Board-certified in the United States and Canada, Dr. Patel is an associate professor of ophthalmology and director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus Program at the USC Roski Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine. He also serves as the Residency Program director and Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship director at USC. He is currently a board examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is a co-editor of Walsh and Hoyt’s Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology: The Essentials, 3rd Edition, which is widely recognized as one of the pre-eminent textbooks in the field.
Dr. Patel has considerable expertise and experience in the surgical management of complex adult strabismus including the use of adjustable sutures and transposition techniques.
Dr. Patel’s major academic interest is in the study and imaging of the visual pathways. He has considerable expertise and experience in interpreting visual fields, microperimetry, and optical coherence tomography scans, in addition to the clinical evaluation and identification of patients with visual loss due to optic neuropathies and intracranial disorders. Dr. Patel is a co-investigator on a multidisciplinary collaboration involving ultra-high resolution imaging of the visual pathways and how they are affected in various optic nerve and retinal disorders.
USC Roski Eye Institute: Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2015
University of Ottawa Eye Institute: Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2009
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin: Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2008
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California: Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2007
McGill University, Department of Ophthalmology: Leadership Award, 2006
Canadian Space Agency (in conjunction with NASA): Aerospace Medicine Award, 2002
University of Saskatchewan: Top Graduating Student in Neurology, 2001
Ptosis, Miosis, and Intermittent Esotropia Following Pituitary Adenoma Resection JAMA Ophthalmol. 2016; 8(134):941-2. . View in PubMed
When a Temporal Artery Biopsy Reveals a Diagnosis Other Than Temporal Arteritis: Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Can J Ophthalmol. 2016; 3(51):108-9. . View in PubMed
The Second Blind Spot: Small Retinal Vessel Vasculopathy after Vaccination against Neisseria Meningitidis and Yellow Fever Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2016. . View in PubMed
The cerebellum in eye movement control: nystagmus, coordinate frames and disconjugacy Eye (LondonEngland). 2015; 2(29):299. . View in PubMed
Treatment of ocular motor palsies Current treatment options in neurology. 2015; 3(17):338. . View in PubMed
Hiding in plain sight: a closer look at posterior cortical atrophy Practical neurology. 2014; 1(15):5-13. . View in PubMed
Incidence of discordant temporal artery biopsy in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis Canadian journal of ophthalmology Journal canadien d’ophtalmologie. 2014; 2(49):157-61. . View in PubMed
More than just optic disc swelling JAMA ophthalmology. 2013; 11(131):1477-8. . View in PubMed
Intracranial non-occlusive thrombus and multiple strokes in giant cell arteritis he Canadian journal of neurological sciences Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques. 2012; 1(39):116-117. . View in PubMed