Dr. W. Zachery Bridges Jr., MD

About Dr. Bridges

W. Zachery Bridges Jr., MD, is an ophthalmologist at Asheville Eye Associates in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Bridges graduated from Southern Methodist University before going on to earn his medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in 1991. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, an ophthalmology residency at Emory University School of Medicine, where he was chief resident in 1994, and a vitreo-retinal fellowship at Emory. He is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

He is on the medical staff of Mission Hospitals and serves as a consulting associate with Duke University Medical School and the Asheville VA Medical Center. As of the 2015-16 list, he had been named among the Top Doctors in America by Best Doctors, Inc. since 2007. He has served as Chief Medical Officer of Western Carolina Clinical Research, LLC. Dr. Bridges has co-authored at least 2 research papers indexed in PubMed, including the 2024 study "Phase I DAVIO Trial: EYP-1901 Bioerodible, Sustained-Delivery Vorolanib Insert in Patients With Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration," published in Ophthalmology Science.