Netan Choudhry

About Netan Choudhry

Founder and medical director of Vitreous Retina Macula Specialists of Toronto, ON, Canada

Choudhry is an internationally recognized and renowned vitreoretinal surgeon, with affiliations at both the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School, and is a faculty member at the Cleveland Clinic Canada (in Toronto). A leader in retinal imaging and the diagnosis and treatment of rare disorders of the retina and vitreous, Choudhry was the first to pioneer OCT imaging of the peripheral retina, and he is actively developing novel devices for imaging the retina and vitreous using non-invasive technology. Choudhry has published several book chapters in retinal medicine and wide-field imaging and has received research grants to investigate diabetic retinopathy, AMD, macular holes/puckers and uncommon conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular telangiectasia. In his spare time, he enjoys going to hockey games with his wife and three children.

A nominator said: “Netan Choudhry has become a pioneer in OCT retinal imaging over the last several years. He has developed novel techniques and helped image the retinal periphery as never before seen. He had a landmark publication in Ophthalmology in 2016 and has followed up with a swept-source OCT evaluation of the retinal periphery. Choudhry is changing the way we view the retinal periphery, and how we use our OCT machines.”