Texas Retina’s Rene Y. Choi, MD, PhD, was inducted into the prestigious International Retina Imaging Society (IntRIS) on October 29, 2025. A private, nonprofit professional membership society, the mission of IntRIS is to facilitate the advancement of knowledge, science, and innovation in the field of retinal imaging by integrating basic science, clinical medicine, and industry.
Comprised of physicians and scientists, IntRIS is dedicated to advancing the fields of adaptive optics, artificial intelligence for retinal imaging, new imaging technology and analytics, advances in defining structural and vascular anatomy, and imaging of retinal vascular disease, inherited retinal disease, choroidal disease, inflammatory and infectious disease, myopia, neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), non-neovascular AMD, and posterior segment tumors.
The organization is selective with just 187 members worldwide and only 83 in the United States. Evaluated by a committee, applicants are considered based on their contributions to the field of retina and retinal imaging.
“I am honored and humbled to be selected for membership in IntRIS,” shares Dr. Choi. “It is an esteemed organization, and I look forward to the innovative, collaborative opportunities this will provide to advance retina care for our patients here in Texas and worldwide.”
About Dr. Rene Y. Choi
Joining Texas Retina in September 2020, Dr. Choi treats patients at our Denton and Frisco offices and specializes in vitreoretinal surgery, medical retina, and uveitis. He graduated with honors from Columbia University before earning his medical degree as well as a doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He came to Texas Retina from the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, where he completed fellowship training in vitreoretinal surgery, uveitis, and clinical ocular immunology. Prior to that, he completed his ophthalmology residency at the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.