Sophia I. Pachydaki, MD

Dr. Sophia Pachydaki, M.D. is a fellowship-trained retina specialist, certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK.

Dr. Pachydaki previously served as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and attending physician at Wayne State University School of Medicine & Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit. She joined Vitreo-Retinal Consultants, Inc. in 2012.

Prior to her teaching appointment, she completed residencies in ophthalmology at both Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School and St. George's Hospital in London, UK. She then completed fellowships in retina research at Columbia University and in retinal diseases and surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Her research and clinical interests include diabetic retinopathy and vascular diseases, macular degeneration, proliferative vitreoretinopathy and retinal detachment, and small-incision vitrectomy surgery.