Dr. Ravi Patel is Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery at Atlantic Eye, a multidisciplinary practice in New Jersey consisting of eleven providers. He is an Attending Surgeon on the Cornea Service at Wills Eye Hospital where he is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College; and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the State University of New York-College of Optometry, 

Prior to medical school he obtained his Masters in Taxation and he had a brief career in public accounting and financial services. Dr Patel then graduated summa cum laude from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. While in medical school he simultaneously obtained an MBA in Health Care Management.  He went on to complete his ophthalmology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and pursued a fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. 

He has been invited to speak at national as well as international conferences and has given named/keynote lectures.  His topics of interest include refractive cataract surgery, advanced anterior segment surgical techniques, keratoconus management, lamellar keratoplasty, ocular infectious diseases, management of ophthalmic surgical complications, laser refractive surgery and disruptive technologies. He serves on the editorial board of EyeWiki, specifically on the Cornea/External Disease section. He participates in US-FDA investigational device and pharmaceutical trials. As such, he is frequently an early adopter of new technologies, and regionally one of the first implanters of newly approved devices.

Despite being in a mostly private practice model, Dr Patel enjoys mentoring trainees from Wills Eye Hospital, Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine, Rutgers-RWJ Barnabas, and SUNY-College of Optometry. Using his health care management background, he enjoys working with the trainees on both professional and practice development as they transition out of their training years. He has worked, among others with the Center for Academic Global Ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital, to help train residents in underserved regions through mission trips to Africa, Asia and Central America.