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Swaraj Bose, MD Associate Professor Specialty: Neuro-Ophthalmology
Dr. Swaraj Bose is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology, a board-certified ophthalmologist and is currently the director of neuro-ophthalmology and orbital surgery at the University of California, Irvine. |
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He specializes in the medical and surgical management of patients with diseases of the eye and orbit in relation to the brain. |
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His clinical interests include optic neuropathies including MS, cranial nerve palsies, ocular myopathies including myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, pseudotumor cerebri and eyelid/orbital tumors.
Dr. Bose is highly experienced in performing orbital surgery for tumor removals, orbital decompression surgery in thyroid eye disease, optic nerve sheath fenestration, eye muscle surgery in restrictive and paralytic strabismus, lid retraction surgery, Botox injections and complex surgeries of the head and orbit in association with the maxillofacial surgeons and neurosurgeons.
Dr. Bose received his medical degree and postgraduate training in Ophthalmology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India, and served as a faculty at the University of Delhi, India for six years prior to coming to the US in 1991. In the US, he did his residency in Ophthalmology from New York University Medical Center (NYU), New York and was sub-specialty trained with three fellowships. His fellowship training were at the Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Glaucoma research and visual psychophysics), New York Eye and Ear Infirmary & NYU (Neuro-Ophthalmology / Neurovascular fellowship), and an additional two year clinical and research fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology and Neuroplastics/Orbital surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He joined the University of California, Irvine as a full time academic faculty in 2000.
Dr. Bose is an accomplished physician, surgeon and research scientist who has authored over 65 scientific papers and abstracts. He has presented his work across the country and abroad. Over the past few years, Dr. Bose has been researching the effects of thyroid hormone on the lacrimal gland and eye muscles using an animal model. His work in this area showing involvement of mitochondria in thyroid eye disease is considered cutting edge and has resulted, in the best scientific presentation at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmological Society annual meeting in 2005. His clinical research involves functional imaging of the brain including PET scan and functional MR (fMRI)I in relation to diseases of the eye. He is a recipient of several research grants including Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).
Dr. Bose is an active member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, North American Neuro-ophthalmological Society, and the Los Angeles Neuro-ophthalmological Society. He is also a scientific reviewer for both national and international journals that include Ophthalmology, Graefes’ Archives of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Journal of NeuroOphthalmology.
Greatly admired by his peers, Dr. Bose serves as a clinician,
researcher, lecturer and educator. Some of Dr. Bose’s achievements
include: "America's Top Ophthalmologists in Neuro Ophthalmology
/Orbital Surgery" by The Consumers' Research Council of America,
‘Best Doctor’s in America’, ‘Best Doctors International’,
Executives’ Who’s-Who’, and ‘Physician of Excellence’ in Orange
County’ and most notably has earned the devotion of his patients. He
also received the ‘Best Teacher’s Award’, Department of
Ophthalmology, UCI. Click here to view curriculum vitae. (PDF file)
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