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| name = Balamurali Ambati
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| caption = Ambati Balamurali Krishna
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|7|29}}
| birth_place = [[Vellore]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]<br> [[Duke University]]
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| birth_name = Balamurali Krishna Ambati
| nationality = American
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| website = {{URL|doctorambati.com}}
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'''Balamurali Krishna "Bala" Ambati''' (born July 29, 1977)<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990" /><ref name="Ambati-MorganEyeCtr"/> is an American [[Ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]], educator, and researcher. On May 19, 1995, he entered the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' as the world's youngest [[physician|doctor]], at the age of 17 years, 294 days.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090702164808/http://homespun.si.edu/resources/notable_firsts.asp Notable Firsts]. Indian American Heritage Project</ref><ref name="Glenday2011">{{cite book|author=Craig Glenday|title=Guinness World Records 2011|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec00crai_1|url-access=registration|access-date=9 August 2017|year=2011|publisher=[[Bantam Books|Bantam Dell]]|isbn=978-0-440-42310-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec00crai_1/page/129 129]}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Ambati was born into a [[Telugu people|Telugu]] family<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Telugu-professors-do-homeland-proud/articleshow/6122644.cms|title=Telugu professors do homeland proud {{!}} Hyderabad News - Times of India|date=|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2020-02-17|last3=Ist|first3=04:16}}</ref> in [[Vellore]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in southern India.<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990" /><ref name="NYTimes-Ambati-May1995" /> His family moved to [[Buffalo, New York]] when he was three.<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990" /><ref name="NYTimes-Ambati-May1995" /> According to his parents,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.premedlife.com/when-i-was-premed-dr-balamurali-ambati-worlds-youngest-doctor-record-holder/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421034129/http://www.premedlife.com/when-i-was-premed-dr-balamurali-ambati-worlds-youngest-doctor-record-holder/ |archive-date=April 21, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Ambati was doing calculus at the age of four.<ref name="NYTimes-Ambati-May1995"/> The family later moved to [[Orangeburg, South Carolina]], and then to [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990" /> Ambati initially attended high school at [[Baltimore Polytechnic Institute]] before transferring to [[Baltimore City College]],<ref name="BaltSun-WhizKid-Dec2013">{{cite news|last1=Calvert|first1=Scott|title=Baltimore whiz kid now a Utah eye surgeon|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-bala-ambati-20131206-story.html|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=December 6, 2013}}</ref> graduating in 1989 at age 11.<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990">{{cite news|last1=Stanley|first1=Alessandra|title=Prodigy, 12, Fights Skeptics, Hoping to Be a Doctor at 17|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/07/nyregion/prodigy-12-fights-skeptics-hoping-to-be-a-doctor-at-17.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 7, 1990}}</ref><ref name="NYDaily-Ambati-May1995">{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Mark|title=A DOCTOR - AT 17 JUST DON'T CALL MT. SINAI GRAD DOOGIE|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/doctor-17-don-call-mt-sinai-grad-doogie-article-1.678075|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=May 16, 1995}}</ref><ref name="BaltSun-May1995">{{cite news|last1=Jacobson|first1=Joan|title=Baltimore whiz kid, 17, earns his medical degree|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-05-18/news/1995138017_1_medical-school-bala-year-of-medical|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=May 18, 1995}}</ref> Also at age 11, he co-authored a research book on [[HIV/AIDS]] titled ''AIDS: The True Story – A Comprehensive Guide''.<ref name="USGov-1991">{{cite book|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8MLRpHAskYC|access-date=9 August 2017|year=1991|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]]}}</ref> He graduated from [[New York University]] at the age of 13. He graduated from [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Mount Sinai School of Medicine]] with distinction at the age of 17,<ref name="NYDaily-Ambati-May1995" /><ref name="BaltSun-May1995"/> scoring above 99 percent on his National Medical Boards<ref name="BaltSun-May1995"/> and becoming the world's youngest doctor in 1995.<ref name="Ambati-MorganEyeCtr">{{cite web|title=BALA AMBATI, M.D., PH.D.|url=http://uuhsc.utah.edu/moranEyeCenter/faculty/bala_ambati.htm|publisher=[[Moran Eye Center]]|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301141503/http://uuhsc.utah.edu/moranEyeCenter/faculty/bala_ambati.htm|archive-date=2011-03-01|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="BaltSun-May1995"/>

