Choroidal Disorders

Jay Chhablani is a vitreo-retina specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Eye Center, United States. He completed a clinical vitreo-retina fellowship from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India and was an International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) fellow at Jules Gonin Eye Hospital, Switzerland, in 2009. He was previously a Clinical Instructor at the Jacobs Retina Center at Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego. His areas of interest are macular disorders and recent imaging techniques. He has published more than 470 articles in peer-reviewed journals with a focus in the field of choroid. He is the editor of four books and is on the reviewing boards of journals including Science Translational Medicine and The Lancet. He is also on the editorial board of several journals including American Journal of Ophthalmology. He has won several national and international awards.

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,USA.

Dr. Ruiz-Medrano works as a Retina & Oncology Fellow at Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained his Degree in Medicine from the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain in 2011. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at Clínico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid and was awarded his European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma in 2016. An active researcher, he has published investigation papers in peer-reviewed high impact journals and he has authored several chapters in international books. He has received investigation grants and prizes from the Spanish Retina & Vitreous Society, Rementería Foundation and Castroviejo Ophthalmic Research Institute. His research interests include advanced retinal and choroidal image analysis, and he is currently working on a PhD on the study of the normal choroid using Swept-Source optical coherence tomography.

Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Fondation Asile des Aveugles, Lausanne, Switzerland