Joseph W. Spadafora, D.O. is the Medical Director of Community Eye Center.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Boston University, followed by graduate work at the University Of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. He received his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Kansas City, MO.

Dr. Spadafora completed his Internship at Metropolitan General Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, and his Ophthalmology Residency at the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa, OK, where he was awarded the Mead Johnson Fellowship Grant, the Burroughs Welcome Fellowship Grant and the Fellowship Anterior Segment Surgery Long Beach, CA.

He is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Dr. Spadafora is Board Certified and a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Charlotte County Medical Society and the Florida Medical Association.

Dr. Spadafora is affiliated with all area hospitals and is the past-chairman of the St. Joseph’s Physicians Hospital Organization. Dr. Spadafora is on the hospital’s Foundation Board and serves on the Board of Governors of Prevent Blindness Florida.

Dr. Spadafora has performed national research in ocular anti- inflammatory agents, glaucoma medications, ocular antibiotic agents, and laser cataract extraction at St. Lucy’s Outpatient Surgery Center.