Jay Chhablani MD

Jay Chhablani is a vitreo-retina specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Eye Center, Pittsburgh, USA. He completed a clinical vitreo-retina fellowship from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India, and was an International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) fellow at Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, Switzerland, in 2009. He was a Clinical Instructor at the Jacobs Retina Center at Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego, USA (2010-2012) before joining the faculty at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India (2012-19).

His areas of interest are macular disorders and recent imaging techniques. He published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals with a focus on the field of the choroid. He is the editor of the 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 is a member of the Macula Society and a member of various committees in international societies including the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has won several national and international awards and delivered the inaugural Ian Constable lecture at the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-Retina Society in 2016. He received Inaugural Namperumalsamy Young Researcher Award in 2018, presented by the Vitreo-Retina Society of India.