Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

by James R. Writer

SCEI is a leading source for comprehensive glaucoma management, offering state-of-the-art eye care and the broadest range of specialties and treatments. Dr. Varma is UCLA's first Gold Humanism Honor Service Award Recipient and serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. SCEI also delivers world-class educational outreach programs to local communities, including free Glaucoma Screenings, Low Vision Support Groups, Community Eye Care Clinics and more. Dr. Varma is one of the only Board-Certified Glaucoma specialists in Los Angeles who performs advanced glaucoma surgeries on a regular basis. He has served as the Director of Surgical Programs at CHA and boasts a remarkable surgical record including corneal transplants, Trabectome for angle closure glaucoma, tube shunts for nerve palsy and lowering eye pressures, and surgeries such as cataract removal, clear lens replacement, and open angle glaucoma procedures. Rohit Varma is the writer of 3 bestselling books on eye disease, Dr. Varma's research has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC Nightly News and TV Asia. He serves on several national committees that set vision research priorities for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Varma is an elected member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), and is a former president of the Asian Ophthalmology Society. Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, is the Chief of Ophthalmology at Stanford University in California.

As Director of the Stanford Global Disease Mapping initiative and the Center for Surgery and Public Health, he aims to address global health problems that result from disease and socioeconomic development. This has led him to conduct epidemiological studies throughout Africa on blinding diseases and water quality. Every year, millions of people suffer from disabling eye disease. A clinical ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the Duke University Medical Center, Rohit Varma has made advancing understanding of blinding eye diseases his life's work. Using basic science, clinical research and epidemiology, he elucidates pathways leading to disease and dysfunction of the visual process with a focus on protecting human vision worldwide.

Dr. Rohit Varma Achievements

Rohit Varma, Ph.D., is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He is a Professor and the Mary Lou Fulton Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Rohit Varma, M.D the renowned vision expert, has been helping people see better for more than four decades—and his passion and dedication to his work shows no signs of slowing. Dr. Varma is a founding partner of the Eye Institute of New Jersey and has been practicing at dozens of locations across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut since his residency training at Columbia University—which also awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Rohit Varma, MD, PhD is an accomplished ophthalmologist and internationally recognized scientist. He has over 30 years of teaching experience at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and serves as professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Varma is renowned for his research involving intraocular pressure, glaucoma, obesity-related eye disease, digital health technology and optics. Key board members include Rohit Varma, John C. Aydin, M.D., James K. Barfield and Carl R. Pfeiffer, M.D.

Research in Good Leadership

Rohit Varma, M.D., has been named the Samuel T. Orr, M.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and director of the Eye & Ear Institute. He will oversee the seven-year project that, when completed, will result in a 500,000-square-foot eye-care facility on USC's Health Sciences Campus in southwest Los Angeles. The project represents a $400 million investment by USC and its corporate partner, NovaMed Inc., an ophthalmic products and systems company based in Torrance that is affiliated with USC's Rosenthal Eye Institute.

Rohit Varma, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized ophthalmologist and entrepreneur. After completing his residency in ophthalmology at the internationally renowned Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, both located in Baltimore, he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, is a retinal surgeon who specializes in glaucoma. During his fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Dr. Rohit Varma developed a unique approach to glaucoma surgery known as "single-site" trabeculectomy. This innovative technique involves creating a single-entry point for both the internal drainage tubes and external shunt devices.