ALFREDO A. SADUN
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Flora L. Thornton Endowed Chair, Doheny Eye Centers, UCLA; Chief of Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye; Vice-Chair of Ophthalmology, UCLA
Doheny Eye Institute
Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned expert in ophthalmology. He has made significant contributions by using both his MD and PhD training. Dr. Sadun’s research has centered on the clinical, psychophysical and laboratory studies of diseases of the optic nerve. He has led pioneering efforts to help create the new science of mitochondrial ophthalmology, changing the way many optic neuropathies are now treated. In the 1980s, Dr. Sadun was the first to describe the nine anatomical pathways between the eye and the brain in humans including the retinal projection to the hypothalamus for the visual entrainment of the circadian rhythm.
