Dr Jyotirmay Biswas is an ophthalmologist who has specialized in uveitis and ophthalmic pathology. He has done MBBS from Medical College, Calcutta and post graduation in ophthalmology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery from Sankara Nethralaya. He did two years fellowship in ophthalmic pathology from Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, USA.

He has published 261 articles in peer reviewed journals, 40 chapters in books of ophthalmology. He presented 29 papers in international conferences and 158 papers in national and state conferences. He had given 260 lectures in international and national conferences.

He has received 25 awards which includes Hari OM Ashram award for clinical research from Medical Council of India.

He is a member of International Uveitis Study Group and executive council member of International Ocular Inflammation Society. He was the first to describe ocular lesions in AIDS in India and published many articles. His current area of research is ocular tuberculosis, AIDS and Eales' disease.

Currently he is working as director of uveitis and ophthalmic pathology departments at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. Dr Biswas also a marathon runner recites Bengali poems and writes Bengali articles and received many awards.

Email: drjb@snmail.org / drjb_uveitis@yahoo.co.in

Tel: 91-044-28271302

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