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Sonal Tuli, MD  completed a residency in ophthalmology at Indiana University in 2000. She then completed a fellowship in cornea and external diseases at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida, and joined the University of Florida Department of Ophthalmology in 2001. She also completed a master’s degree in education in 2012 at the University of Florida. She was appointed interim chair of the Ophthalmology Department in October 2013 and named chair in April 2015. She is board-certified in ophthalmology. Her interests include cataracts, corneal transplants, ocular surface cancers, dry eye disease, and infectious eye diseases. She provides adult and family-based ophthalmic care.

She was appointed director of the Division of Cornea and External Diseases in 2003 and has directed its fellowship program since that year. She served as the director of the ophthalmology residency program from 2007 to 2017. She was a senator in the UF Senate for three years and served on the Faculty Council for six years. She is Vice-Chair of the Promotion and Tenure Committee and is on the Board of the Florida Society of Ophthalmology. She has taught courses at international, national, regional, and local conferences, as well as at the University of Florida. She has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is actively involved in clinical and laboratory research as a principal investigator or co-investigator. She serves on the editorial board of peer-reviewed publications and is a reviewer for several scholarly journals.

At the national level, she is Vice-Chair of the Practicing Ophthalmologists Curriculum Committee and recently completed a term as Chair of the Online Education Committee and the AAO educational representative to the Continuing Medical Education Task Force. She has been invited to serve as an oral examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology and has done so since 2006.