Usha Chakravarthy MD, PhD

Usha Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, is Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published extensively in the management of retinal disorders and has a varied portfolio of research interests, having explored the cell and molecular biology of the retina and its vasculature for many decades.  Her work also extends to the epidemiology and risk factors for retinal diseases, and her present research is focused on the relationships between retinal morphology and function based on invivo high resolution imaging and deep functional testing. These in vivo studies also provide fodder for machine learning and gene association investigations.

She has delivered many eponymous and other invited lectures in the UK and abroad, andwas honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to Ophthalmology and voluntary service to managing eye conditions.