Choroidal Disorders

Jay Chhablani is a Professor of Ophthalmology and a Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. He is the Director of Clinical Research at the UPMC Vision Institute. He established the “Choroid Analysis and Research (CAR) Lab” at the University of Pittsburgh which focuses on computational as well as biological research in the field of choroid. His areas of interest are macular disorders, automated retinal image analysis and advanced imaging techniques. He has been consistently funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and various foundations. He has published more than 550 articles in peer-reviewed journals with a focus in the field of choroid. He is the editor of books “Choroidal Disorders”, “Central Serous Chorioretinopathy” and “Choroidal Neovascularization”. He is on the reviewing boards of all high-impact journals including Science Translational Medicine and Lancet. He is also on the editorial board of several journals including the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He serves on the `grant reviewing board of various funding agencies. He is a member of many esteemed societies such as the Macula Society and Gonin Club. He is a member of various scientific committees in various national and international societies including the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has delivered more than 200 invited lectures and has been invited for visiting professorship by many universities around the world. He has won several national and international awards and delivered multiple named lectures. Dr. Ruiz-Medrano works as a Retina & Oncology Fellow at Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained his Degree in Medicine from the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain in 2011. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at Clínico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid and was awarded his European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma in 2016. An active researcher, he has published investigation papers in peer-reviewed high impact journals and he has authored several chapters in international books. He has received investigation grants and prizes from the Spanish Retina & Vitreous Society, Rementería Foundation and Castroviejo Ophthalmic Research Institute. His research interests include advanced retinal and choroidal image analysis, and he is currently working on a PhD on the study of the normal choroid using Swept-Source optical coherence tomography.