Balwantray C. Chauhan PhD, BSc, PDF

Balwantray Chauhan is Mathers Professor and Research Director of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Dalhousie University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, and his postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, under Dr. Stephen Drance.

Dr. Chauhan’s clinical research interests center on changes in the visual field and optic nerve head in glaucoma. He has devised new strategies for detecting glaucomatous progression and conducted research leading to their translation to clinical practice. A key contribution in this area is the Topographical Change Analysis (TCA), used for identifying changes in optic nerve head topography with imaging techniques.