Dr. Mahmoud has been on the list of Best Doctors in America since 2009 and Castle Connolly Top Doctors in Ophthalmology. He is a co-founder of the Duke Fellows Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course and the North Carolina Retina Club. He served on the national Therapeutic Safety Committee (TSC) for monitoring of drugs and devices and was the program director of the Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship at the Kresge Eye Institute in Michigan before moving back to Duke in 2011. Wayne State University-Kresge Eye Institute established the “Tamer H. Mahmoud, MD Endowed Fellowship Research Award” in 2012.