New Faculty Yousef Aldairy, MD, is a Harvard and Duke fellowshiptrained retina specialist with expertise in the diagnosis and Aldairy treatment of condiRetina tions such as AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vascular diseases. Trained in the interpretation of retinal vascular imaging techniques, he specializes in the use of these imaging studies to guide injection and laser-based treatment of disease. He is involved in clinical trials and innovative therapies for the treatment of macular diseases and has special interest in advanced ocular imaging, specifically optical coherence tomography angiography.
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Aldairy is a member of the American Society of Retina Specialists, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Brad Barnett, MD, PhD, is a cornea surgeon who treats patients with cataracts, corneal diseases and ocular surface diseases Barnett such as dry eye Cornea disease. He focusses on developing novel therapeutics and drugdelivery strategies to treat ocular surface disease, as well as novel devices and surgical procedures to advance the effectiveness and safety of keratoplasty and cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation. He is an inventor on numerous awarded patents and numerous pending patents and has extensively published in the fields of nanotechnology, biomaterials and pharmacology including manuscripts in Science and Nature Medicine. He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Fellowship, a Pfeiffer Foundation Fellowship
and the Claes Dohlman Fellowship. Barnett has received the Wilmer Eye Institute Richard Green Teaching Award and has also authored numerous book chapters on surgical technique and clinical imaging. Chantel Boisvert, MD, OD, received her medical degree from Laval University School of Medicine and completed Boisvert Chief, Neuro- her residency in ophthalmology ophthalmology at the University of Montreal Hospitals. She then completed two fellowships—one in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at UCSD Shiley Eye Center and the other in neuroophthalmology at USC Doheny Eye Center. Prior to joining Duke, she was associate clinical professor and director of medical education in ophthalmology at UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. Her clinical interests include pediatric and adult neuro-ophthalmology and the evaluation and treatment of double vision. Boisvert has collaborated with neuroscientists and clinicians on research projects. She has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of refractive error and visual field assessment in non-human primates, some of her work has been presented to national veterinary medicine conferences. She has also collaborated on many different clinical trials involving the nervous system. Durga Borkar, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained adult vitreoretinal surgeon. She completed her undergraduate Borkar and medical Medical Retina, school training Vitreoretinal at Northwestern Surgery University. After a general ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School-Mass Eye and Ear
Infirmary, she completed her vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital. Durga’s practice is focused on injection and laser-based treatment of retinal disease in the clinic, as well as complex surgical cases in the operating room. She specializes in diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal vascular occlusion, macular edema, macular holes, epiretinal membranes, vitreomacular traction, secondary intraocular lens placement, and complex retinal detachments, among others. She has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters early in her career. She is the recipient of several awards for her excellence in research and clinical care, including the Heed Foundation Fellowship, the Society of Heed Fellows Award, and the AAO Advocacy Ambassador Award. Roshni RanjitReeves, MD, is an oculofacial surgeon. She completed a prestigious and rigorous Ranjit-Reeves fellowship training Oculofacial program at the Surgery Duke Eye Center after completing her ophthalmology residency in Tampa, Florida. She specializes in plastic surgery and reconstruction of the eyes and their surrounding structures including the eyelids, orbit, eye socket and lacrimal system. She is trained and well versed in laser and cosmetic surgery of the skin, injectable fillers, and neurotoxin for facial rejuvenation. In addition to performing aesthetic surgery on the skin to improve skin texture and reverse photo-aging with laser skin resurfacing, she also performs minimally invasive anti-aging procedures for facial rejuvenation such as injectable fillers and neurotoxins. Her academic interests include chemical properties of fillers
