Jay Chhablani, MD

  • Professor of Ophthalmology
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Medical Retina and Vitreoretinal Surgery

A Conversation With Dr. Chhablani

Jay Chhablani is a Professor of Ophthalmology and a Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. He is the Director of Clinical Research at the UPMC Vision Institute. He established the “Choroid Analysis and Research (CAR) Lab” at the University of Pittsburgh which focuses on computational as well as biological research in the field of choroid. His areas of interest are macular disorders, artificial intelligence, automated retinal image analysis and advanced imaging techniques. He has been consistently funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and various foundations. He has published more than 590 articles in peer-reviewed journals with a focus in the field of choroid. He is the editor of books “Choroidal Disorders”, “Central Serous Chorioretinopathy” and “Choroidal Neovascularization”. He is on the reviewing boards of all high-impact journals including Science Translational Medicine and Lancet. He is also on the editorial board of several journals including the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He serves on the `grant reviewing board of various funding agencies. He is a member of many esteemed societies such as the Macula Society and Gonin Club. He is a member of various scientific committees in various national and international societies including the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has delivered more than 200 invited lectures and has been invited for visiting professorship by many universities around the world. He has won several national and international awards and delivered multiple named lectures.  

Clinical Emphasis
Macular disorders - age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and central serous chorioretinopathy
Vitreo-retinal surgery - macular hole repair, diabetic vitrectomy, and retinal detachment repair

Research Emphasis 
Retinal Imaging and clinical applications

Education & Training

  • Medical School - Pt JNM Medical College, India
  • Residency - Kasturba Medical College, India
  • Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship - Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai
  • Medical Retina Fellowship - University of California, San Diego

Representative Publications

Research Interests

Clinical research

  • Choroidal diseases such as Central Serous Chorioretinopathy, Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
  • Newer anti-VEGF drugs in retinal disease such as ziv-aflibercept
  • Newer imaging modalities such as OCT angiography
  • Imaging biomarkers for various retinal and choroidal diseases

 

Image processing

  • Development of various automated algorithms for choroidal image analysis
  • Machine learning algorithms for various macular diseases using multimodal imaging modalities

 

Surgery

  • Newer techniques for macular hole repair
  • ​Intraoperative optical coherence tomography

 

Basic research

  • Proteomics and genomics in Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Proteomics and genomics in surgical-removed epiretinal and internal limiting membranes 
  • Proteomics and genomics in Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
  • Proteomics in age-related macular degeneration