Abdul Aziz Badla

Abdul Aziz Badla is a specialist ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon who trained in Syria and has practised at Saudi German Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Badla graduated in medicine from Aleppo University in 1989, obtained a master's degree in ophthalmology from the Syrian Ministry of Health in 1993, and completed a clinical fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at El-Maghraby Eye Hospital in Jeddah in 1995. Further qualifications include the International Council of Ophthalmology basic science and clinical assessments, passed in 1999 and 2003. Clinical work covers vitrectomy, retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and refractive surgery. Dr. Badla has been second secretary of the Syrian Ophthalmological Society and chairman of the Eye Consulting Center in Damascus, and has been a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, the European VitreoRetinal Society and the International Society of Refractive Surgery.