Bio: Deepta is an Associate Professor in the department of ophthalmology, Service line Chief at Emory University hospital, Director of Inpatient ophthalmology and Fellowship director of the ophthalmology inpatient fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta GA. She has trained in ocular physiology at the Emory Eye Center and in glaucoma at the University of Nebraska. She is a clinician scientist and has been funded by NIH, the Nebraska Research Initiative, the IDeA CTR program, the American Glaucoma Society, Center for Health in Aging, Georgia tech CTSA among other. Her research work focuses on the impact of visual disability on activities of daily living particularly driving, visual perception and ocular disease and ocular biomarkers for CNS disorders. Her clinical work focusses on adult and pediatric glaucoma and inpatient ophthalmology.
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