Macular Diseases, Uveitis, Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery, Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinal Degeneration, Macular Degeneration and Related Disorders

Treatment and disease mechanisms of ocular inflammations and infections

• UHealth at Plantation
• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Palm Beach Gardens
• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Miami
• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naples

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Janet L. Davis, MD, received a medical degree with high honors in 1981 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and completed a residency in ophthalmology in 1986. She was a fellow in vitreoretinal diseases at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Medical School from 1986 to 1987 and joined the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Immunology as a Senior Staff Fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Nussenblatt in 1987. She returned to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in 1989 and was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology in 2000. In addition to a clinical practice in uveitis and ocular infections, she also sees patients with medical and surgical vitreoretinal disorders and conducts clinical research.
Dr. Davis's academic interests are infectious and inflammatory diseases of the eye, with an emphasis on diagnostic procedures and clinical management of uveitis, including the surgical management of uveitic complications. She is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Retina Society, Macula Society, American Uveitis Society (President, 2006 - 2008), the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology, the International Uveitis Study Group, and the International Ocular Inflammation Society, for which she is a Council Representative for the United States. She became a Director of the American Board of Ophthalmology in 2006. She is a reviewer for several academic journals and an executive editor for the American Journal of Ophthalmology. By 2008, she had published 24 book chapters, 134 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and made numerous national and international presentations.
She has been recognized with the Senior Achievement Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and listed in Best Doctors, America's Top Ophthalmologists, Florida Super Doctors, and Marquis Who's Who.