Bahram Bodaghi, MD, PHD, FEBO is Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He currently chairs the Medical Council of APHP-Sorbonne University Hospitals. He is a board member of Euretina.
Dr Bodaghi is a member of numerous national and international organizations. He served as Secretary General of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) from 2008-12 and member of the ARVO annual program committee (2013-15). He was an International Board member of the BCSC (Intraocular Inflammation and Uveitis section) for the American Academy of Ophthalmology from 2005-11 and the Secretary General of the French Society of Ophthalmology (2020-23). He has served as President of the French University Council of Ophthalmology from 2013 to 2021 and President of the International Ocular Inflammation Society from 2015 to 2023.
Dr Bodaghi has published more than 380 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 30 textbook chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals and is a member of major vision research and clinical ophthalmology societies. He has given more than 150 invited lectures around the world.
Dr Bodaghi was the first ophthalmologist to win the Oudin Award of the French Society of Immunology. He also obtained the Senior Achievement award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the International Uveitis Study Group Prize. During the last decade, he mainly focused his efforts in the understanding of infectious agents associated with different forms of intraocular inflammation and also new therapeutic strategies in autoimmune uveitis.
