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SriniVas R. Sadda

MD, Professor

Biography

SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Imaging Research at the Doheny Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California?Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. He is the immediate past President of the Doheny Eye Institute. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed his ophthalmology residency and fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology and medical retina at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

Dr. Sadda?s research focuses on retinal image analysis, advanced retinal imaging technologies, and clinical trial endpoint design. He has authored more than 725 peer-reviewed publications, 20 book chapters, and delivered over 500 presentations worldwide. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 7th edition of Ryan?s Retina, serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Graefe?s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, and is on the editorial boards of Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging, Retina, Ophthalmology Retina, Ophthalmology Science, and Ophthalmology.

His awards include the Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award, Senior Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists, Achievement and Secretariat Awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Macula Society?s Young Investigator Award, ASRS Young Investigator Award, APAO Achievement Award, the Paul Henkind Lecture and Award, the Euretina Lecture, the Retina Society Charles Schepens Lecture, and the VRSI Nataraja Pillai Oration. His research is continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health, including two active R01 grants from the National Eye Institute, and he has been listed among the Best Doctors of America for multiple consecutive years.