Dr Jay Chhablani is currently the Vice Chair of Clinical Trials; Director, Clinical Research at the UPMC Vision Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburg. He completed clinical vitreo-retina fellowship from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India. He was an International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) fellow at Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, Switzerland, in 2009 and a Clinical Instructor at the Jacobs Retina Center at Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego, USA (2010 to 2012) before he joined L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India as faculty (2012-19). His interests are macular disorders, artificial intelligence, automated retinal image analysis and advanced imaging techniques. He has published more than 590 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 and on the editorial board of several journals including the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Chhablani serves on the grant reviewing board of various funding agencies and 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 and has won several national and international awards and delivered multiple named lectures. He has delivered inaugural Ian Constable lecture at Asia-Pacific Vitreo-Retina Society in 2016. He received Inaugural Namperumalsamy Young Researcher Award in 2018 by Vitreo-Retina Society of India.
