Kalyan Vinnakota
PhD ’06

About Kalyan Vinnakota

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Job title: Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Strategic Planning and Initiatives

Degrees: PhD ’06

Career stage: Mid-career

State of practice: Pittsburgh, PA

Current practice settings: Research – academic

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Changing specialty
  • Non-clinical careers
  • Burnout & Recovery
  • Trauma in the workplace
  • Experience in academia, government, non-profit, and industry

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 2006

Specialty/subspecialty: Bioengineering

Research or other professional interests: Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Metabolism, Rasopathies, optic nerve neuroprotection and regeneration

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