SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, FARVO

SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Imaging Research at the Doheny Eye Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. He is the immediate past President of the Doheny Eye Institute. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed ophthalmology residency and neuro-ophthalmology and medical retina fellowships (Wilmer Eye Institute).

Dr. Sadda’s major research interests include retinal image analysis, advanced retinal imaging technologies, and clinical trial endpoint design. He has more than 725 peer-reviewed publications and 20 book chapters and has given over 500 presentations worldwide. Dr. Sadda is Editor-in-Chief of the 7th Edition of Ryan’s Retina. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and is an editorial board member of Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging, Retina, Ophthalmology Retina, Ophthalmology Science and Ophthalmology. Among Dr. Sadda’s awards and honors are a Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award, a Senior Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists, an Achievement Award and a Secretariat Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, John H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Award, the Macula Society’s Young Investigator Award, American Society of Retina Specialists Young Investigator Award, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Achievement Award, The Macula Society’s Paul Henkind Lecture and Award, the Euretina Lecture, The Retina Society’s Charles Schepens Lecture, and the Vitreoretinal Society of India Nataraja Pillai Oration. Dr. Sadda’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for several years, including two current R01 grants from the National Eye Institute. He has been named to the Best Doctors of America list for several consecutive years and is also the editor in-chief of the 7th edition of the Ryan’s Retina textbook, and 2024-2025 President for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the Macula Society.

Xie X, Sultan W, Corradetti G, Lee JY, Song A, Pardeshi A, Yu F, Chopra V, Sadda SR, Xu BY, Huang AS. Assessing Accommodative Presbyopic Biometric Changes of The Entire Anterior Segment Using Single Swept-Source OCT Image Acquisitions. Eye (Lond). 2021 Feb 25. doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01363-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33633350.

Wang D, Velaga SB, Grondin C, Au A, Nittala M, Chhablani J, Vupparaboina KK, Gunnemann F, Jung J, Kim JH, Ip M, Sadda S, Sarraf D. Pentosan Polysulfate Maculopathy: Prevalence, Spectrum of Disease, and Choroidal Imaging Analysis Based on Prospective Screening: Pentosan Maculopathy: Disease Spectrum & Choroidal Analysis. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 Feb 27:S0002-9394(21)00090-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2021.02.025. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33651989.

Cheung CMG, Lai TYY, Teo K, Ruamviboonsuk P, Chen SJ, Kim JE, Gomi F, Koh AH, Kokame G, Jordan-Yu JM, Corvi F, Invernizzi A, Ogura Y, Tan C, Mitchell P, Gupta V, Chhablani J, Chakravarthy U, Sadda SR, Wong TY, Staurenghi G, Lee WK. Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy: Consensus Nomenclature and Non-Indocyanine Green Angiograph Diagnostic Criteria from the Asia-Pacific Ocular Imaging Society PCV Workgroup. Ophthalmology. 2021 Mar;128(3):443-452. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.08.006. Epub 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32795496.

Corradetti G, Corvi F, Sadda SR. Subretinal Drusenoid Deposits Revealed by Color SLO and Retro-Mode Imaging. Ophthalmology. 2021 Mar;128(3):409. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.09.038. PMID: 33612167.

Ghasemi Falavarjani K, Anvari P, Dehghan Niri M, Molaei S, Abdi F, Shad E, Kazemi P, Sadda SR. The Effect of Intravitreal Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Injection on Diabetic Tractional Fibrovascular Membranes: Proposed Criteria Using Optical Coherence Tomography. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2021 Mar 2:1120672121998224. doi: 10.1177/1120672121998224. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33653173.

2015  ARVO Silver Fellow
2016  Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
2016  Speaker of the Day, Hawaiian Eye/Retina
2017  Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Achievement Award
2017  The Macula Society Paul Henkind Lecture and Award Recipient
2017  ASRS Presidents’ Young Investigator Award recipient
2017 – 2018  Best Doctors in America
2019 AAO Ophthalmology Seretariat Award
2021 ARVO Gold Fellow
2021  Recipient of the Macula Society Richard Green Award and Lecture
2021  Johns Hopkins Distinguished Medical Alumnus Medical Award Recipient
2022  Dowling Society ARVO Foundation Gala Award Recipient, ARVO
2022  Nataraja Pillai Oration Award
2023  Retina Society Award of Merit in Retina Research Recipient