Prof. Dr.Zia Chaudhuri India

Dr (Prof) Zia Chaudhuri is a Professor of Ophthalmology at ABVIMS and Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi, India with sub-speciality training and work experience in strabismus, pediatric ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, cranio-facial anomalies, nystagmus, and ophthalmic genetics. Dr Chaudhuri is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow, UK, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, and the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. She had been a BOYSCAST Fellow (International Research Fellow) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (GOI) at the Jules Stein Eye Institute (JSEI), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, where she trained in acquiring and analyzing high resolution orbital MRI in strabismus in a unique technology transfer module as well as performed her doctoral work on the genetic analysis of strabismus at the University of Delhi, India. Dr Chaudhuri has been principal investigator (PI) of 05 governmentally funded scientific projects on high-resolution orbital imaging in strabismus and strabismus genetics in the Indian population. She has more than 23 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in ophthalmology, and over 150 publications, including editing 08 books in ophthalmology. She received the Best International Research Fellow award 2012 from JSEI, UCLA, the Best of Show poster award at AAPOS 2012 and the Prem Prakash Award at AIOS in 2006 for her work in strabismus. She is the current honorary editor-in-chief of the journal, Strabismus and is on the editorial board of BMC Ophthalmology for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.