Craig Chaya

Affiliation

Moran Eye Center - University of Utah

Biography

Craig J. Chaya, MD completed residencies in internal medicine at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and ophthalmology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. He also received training in international ophthalmology as a Himalayan Cataract Project/Freedom Foundation Fellow in Kathmandu and Hetauda, Nepal and completed a glaucoma fellowship at the University of Utah, John A. Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and practices anterior segment ophthalmology with a focus on the management of complex cataracts and glaucoma at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His interests include international ophthalmology, and he has worked as a consultant and volunteer in Guam, Micronesia, Ghana, Haiti, Thailand, and Nepal. His research interests include novel glaucoma surgical devices and international blindness prevention.