Dr Harsha Rao, is currently working as a senior consultant in the Department of Glaucoma at Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru. He is also on the faculty at the University Eye Clinic Maastricht, University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands. He completed his basic medical education and Post-Graduation in Ophthalmology from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore. He subsequently completed his long term fellowship in Glaucoma at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad followed by another long term fellowship in Glaucoma at the University of California, San Diego. He had also held the positions of Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York between October 2010 and April 2015, and the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio between July 2011 and April 2015. He was a member of the Associate Advisory Board of World Glaucoma Association from 2011 to 2019. He completed his PhD from Maastricht University, Netherlands in 2018.

He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals (with a H-index of 36) and has been an invited speaker at multiple national and international conferences. He is a council member of the Asia-Pacific Ocular Imaging Society and is on the Education Committee of World Glaucoma Association. He features on the Stanford University’s latest ranking list of the top 2% scientists of the world.