Ambati expressed that he disliked being compared to [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|Doogie Howser]], the fictional teenage doctor.<ref name=victorialadvocate>[[The Victoria Advocate]]. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19950517&id=hihSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DzYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5261,2890857 Teen doctor: 'Just don't call me Doogie']. May 17, 1995. Accessed 2013-04-02.</ref> Ambati described himself as being popular with people and, standing 6 feet tall, did not appear too young for a career in medicine<ref name=victorialadvocate/>—when he entered medical school at 14 years old, he appeared just like the older medical students.<ref>Vitals.com. [http://spotlight.vitals.com/2011/04/dr-balamurali-ambati-real-life-doogie-howser-has-greater-aspirations/#ixzz2PQVM56Q0 Dr. Balamurali Ambati, Real Life Doogie Howser, Has Greater Aspirations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009021215/http://spotlight.vitals.com/2011/04/dr-balamurali-ambati-real-life-doogie-howser-has-greater-aspirations/#ixzz2PQVM56Q0 |date=October 9, 2011 }}. April 8, 2011. Accessed 2013-04-03.</ref>

He completed an ophthalmology residency at [[Harvard University]], where he developed strategies to reverse [[cornea]]l [[angiogenesis]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corneal avascularity is due to soluble VEGF receptor-1|first1=Balamurali K.|last1=Ambati|first2=Miho|last2=Nozaki|first3=Nirbhai|last3=Singh|first4=Atsunobu|last4=Takeda|first5=Pooja D.|last5=Jani|first6=Tushar|last6=Suthar|first7=Romulo J. C.|last7=Albuquerque|first8=Elizabeth|last8=Richter|first9=Eiji|last9=Sakurai|first10=Michael T.|last10=Newcomb|first11=Mark E.|last11=Kleinman|first12=Ruth B.|last12=Caldwell|first13=Qing|last13=Lin|first14=Yuichiro|last14=Ogura|first15=Angela|last15=Orecchia|first16=Don A.|last16=Samuelson|first17=Dalen W.|last17=Agnew|first18=Judy|last18=St. Leger|first19=W. Richard|last19=Green|first20=Parameshwar J.|last20=Mahasreshti|first21=David T.|last21=Curiel|first22=Donna|last22=Kwan|first23=Helene|last23=Marsh|first24=Sakae|last24=Ikeda|first25=Lucy J.|last25=Leiper|first26=J. Martin|last26=Collinson|first27=Sasha|last27=Bogdanovich|first28=Tejvir S.|last28=Khurana|first29=Masabumi|last29=Shibuya|first30=Megan E.|last30=Baldwin|first31=Napoleone|last31=Ferrara|first32=Hans-Peter|last32=Gerber|first33=Sandro|last33=De Falco|first34=Jassir|last34=Witta|first35=Judit Z.|last35=Baffi|first36=Brian J.|last36=Raisler|first37=Jayakrishna|last37=Ambati|date=October 1, 2006|journal=Nature|volume=443|issue=7114|pages=993–997|doi=10.1038/nature05249|pmid=17051153|pmc=2656128|bibcode=2006Natur.443..993A}}</ref> after becoming a winner at the [[Regeneron Science Talent Search|Westinghouse Science Talent Search]] and the International Science & Engineering Fair and becoming a [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit Scholar]].{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2014}} He received the prestigious [[Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation|Raja-Lakshmi Award]] in 1995 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.

After completing a fellowship in cornea and [[refractive surgery]] at [[Duke University]] in 2002, he joined the faculty of the [[Medical College of Georgia]], where he practiced clinical ophthalmology and conducted research in such areas as corneal angiogenesis and outcomes of corneal and refractive surgery.

