Joseph Chacko
UAMS College of Medicine, USA
Biography
Joseph G. Chacko, M.D. has been the director of neuro-ophthalmology at the Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) since 2005. Dr. Chacko is professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Dr. Chacko received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (now Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1991. He completed a residency in ophthalmology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 1995. He then went on to complete a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami in 2005.
His research interests include ischemic optic neuropathy, giant cell arteritis, divergence insufficiency, and pseudotumor cerebri.
Dr. Chacko has been board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology since 1996. He became a Fellow in the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society (NANOS) in 2010.