Dr. Anand Shah, a native of Georgia, is a fellowship-trained corneal and cataract surgery specialist. Dr. Shah is a highly respected ophthalmologist who specializes in DSAEK and cataract surgery.

Dr. Shah was the valedictorian of his high school class and then entered the highly competitive, Combined Seven Year Accelerated Bachelor of Arts/Medicine Program at Boston University. He graduated summa cum laude from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences with a major in medical sciences and a minor in archaeology. Dr. Shah attended Boston University School of Medicine where he not only graduated with honors and in the top 10% of his class but was also invited into the highly prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

After medical school, Dr. Shah completed a transitional internship at Wayne State University/Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Following his internship, he completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado where he published numerous articles on many of the ophthalmic subspecialties along with presenting much of his work at international ophthalmic meetings.

Following his residency, Dr. Shah was selected to pursue a Cornea and External Diseases Fellowship at the prestigious Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon. There, under the guidance of Dr. Mark A. Terry, a world-renowned cornea surgeon and a key player in the advent of endothelial keratoplasty (EK), Dr. Shah performed over 60 “partial cornea transplants,” or DSAEKs, with a complication rate of <1%, a figure unmatched by 90% of currently practicing cornea surgeons in the world. Also during his fellowship, Dr. Shah performed and assisted on multiple anterior segment procedures and was involved in the first artificial corneal transplant in the state of Oregon.

Dr. Shah continues to publish extensively on groundbreaking surgical techniques and outcomes in the field of EK in major ophthalmic journals and has had the opportunity to present his group’s research at multiple international ophthalmic meetings, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meetings. Dr. Shah is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

He is excited to return to his native Georgia and is looking forward to welcoming new patients to the practice. Dr. Shah is also looking forward to working with the high caliber of referring eye doctors as they work together to ensure their patients with visual challenges benefit from his expertise in DSAEK and cataract surgery.

In his free time, Dr. Shah is an avid skier, world traveler, and a college football fan that loves to watch his UGA Bulldogs!