H. Nida Sen

Hatice Nida Sen, M.D., MHS is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the George Washington University, and Senior Director/Clinical Leader at Janssen Retina R&D, Johnson and Johnson. She is also a special volunteer at The National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Sen earned her MD degree at Hacettepe University of Turkey, she then completed her ophthalmology residency at George Washington University, Washington DC; her clinical fellowship at the National Eye Institute, NIH in Bethesda, MD and her Masters in Health Sciences (MHS) in Clinical Research at Duke University, Durham NC.

Dr Sen has been an investigator at the NEI, NIH for 13 years where she was a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and NIH Distinguished Scholar and the Head of Clinical and Translational Ocular Immunology Section. She was also the Director of the Uveitis Clinic and the Uveitis and Ocular Immunology Fellowship Program at the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). As a prominent investigator in the field of uveitis and ocular immunology Dr. Sen led many clinical trials (phase 1 to IV), natural history studies, developed clinical and laboratory biomarkers and endpoints. She has mentored many clinical fellows, residents, and research students at NIH and GWU. She continues her part-time clinical practice and teaching at George Washington University and NIH.

She is a board-certified ophthalmologist and is a participating member of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). She is the immediate past president of American Uveitis Society (AUS) and is in the leadership committees of professional societies such as International Uveitis Study Group (IUSG), American Ophthalmological Society (AOS). She has authored over 180 peer-reviewed articles and many book chapters in highly prestigious textbooks of ophthalmology and most recently has been the editor of a major uveitis text book, Uveitis Fundamentals and Clinical Practice, 5th Edition. She has received many awards for her academic and research activities including Senior achievement and Secretariat awards of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, ARVO Silver Fellows Class of 2022, Prevention of Blindness (POB) Society of Metropolitan Washington Research Award, NIH Bench to Bedside Award, and NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholar Award.