Associate Professor
Education:
- Morehouse School of Medicine, MD
- Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital, Denver, CO, Medical Internship
- Emory University Atlanta, GA, Ophthalmology Residency
- F.I. Proctor Foundation, UCSF, Fellowship in Uveitis
Dr. Shantha is a clinician scientist and Associate Professor at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco Department of Ophthalmology. She completed ophthalmology residency at the Emory Eye Center and pursed two additional fellowships in medical retina (Retina Consultants of Hawaii) and uveitis (Proctor Foundation). Her clinical duties encompass the evaluation of uveitis referrals from northern California and surrounding areas.
As a clinician scientist, she has advanced our understanding of the ocular complications and novel risk factors of uveitis associated with Ebola virus disease and has expanded this inquiry into other emerging infectious diseases. At the Proctor Foundation she is involved in clinical trials related to mental health and ocular fluid diagnostics in patients with uveitis. Dr. Shantha’s long-term research goals are to improve the diagnosis and management of ocular inflammatory diseases with an emphasis on ocular fluid diagnostics, biomarker identification, and advance treatment paradigms in uveitis.
For more details please visit: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/Jessica.Shantha