Jay Chhablani is a vitreo-retinal surgeon whose 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 and on the editorial board of several journals including the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Chhablani serves on the grant reviewing board of various funding agencies and 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 and has won several national and international awards and delivered multiple named lectures.
- University of California, San Diego, Medical Retina Fellowship
- Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship
- Kasturba Medical College, India, Residency
- Pt JNM Medical College, India, MD
Education & Training
Salivary steroids in acute central serous chorioretinopathy. Maltsev DS, Kulikov AN, Vasiliev AS, Chhablani J. Int Ophthalmol. 2025 Jan 29;45(1):49. doi: 10.1007/s10792-025-03422-8.
An update on ocular effects of antidiabetic medications. Sadeghi E, Rahmanipour E, Valsecchi N, Kapoor S, Cicinelli MV, Chhablani J. Surv Ophthalmol. 2025 Jan 22:S0039-6257(25)00019-0. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2025.01.010.
Anatomical and functional changes after internal limiting membrane peeling. Sadeghi E, Colorado-Zavala MF, Almuhtaseb H, Venkatesh R, Parolini B, Chhablani J. Surv Ophthalmol. 2025 Jan 20:S0039-6257(25)00018-9. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2025.01.008.
Coats-Like reaction post-vitreoretinal surgery for PDR managed with laser photocoagulation and adjunctive intravitreal steroids- a case report. Godani K, Vidyasagar S, Biradar P, Prabhu V, Hande P, Gandhi P, Kathare R, Chhablani J, Venkatesh R. BMC Ophthalmol. 2025 Jan 21;25(1):32. doi: 10.1186/s12886-025-03876-5.
Wide field imaging biomarkers: A different perspective. Shiromani S, Pattathil N, Sadeghi E, Choudhry N, Chhablani J. Taiwan J Ophthalmol. 2024 Dec 20;14(4):510-518. doi: 10.4103/tjo.TJO-D-24-00125. eCollection 2024 Oct-Dec.
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