


He has been an invited speaker to present at numerous national ophthalmic meetings. His works have been published in Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, RETINA and the Wills Eye Manual. He has contributed numerous peer-reviewed papers, textbook chapters, lectureships and editorials. He is a member of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS), American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

He is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, and is a member of the Retina Service at Wills Eye Hospital. He pursued fellowship training at Wills Eye Hospital and stayed to join the Mid Atlantic Retina and Wills Eye Hospital faculty.ĭr. Xu completed his ophthalmology residency at the Stein Eye Institute, UCLA in Los Angeles, California where he won the Pepose-Saltzman Young Investigator Award and the Starr E. He moved to Chicago, Illinois to complete his transitional year internship at Presence St. He completed medical school with distinction in Biomedical Research at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, where he completed a research fellowship supported by the Research to Prevent Blindness fellowship. David Xu grew up in Rockville, Maryland and graduated magma cum laude from Duke University. Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner Collegeĭr.
