Dr. Martin Lederman graduated from Brooklyn College, cum laude with a bachelor's degree in biology. He earned his M.D. degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed a medical internship at the Montefiore Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx. He returned to Albert Einstein for his residency in Ophthalmology and became Chief Resident and clinical instructor in his last year. He then went to Washington, D.C. for a one year Fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center.

       He remained on the staff of the Children's Hospital as well as on the faculty of George Washington Medical School and Georgetown Medical School until 1984. In addition to his private practice and  teaching responsibilities, he worked at the National Eye Institute, became Chairman of the Ophthalmic Drug Advisory Committee of the Food And Drug Administration (FDA), developed and headed the electrophysiology laboratory at Children's Hospital and served on the Board of Directors of several local and national organizations devoted to serving children and preventing blindness. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and is a charter member of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.

       He returned to New York in 1984 and opened an office in White Plains, New York. He joined the faculties of the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital and is an Associate Professor.  He is also on the Faculty of the New York Medical College. He is on the staff of White Plains Hospital and Stamford Hospital and is a consultant at Blythedale Children's Hospital. He is the president or past president of several local and national organizations and has held numerous committee and Board of Directors positions. He helped found and served as first president of the Greater New York Society for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and the New York Eye Physicians Network.

       Dr. Lederman is particularly interested in improving care to the world's children and has headed teaching and surgical missions to Panama, Kenya, and Morocco with the group "Healing The Children" and serves on the Medical Advisory Board. His most active interest remains his practice in Purchase, New York and Stamford, Connecticut which he shares with his daughter, Dr. Carolyn Lederman, and Dr. Jeffrey Bloom.