Jacob S. Heng, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at UC San Diego, Shiley Eye Institute and Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology, specializing in the surgical and medical management of adult vitreoretinal disease.

Dr. Heng earned his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, where he was awarded the Brunton Memorial Prize for graduating top of his medical school class. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he studied retinal disease models under the guidance of Dr. Jeremy Nathans, MD, PhD. Dr. Heng subsequently completed his ophthalmology residency at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he also served as the Chief Resident in his final year of residency and graduated with multiple awards including the Marvin L. Sears Award for Clinical Excellence, Susan Hall Forster Resident as Teacher Award, Patrick Mathews Award for Devotion to Family and Profession. He then completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he received a VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award.

Dr. Heng is a physician-scientist with an interest in the regulation of the blood-retinal barrier, a collection of specialized structures that regulate the movement of molecules between the retina and the bloodstream.

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