Nisha Acharya MD, MS

Dr. Nisha Acharya is the Elizabeth C. Proctor Distinguished Professor at the F.I. Proctor Foundation and Departments of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at UCSF and the Director of the Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease Service. Dr. Acharya is a clinician-scientist with fellowship training in cornea and uveitis, with a clinical focus on ocular inflammatory diseases and uveitis.

Her research focuses on clinical trials and epidemiological studies in ocular inflammation. She was co-PI of the U10 Mycotic Ulcer Treatment Trial and PI of the NEI-funded U10 grant First-line Antimetabolites for Steroid-Sparing Treatment (FAST) Uveitis Trial, a multicenter trial that compared methotrexate to mycophenolate for the treatment of non-infectious intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis.

She is the PI of the U10 ADJUST (Adalimumab in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-associated Uveitis Stopping Trial). She is also the protocol co-chair of a macular edema trial through the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment Trial group. Dr Acharya’s research group is experienced in working with large electronic medical record datasets. She is the PI of an R01 using large datasets to study the impact of the herpes zoster vaccination on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus.