2003 Harvard Medical School Graduate 2003-2004 UCLA Medical Center, Internal Medicine Internship 2004-2007 USC, Doheny Eye Institute, Ophthalmology Residency 2007-2009 New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Retinal Diseases & Surgery Fellowship Attending Physician St. Barnabas Medical Center, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
Board Certified, American Board of Ophthalmology
Published in leading journals, including Ophthalmology
Speaker at national meetings, including American Society of Retina Specialists
Recipient of research awards, including National Eye Institute and LA Eye Society
Dr. Boleslav Kotlyar
Dr. Boleslav Kotlyar was born in Kiev, Ukraine and emigrated to the US in 1993. He attended Stuyvesant High School, followed by New York University (2003-2006) for undergraduate studies, completing his degree in three years cum laude with a major in Biology and a minor in History. Dr. Kotlyar gained and interest in retina after working for a retina practice in Brooklyn as head ophthalmic technician and photographer for three years. This experience inspired him to study medicine at SUNY Buffalo from 2009–2013. During medical school, he served as president of the Surgery Interest Group as well as the Ophthalmology Interest Group. Dr. Kotlyar preliminary internal medicine year was at Newark Beth Israel in Newark, NJ, where he was awarded the Preliminary Medicine Intern of the Year award. His Ophthalmology residency was at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY from 2014–2017. His adult and pediatric Vitreoretinal Fellowship training was at Retina Consultants Limited/Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL from 2017–2019.
He is a current member of American Academy of Ophthalmology, and American Society of Retina Specialists. He is fluent in English, Russian and speaks basic Spanish.
Outside of work, his interests include traveling, Ultimate Frisbee, cooking, and science fiction.
Dr. Patrick Coady
Patrick A. Coady, MD, MBA, is a graduate of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire where he received numerous awards and honors. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College where he graduated cum laude and also received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business. Dr. Coady completed his medical internship at Columbia University’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and his ophthalmology residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He completed his vitreoretinal training at the Yale University School of Medicine and is Board Certified in Ophthalmology.
Prior to joining VRMNJ, Dr. Coady had a busy medical and surgical retina practice in Connecticut for 6 years at New England Retina Associates. He also worked as an Ophthalmologist at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Connecticut where he taught ophthalmic surgery to residents and fellows. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and was honored by the residents with the Voluntary Teacher of the Year Award in 2019.
Dr. Coady has participated in several volunteering projects, including in Santarém, Brazil where he helped deliver outpatient medical services to remote villages in the Amazon region. He also worked with Hospital de la Familia to deliver ophthalmologic care in Nuevo Progresso, San Marcos, Guatemala.
Dr. Coady is an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Retina Specialists. He has served as guest speaker at the Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians, California Pacific Medical Center, and the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been an investigator in clinical research trials for age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion and non-infectious uveitis. He has published articles on numerous topics including: ischemic retinal diseases, diabetic macular edema, retinal imaging, retinal surgery, remote visual monitoring and sickle cell retinopathy. He has extensive experience in the latest minimally invasive surgical techniques to treat retinal and macular disease as well as repair dislocated intraocular lenses.
His language abilities include professional working Spanish and limited working Portuguese and Farsi.
