Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology
Emory University School of Medicine
United States of America
Kannan Narayana, MD, MBBS, joined the Emory Eye Center on July 1, 2015, as an assistant professor in the Neuro-Ophthalmology service. Dr. Narayana brings with him a rare combination of experience in both neurology and ophthalmology. He completed an ophthalmology residency in India followed by a fellowship in uveitis and ocular inflammation at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Narayana completed a neurology residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson in New Jersey, where he served as chief resident. He recently completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Narayana will have a primary practice at Emory Hospital Midtown, establishing an expansion of Emory Eye Center’s strong neuro-ophthalmology program to the Midtown area. His clinical emphasis will cover an array of neuro-ophthalmic disorders including afferent /efferent pathway disorders, diplopia and involuntary eye movements. As an academician, Dr. Narayana is keenly interested in teaching. He has co-authored 15 peer-reviewed articles and four book chapters. He has research interests in auto-immune diseases of the eye and the nervous system, developing newer technologies that characterize afferent and efferent dysfunction in inflammatory, neurodegenerative disorders, and other disorders of unknown etiology (e.g: dizziness, atypical pain syndromes). Kannan Narayana, MD, MBBS, joined the Emory Eye Center on July 1, 2015, as an assistant professor in the Neuro-Ophthalmology service. Dr. Narayana brings with him a rare combination of experience in both neurology and ophthalmology. He completed an ophthalmology residency in India followed by a fellowship in uveitis and ocular inflammation at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Narayana completed a neurology residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson in New Jersey, where he served as chief resident. He recently completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Narayana will have a primary practice at Emory Hospital Midtown, establishing an expansion of Emory Eye Center’s strong neuro-ophthalmology program to the Midtown area. His clinical emphasis will cover an array of neuro-ophthalmic disorders including afferent /efferent pathway disorders, diplopia and involuntary eye movements. As an academician, Dr. Narayana is keenly interested in teaching. He has co-authored 15 peer-reviewed articles and four book chapters. He has research interests in auto-immune diseases of the eye and the nervous system, developing newer technologies that characterize afferent and efferent dysfunction in inflammatory, neurodegenerative disorders, and other disorders of unknown etiology (e.g: dizziness, atypical pain syndromes).
• Medical and surgical management of glaucoma • Laser therapy • Surgical management of cataracts