Merab Dvali

Merab Dvali is the founder and General Director of the Akhali Mzera Eye Clinic in Tbilisi, Georgia, which he established in 1999. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Medical Institute in 1972, completed residency at the First Moscow Medical Institute, and worked as a researcher in microsurgery and reconstructive surgery at the All-Union Research Institute of Eye Diseases in Moscow. He received his Doctor of Medical Sciences degree in 1989 and became a full professor in the Department of Eye Diseases at Tbilisi State Medical University in 2005. Prof. Dvali founded the Georgian Ophthalmologists Association in 1995 and was its first chairman. His work in cataract, refractive and keratoconus surgery has included LASIK in children, phakic intraocular lenses, intrastromal corneal ring segments and corneal cross-linking. He received the Georgian State Prize in science and technology in 2002 and is the author of the textbook "Fundamentals of Ophthalmology" (2010).