Anita Agarwal, MD
Dr. Agarwal sees patients at these West Coast Retina office locations:
Curriculum Vitae
Work Address
West Coast Retina Medical Group
1445 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Education
1986 MBBS Kasturba Medical College (Eqvt. MD) Mangalore University, India
Training
Fellow, Surgical Retina Department of Ophthalmology West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Director: Lionel D. J. Chisholm, M.D
Clinical Fellow, Medical Retina, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Internship, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Research Fellow (Retina), Department of Ophthalmology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Senior Resident Department of Ophthalmology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI), Chandigarh, India
Resident, Department of Ophthalmology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI) Chandigarh, India
House Surgeon, Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh, India 9/85-8/86
Internship, Wenlock & Lady Goschen Hospitals Mangalore, India
Certification
1999 Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology
2009 (Recertified) Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology
Honors and Awards
2015 OPTIC (UK) Medal awarded at the annual congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmology, Liverpool, UK
2014 J. Donald M. Gass Medal from the Macula Society for excellence in Macular Diseases.
2013 Present Castle Connely’s Top Doctors
2010 Achievement Award – American Academy of Ophthalmology
2010 Present Top Ophthalmologists
2009 Honor Award – American Society of Retina Surgeons
2009 Present Best Doctors of America
2008 Present Marquis Who’s Who
2008 Outstanding Teacher Award VEI given by Ophthalmology residents
2006 Elected to Retina Society
2005 Elected to Macula Society
2005 Elected to Sigma Xi Vanderbilt Chapter
2005 Determined by Essential Science Indicators SM to be one of the most cited recent papers in the field of MULTIDISCIPLINARY: Jonathan L. Haines, Michael Hauser, Silke Schmidt, William K. Scott, Lana M. Olson, Paul Gallins, Kylee L. Spencer, Shu Ying Kwan, Maher Noureddine, John R. Gilbert, Nathalie Schnetz-Boutaud, Anita Agarwal, Eric A. Postel, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance. "Complement factor H. variant increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration" Science. 2005 Apr 15;308(5720):419-21. Epub 2005
2000 Case of the month #19: Award from Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
1999 Case of the month # 6: Award from Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
1985 Best Outgoing Medical Graduate of the year in Medical School
Professional Organizations
1992 - present: American Academy of Ophthalmology
1992 - present: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2005 - present: Macula Society (Elected membership)
2006 - present: Retina Society (Elected membership)
1999 - present: American Society of Retina Specialists
2005 - present: Sigma Xi Vanderbilt Chapter (Elected membership)
1987 - present: All India Ophthalmological Society
1999 - present: Nashville Academy of Ophthalmology
2003 - present: Tennessee Academy of Ophthalmology
2002 - present: Uveitis Society of India
2000 - present American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI of Tennessee): (Secretary- 2004-2006)
Named Lecture
March, 2008
February, 2013
December, 2013
March 2014
May 2015
September 2015
April 2016
April 2016
June 2016
Book
Gass’ Atlas of Macular Diseases. Anita Agarwal, Author & Editor, Elsevier, Philadelphia, USA. 2011
Peer-reviewed articles
Book Chapters