Professor of Ophthalmology, Leach Chair in Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, USA
In the words of her nominator: “Janet L. Davis is an internationally recognized expert in uveitis, as well as a medical retina and vitreoretinal specialist. As director of Bascom Palmer’s uveitis service, she initiated a consultative uveitis clinic for the resident physicians where she has mentored dozens of residents and fellows. Her expertise includes infectious and inflammatory diseases of the eye with an emphasis on diagnostic procedures and clinical management of uveitis, including the surgical management of uveitic complications. For the last seven years, she has also led the Bascom Palmer surgical team, which has performed more than 100 subretinal gene therapy procedures for inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and choroideremia.”
