Dr. Nisha Acharya is the Elizabeth C. Proctor Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and Director of the Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease Service at the F.I. Proctor Foundation. She is also the Associate Director of the Proctor Foundation and Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Mentorship in the Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Acharya obtained her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Stanford University, followed by medical school at UCSF. She was an intern at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and completed her ophthalmology residency at Harvard at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She returned to UCSF for fellowship. Dr. Acharya is a clinician-scientist with a clinical focus on uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases. She has an NIH-funded research program that focuses on the design and implementation of international clinical trials and data analytics research on ocular inflammatory diseases. She is a past president of the American Uveitis Society and has received a Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She has also been recognized for her mentorship of medical students with a UCSF Dean’s Mentor Award.
Financial Disclosure: Dr. Acharya has/had affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
- AbbVie
- Roche
- US National Eye Institute
