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Nisha Acharya

Nisha Acharya MD

Ophthalmology
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Nisha Acharya, MD, MS is the Elizabeth C. Proctor Professor of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology at the University of California San Francisco and Director of the Uveitis Service and Uveitis Fellowship at the F.I. Proctor Foundation. Dr. Acharya’s clinical focus is uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases. Her research interests include epidemiology of ocular inflammatory conditions and clinical trials comparing efficacy of various treatments.

Dr. Acharya is PI of the NIH-funded First-line Antimetabolites for Steroid-Sparing Treatment (FAST) Trial, a multicenter randomized trial comparing antimetabolite therapies for uveitis. She is also protocol co-chair for the Macular Edema Ranibizumab v. Intravitreal anti-inflammatory Therapy (MERIT) Trial through the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment research group and is part of the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature working group. Dr. Acharya serves on the executive committee of the American Uveitis Society and is also chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Knowledge Base Panel for Uveitis.

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