He also volunteers with the [[Orbis International|ORBIS]] Flying Eye Hospital, traveling to under-privileged countries to practice and teach ophthalmic surgery.<ref name="BaltSun-WhizKid-Dec2013"/><ref>[http://www.orbis.org/news/entry/through-the-orbis-lens-an-eye-opening-record ORBIS]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2008, he earned a PhD in Cell Biology from the Medical College of Georgia.<ref name="ClearVision-Ambati">{{cite web|title=Bala Ambati, M.D., PhD, MBA|url=http://pcvi.com/doctors/bala-ambati/|publisher=Pacific ClearVision Institute|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref> In 2011, Ambati donated a kidney to a 16-year-old boy from [[Idaho]].<ref name="BaltSun-WhizKid-Dec2013"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kaminer|first1=Ariel|last2=Ambati|first2=Bala|title=Life Preserver|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/the-ethicist-life-preserver.html|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 24, 2011}}</ref>

From 2008 to 2016, Ambati worked at the [[Moran Eye Center]] and served as professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, adjunct associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy, and director of corneal research at the [[University of Utah School of Medicine]].<ref name="ClearVision-Ambati"/><ref name="Armstrong-Root-Ambati-Ap2017">{{cite news|title=Armstrong-Root Welcomes World Renowned Ophthalmologist Dr. Bala Ambati|url=http://www.armstrongroot.com/your-eyes-our-focus/2017/4/27/armstrong-root-welcomes-world-renowned-ophthalmologist-dr-ba.html|access-date=9 August 2017|work=Armstrong-Root|date=April 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810012348/http://www.armstrongroot.com/your-eyes-our-focus/2017/4/27/armstrong-root-welcomes-world-renowned-ophthalmologist-dr-ba.html|archive-date=August 10, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> As of 2017, he practices in [[Eugene, Oregon]] at Pacific Clear Vision Institute and in [[Ketchum, Idaho]].<ref name="ClearVision-Ambati"/><ref name="Armstrong-Root-Ambati-Ap2017"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pcvi.com/doctors/bala-ambati|title=Dr. Bala Ambati - LASIK Eugene - Cataract Surgeon Florence, OR - PCVI|publisher=}}</ref>

== Family ==
Ambati's father was an industrial engineer, while his mother was a maths teacher.<ref name="NYTimes-Prodigy-May1990" />

Balamurali wrote a book on AIDS at age 11 with his brother Jayakrishna, who is also a physician.<ref name="NYTimes-Ambati-May1995">{{cite news|title=American Topics: A Doctor at 17, He Next Hopes To Be a Nobel Prize Winner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/20/news/20iht-topics_19.html|access-date=9 August 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 20, 1995}}</ref><ref name="NYDaily-Ambati-May1995" /><ref name="USGov-1991" />

== Awards ==

He won the Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award from the [[Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology|ARVO Foundation]] in 2014<ref>[http://www.arvo.org/foundation/Awards_and_Grants/Ludwig_von_Sallmann_Clinician-Scientist_Award_recent_recipient Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award recent recipient] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810215303/http://www.arvo.org/foundation/Awards_and_Grants/Ludwig_von_Sallmann_Clinician-Scientist_Award_recent_recipient/ |date=August 10, 2014 }}. arvo.org.</ref> and the Troutman-Véronneau Prize from the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology in 2013.<ref>[http://healthcare.utah.edu/moran/news/07_18_3013_Bala_Ambati_Troutman-Veronneau_Prize.php Dr. Bala Ambati Claims Prestigious Troutman-V茅ronneau Prize and Celebrates Recent Publication] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730044404/http://healthcare.utah.edu/moran/news/07_18_3013_Bala_Ambati_Troutman-Veronneau_Prize.php |date=July 30, 2014 }}. utah.edu.</ref> He was also awarded the Fourth IRDS Awards for Medicine for his achievements, awarded by the Lucknow-based Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130703191235/http://irdsindia.com/IRDS%20Award%20winners%202013.htm IRDS Award Winners 2013]. irdsindia.com</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Child prodigy]]
* [[Sho Yano]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*https://www.doctorambati.com/


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