Jodhbir Mehta

Dr. Mehta is a leading clinician and researcher on external corneal diseases. His research interests cover all aspects of corneal external disease and refractive surgery, from basic science to translational and clinical research. These include investigating new stem cell-based therapies and studies on patients with corneal genetic disorders. His translational research involves the development of an artificial cornea device, new instruments for corneal transplantation to improve patient outcomes, and effects of femtosecond lasers in corneal/refractive surgery as well as the development of novel drug delivery devices. He is a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK, the Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Singapore-Malaysian Ophthalmology Society, and the Asian Corneal Society. Dr. Mehta graduated from Guys and St Thomas’s Medical School, University of London, the UK in 1995.