Dr. V.K. Raju, MD

About Dr. Raju

Dr. Raju was born in Andhra Pradesh, India, and went to medical school at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, earning an M.B.B.S. He completed an ophthalmology residency and fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons and trained in corneal transplant surgery. He is board certified in ophthalmology by the American Board of Ophthalmology.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He is an ophthalmologist at Regional Eye Associates in West Virginia and Maryland. He was offered an assistant professorship at West Virginia University in 1976 and has served as a clinical professor of ophthalmology there.

He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore. He founded the Eye Foundation of America, a charity that provides eye care for children in developing countries. He helped found two hospitals in India, the Srikiran Eye Institute and the Goutami Eye Institute.

He co-authored a book with his daughter.