Retina Consultants of America Announces Addition of Mississippi Retina Associates

Retina Consultants of America (RCA) has added Mississippi Retina Associates (MRA) to its national consortium.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The addition of MRA adds to RCA’s presence in the southeastern United States, which includes Tennessee Retina Associates, Palmetto Retina Center, North Carolina Retina Associates, Retina Group of Florida, and Retina Associates of Sarasota. MRA is the 19th practice to join RCA since it began in January 2020.

MRA has served patients for more than 35 years and is the state’s largest retina practice. Its 10 clinic locations include Starkville, Hattiesburg, Jackson, and Greenville, and its physicians provide care for patients from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee. MRA includes four board-certified physicians, including Dr. David Kilpatrick, who joined MRA in 2020. He is MRA’s newest physician and now works alongside Dr. Michael Borne, Dr. Joel Herring, and Dr. Jay Brown.

“We are delighted to welcome Mississippi Retina Associates as our newest partners in Retina Consultants of America,” said Carl C. Awh, MD, FASRS, President of Tennessee Retina and the immediate past-President of the American Society of Retina Specialists. “We look forward to collaborating with these outstanding retina specialists to improve the lives of our patients through uncompromising, compassionate clinical care and through cutting-edge clinical research.”  

Inclusive of MRA, RCA now has a total of more than 160 physicians and more than 1,600 employees. Formed by Webster Equity Partners and based in Southlake, Texas, RCA is partnering with leading retina specialists who seek a strategic partner with the capital resources and expertise to invest in their practice infrastructure and position them for continued growth in their markets.