Ramesh S. Ayyala, M.D.

is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and is Director of the Glaucoma Service and Director of the Residency Program and the Glaucoma/Anterior Segment Fellowship Program..

He completed his residency training at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He continued his postgraduate education with a glaucoma fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston and a Cornea and External Diseases fellowship at the Boston Medical Center. Prior to coming to the United States, Dr. Ayyala received ophthalmology training in the United Kingdom between 1989-93 and has passed the prestigious FRCS examinations from the Royal College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom and has been conferred with the Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

During his medical school training in India, Dr. Ayyala was the recipient of a National Merit Scholarship awarded by the government of India between 1979-84. He has been active in research and has published in the major ophthalmology journals. His main research interests include glaucoma drainage devices and wound healing.

Dr. Ayyala's other passion is community ophthalmology. He has taken part in a number of eye camps in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh during his medical school years. He was actively involved with the free eye clinic run by the Prevent Blindness Society, Massachusetts section, in Boston during his Cornea and External Disease fellowship.

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