Diane Hilal-Campo, MD
Diane Hilal-Campo, MD, is the founder of twenty/twenty and a board-certified ophthalmologist in private practice in Oakland, NJ, where she has been diagnosing and treating eye conditions for 25 years. She is renowned for her expertise in correcting a wide range of disorders of the eye, both medically and surgically.
Medicine has been a part of Dr. Hilal-Campo’s life since she was a child. Her father, Dr. Sadek Hilal, was a pioneering neuroradiologist, chief of the department of Neuroradiology at Columbia, and past presidents of both the American Society of Neuroradiology and the International Society of Neuroradiology. She first became passionate about eye care when she was diagnosed with nearsightedness by Dr. Stephen Trokel, a developer of the excimer laser later used for corrective eye surgery, at a young age. “When I looked through my new glasses and saw how beautiful the individual leaves that I could not see before, on trees were, how beautiful the world was, it changed my life,” recalls Dr. Hilal-Campo. All these factors, combined with her natural dexterity with fine needlepoint work, made ophthalmology a logical career path.
Dr. Hilal-Campo graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University as a member of the institution’s first fully co-educational class. After receiving her MD from Columbia, she completed her internship in internal medicine there, then finished her residency in ophthalmology at New York City’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.
In addition to her work at her New Jersey practice, Dr. Hilal-Campo stays active in the medical community via memberships in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and Women in Ophthalmology. She is also a founding member of a local organization for female ophthalmologists in New Jersey. When time allows, Dr. Hilal-Campo is honored to be able to use her surgical expertise to help support underserved communities around the world. She has participated in surgical mission trips to India and in Africa to perform cataract surgery on those in need.
Dr. Hilal-Campo’s beauty brand, twenty/twenty, debuted in 2021. Twenty/twenty is a line of eye-friendly formulas designed to enhance the eyes’ natural beauty without causing irritation or sensitivity or damage to the delicate eye glands and ocular surface. Each product has undergone rigorous clinical testing to ensure they don’t disrupt, but rather support, the delicate ecosystem of the eye. The entirety of the twenty/twenty collection is ophthalmologist-tested and approved, in addition to being safe for contact lens wearers.