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SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, FARVO

Director, Artificial Intelligence & Imaging Research
Doheny Eye Institute
Pasadena, CA
Professor of Ophthalmology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, FARVO, is the director of artificial intelligence & imaging research at the Doheny Eye Institute and professor of ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the immediate past president of the Doheny Eye Institute. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed an ophthalmology residency and neuro-ophthalmology and medical retina fellowships at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

Dr Sadda’s major research interests include retinal image analysis, advanced retinal imaging technologies, and clinical trial end point design. He has more than 680 peer-reviewed publications and 20 book chapters, and he has given more than 450 presentations worldwide. 

He is the editor in chief of the 7th edition of Ryan’s Retina. He also serves as an editor in chief of Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and is an editorial board member of Ophthalmology; Ophthalmology Retina; Ophthalmology Science; Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina; and RETINA

Among Dr Sadda’s awards and honors are a Physician-Scientist Award from Research to Prevent Blindness; a Senior Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists; an Achievement Award and a Secretariat Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology; a John H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Award; a Young Investigator Award, a W. Richard Green Lecture, and a Paul Henkind Memorial Lecture from the Macula Society; a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists; an Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award; the Vitreo Retina Society of India Nataraja Pillai Oration; and the Euretina Lecture. He is also a Gold Fellow and Trustee (Retina) for The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and president-elect of the Macula Society. Dr Sadda’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for several years, including a current R01 grant from the National Eye Institute. He has been named to the "Best Doctors of America" list for several consecutive years.