MD, PhD, FRCOphth

Education and training

PhD in age-related macular degeneration – University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth
Clinical fellowship in medical retina - Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Clinical and research fellowship in medical retina - University Hospital Southampton (UHS)
Researcher - Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Vienna, Austria
Researcher - Allgemeines Krankenhaus (AKH) Vienna, Austria
Visiting doctor - Wills Eye Institute Philadelphia, USA
Ophthalmology training - University of Palermo, Italy
Medical school - University of Messina, Italy

Languages

Italian
English
German
Spanish

Experience

Gabriella De Salvo is a consultant ophthalmologist and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Miss De Salvo specializes in the diagnosis and management of medical retinal diseases and treats patients with conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, retinal vascular diseases, central serous chorioretinopathy, intraocular tumours, and inflammatory and inherited retinal conditions. She also offers second opinions for complex retinal cases.

She regularly teaches medical students, optometrists, nurses and junior doctors. She is a recognised appraiser for the Trust, she is the Clinical Effectiveness Lead and the Imaging Lead for Ophthalmology.

As an active researcher, she is involved in numerous clinical trials and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals. She is retina section editor for peer-reviewed journals such as 'Eye' and associate editor for the 'British Medical Journal Open Ophthalmology’. Miss De Salvo is also a recognised reviewer for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

She is an active member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the European Retina Society (Euretina), and the Italian Society of Ophthalmic Sciences (SISO).

Awards and prizes

Floretina ICCOR 2024 – Image Gallery Winner with ‘Crocodile skin appearance in idiopathic multifocal RPE detachments’ – Florence, Italy
University Hospital Southampton Division A Award - Doctors’ awards Senior Category 2023 – University Hospital Southampton
2020 Pharmaceutical Marketing award: HCP education category – silver award for Allergan’s Beyond virtual meeting (chairperson on 2 different days of the meeting)
Clinical Excellence Award 2018 – University Hospital Southampton
2018 Novartis Ophthalmology case award – challenging case on AZOOR of autoimmune origin, Manchester, May 9th, 2018 (senior author)
Bausch and Lomb research award – Multicolor imaging of papilledema in children, research audit day, South Downs Planetarium, January 20th, 2016 (senior author)
Hrvatsko Oftalmolosko Drustvo third prize best clinical case award – challenging case on preretinal pseudocystic lesion, Croatian Ophthalmological Society, Zagreb 5th December 2015 (senior author)
Best case report photo contest – challenging case on Ophthalmomyiasis, 56° Congresso Portugues Oftalmologia, Algarve Tivoli Marina, December 5th-7th, 2013 (senior author)

Research

Miss De Salvo regularly publishes and presents at National and International Ophthalmology meetings and is an international key opinion leader in Medical Retina and Ophthalmic Imaging.

Please find below some links to Miss De Salvo's publications related to her scientific interest in Medical Retina:

Contact

You can contact Miss De Salvo via her secretaries Sarah Smart and Holly Bucci by calling 023 8120 5739, or send an email sarah.smart@uhs.nhs.uk or holly.bucci@uhs.nhs.uk