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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2014

Vinay Kumar Aakalu, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Ophthalmology

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

Ophthalmic Surgery

1855 W Taylor St

Mc 648

Chicago, IL 60612

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Eye Reconstruction Procedures

  • blepharoplasty
  • enucleation
  • Eye plastic surgery
  • eyelid reconstruction
  • Facial Plastic surgery
  • orbital surgery
  • Orbittal fractures
  • prosthetic eye
  • Thyroid eye disease
  • trichiasis

Ophthalmology Cancer/Tumors

  • basal cell carcinoma
  • eye cancer
  • eye lymphoma
  • eyelid cancer
  • hemangioma
  • ocular malignancies
  • orbit tumors

Ophthalmology Disorders

  • dry eye
  • Sjorgen's syndrome

Eye Injury/Trauma

  • chemical burns
  • foreign objects
  • lid laceration

Pediatric Eye Disease/Procedures

  • ptosis

Hospital Appointments

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Attending

07/2012—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Illinois College of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Clinical Instructor

07/2012—12/2012

University of Illinois College of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Assistant Professor

12/2012—07/2013