Top experts by indication / Ophthalmology
Most active experts in Macular Degeneration (AMD)
2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026
361 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Macular Degeneration (AMD). The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.
Most registered trials
Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 65 of the 361 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.
| # | Expert | trials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emily ChewNational Eye Institute, MD | 10 trials |
| 2 | Peter CampochiaroWilmer Eye Institute, MD | 7 trials |
| 3 | Arshad KhananiSierra Eye Associates, NV | 7 trials |
| 4 | Wai WongTiresias Biopharma Consulting, MD | 6 trials |
| 5 | Raj MaturiIndiana University School of Medicine, IN | 5 trials |
| 6 | Jason SlakterNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY | 5 trials |
| 7 | Robert SnyderAZ | 4 trials |
| 8 | Charles WykoffRetina Consultants of Texas, TX | 4 trials |
| 9 | Neil BresslerWilmer Eye Institute, MD | 4 trials |
| 10 | Dante PieramiciCalifornia Retina Consultants, CA | 4 trials |
| 11 | David EichenbaumRetina Vitreous Associates of Florida, FL | 4 trials |
| 12 | Jason HsuPA | 3 trials |
| 13 | David BrownTX | 3 trials |
| 14 | Anne FungPacific Eye Associates, CA | 3 trials |
| 15 | Robert AveryNM | 3 trials |
| 16 | Jeremy KeenanUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 3 trials |
| 17 | Dilsher DhootCalifornia Retina Consultants, CA | 3 trials |
| 18 | Susanna ParkUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 3 trials |
| 19 | Scott CousinsDuke Medical Center, NC | 3 trials |
| 20 | Tiarnan KeenanNational Eye Institute, MD | 3 trials |
| 21 | Brandon BusbeeTennessee Retina, TN | 3 trials |
| 22 | Joel PearlmanVitreo-Retinal Medical Group, CA | 3 trials |
| 23 | Richard RosenNY | 2 trials |
| 24 | Hugo Quiroz-MercadoCO | 2 trials |
| 25 | Gaurav ShahCA | 2 trials |
Most cited
Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 21 of the 361 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 21 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.
| # | Expert | citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emily ChewNational Eye Institute, MD | 76,887 citations |
| 2 | Peter CampochiaroWilmer Eye Institute, MD | 42,532 citations |
| 3 | Charles WykoffRetina Consultants of Texas, TX | 23,504 citations |
| 4 | Allen HoWills Eye Hospital, PA | 19,340 citations |
| 5 | Paul BernsteinJohn A. Moran Eye Center, UT | 19,147 citations |
| 6 | Wai WongTiresias Biopharma Consulting, MD | 15,331 citations |
| 7 | Karl CsakyRetina Foundation of the Southwest, TX | 15,096 citations |
| 8 | Carl RegilloSidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, PA | 14,493 citations |
| 9 | Dante PieramiciCalifornia Retina Consultants, CA | 11,358 citations |
| 10 | Jeremy KeenanUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 9,819 citations |
| 11 | Scott CousinsDuke Medical Center, NC | 9,289 citations |
| 12 | Tiarnan KeenanNational Eye Institute, MD | 6,492 citations |
| 13 | Joel PearlmanVitreo-Retinal Medical Group, CA | 6,112 citations |
| 14 | David CallananAviceda Therapeutics, TX | 5,919 citations |
| 15 | Raj MaturiIndiana University School of Medicine, IN | 5,805 citations |
| 16 | Sharon FekratDuke University, NC | 5,408 citations |
| 17 | Arshad KhananiSierra Eye Associates, NV | 5,354 citations |
| 18 | Anne FungPacific Eye Associates, CA | 4,407 citations |
| 19 | Susanna ParkUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 3,282 citations |
| 20 | Dilsher DhootCalifornia Retina Consultants, CA | 2,541 citations |
| 21 | David EichenbaumRetina Vitreous Associates of Florida, FL | 2,524 citations |
Most NIH awards
NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 13 of the 361 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 13 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.
| # | Expert | awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David BrownTX | 13 awards |
| 2 | Peter CampochiaroWilmer Eye Institute, MD | 13 awards |
| 3 | Jeremy KeenanUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 12 awards |
| 4 | Scott CousinsDuke Medical Center, NC | 8 awards |
| 5 | Paul BernsteinJohn A. Moran Eye Center, UT | 7 awards |
| 6 | Neil BresslerWilmer Eye Institute, MD | 6 awards |
| 7 | Richard RosenNY | 1 award |
| 8 | Robert SnyderAZ | 1 award |
| 9 | Robert AveryNM | 1 award |
| 10 | Karl CsakyRetina Foundation of the Southwest, TX | 1 award |
| 11 | Susanna ParkUniversity of California, Davis, CA | 1 award |
| 12 | Priyatham MettuDuke Eye Center, NC | 1 award |
| 13 | David CallananAviceda Therapeutics, TX | 1 award |
Most congress contributions
Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 3 of the 361 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 3 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.
| # | Expert | contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles WykoffRetina Consultants of Texas, TX | 1 contribution |
| 2 | David EichenbaumRetina Vitreous Associates of Florida, FL | 1 contribution |
| 3 | Allen HoWills Eye Hospital, PA | 1 contribution |
Emerging
11 of the 361 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.
| Baseer AhmadMedical College of Wisconsin, WI |
| Robert BhisitkulUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA |
| Nikhil BommakantiPA |
| Jordan DeanerThomas Jefferson University, PA |
| Ghassan GhorayebWest Virginia University, WV |
| Michael ProWills Eye Hospital, PA |
| Rithambara RamachandranMI |
| Landon RohowetzUniversity of Miami, FL |
| Ramin SchadluAZ |
| Jason SlakterNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY |
| Robert VittiRegeneron, NJ |
How these tables are computed
The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Macular Degeneration (AMD), from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.
Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.
The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.
What is deliberately absent
Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.
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