Meet our specialist
Dr. Bhatia is fellowship trained in Cornea/external disease/refractive surgery (LASIK) and is ABO board certified. He has significant experience in the treatment of diseases of the cornea, advanced cataract surgery, glaucoma, and uveitis as well as routine eye conditions including dry eye syndrome. In addition, he is well versed with the most modern corneal and cataract surgery techniques but is still very comfortable with many of the older "traditional" techniques developed in eye surgery that are still required in many complex surgeries. Dr. Bhatia is an ophthalmologist.
Having been an Assistant Professor at the prestigious University of Florida, Dr. Bhatia was involved in the training of medical students, ophthalmologists, and corneal specialists. A few of his former trainees are highly respected ophthalmologists in the DFW area. He also served as the Director of Refractive surgery, Director of the Specialty contact lens service, and Medical Director of the ophthalmology technician program at UF. Currently, Dr. Bhatia is still involved with teaching through training of ophthalmology residents at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is also currently the Medical Director of the Fort Worth Tissue Bank.
Dr. Subir Bhatia’s educational pursuits have taken him throughout the US, from his kindergarten, elementary, and middle school education in Michigan to high school, college, and medical school in Ohio. He completed an internship in Family Medicine at the UC Davis Family medicine program in California and later undertook his ophthalmology training at the New York Medical College. He received fellowship training in Cornea and External Disease at the University of Florida where he was honored by being requested to stay on as faculty and be involved with training of future ophthalmologists, corneal specialists, and medical students. Dr. Bhatia has not only traveled extensively in the US but has also traveled overseas to volunteer his skills to serve impoverished communities in South America and India for many years. Furthermore, he has volunteered abroad to train other ophthalmologists in the art of corneal and ocular surface surgery with organizations such as ORBIS and Rotary Club International among others.
Being a member of the Sikh Indian American community, Dr. Bhatia wears a turban as a sign of his religious affiliation to the Sikh faith, which originated in Northern India over 500 years ago and has a similar ancestry to the modern day Hindu faith. He feels that his Sikh faith is the main reason and guiding force in his "calling to serve humanity and underprivileged communities”. “Spending the time to listen and get a full sense of the issues afflicting a patient” is the technique Dr. Bhatia states helps him in treating his most difficult patients who often have been to many doctors before visiting him. He summarizes his approach by saying, “I like to remind myself that the eyes are a part of the whole body… you can’t effectively treat one without understanding the other.”
