Joseph Caprioli MD

Dr. Joseph Caprioli currently serves as the Chief of the Glaucoma Division, Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, and David May II Professor at the Jules Stein Eye Institute. He received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, thereafter completing his internship in General Surgery and residency in Ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine. Under the tutelage of Dr. George Spaeth, Dr. Caprioli completed his glaucoma fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.

In addition to his role as the Glaucoma Chief, Dr. Caprioli is the director of both the ophthalmology and international glaucoma fellowship training programs. This fellowship provides graduates with clinical and laboratory experience in glaucoma diagnosis and treatment for careers in academic ophthalmology. In addition, he has trained more than a hundred twenty clinical and research fellows, many of whom now hold full-time faculty positions in major academic centers worldwide.

Dr. Caprioli has taught and published extensively in all aspects of glaucoma diagnosis and treatment, anterior segment surgery, and laser surgery. Furthermore, he has over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications to his credit and serves on the editorial boards of various medical journals such as the American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO), the Journal of Glaucoma (JOG), and the Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science journal (IOVS).