

Dr. Bowie is skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of all eye diseases and disorders. She has developed special interest and expertise in the correction of all refractive eye disorders – nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia.

Shehab A. Ebrahim, M.D., was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New Orleans.  After graduating as valedictorian from Jesuit High School in New Orleans, his studies took him to Washington, DC, where he graduated from the Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences and the Georgetown University School of Medicine, with Honors.

During his training, he worked in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Carleton Gadjusek at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Ebrahim earned the “Intern of the Year” award at St. Joseph Hospital and then returned to New Orleans to complete his residency in Ophthalmology at Tulane University, receiving annual awards for excellence in his research.

He then completed a two-year, highly-sought fellowship at Tulane University with world-renowned ophthalmology researcher and vitreoretinal surgeon, Dr. Gholam Peyman, a member of the Ophthalmology “Hall of Fame.”  During this time, Dr. Ebrahim served as the Chief Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow.

He then founded his practice, The Retina Institute, L.L.C., to deliver the finest, most up-to-date retinal care to the patients of Greater New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.