Balamurali Krishna "Bala" Ambati (born July 29, 1977)[1][2] is an Indian-American ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher.

He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine with distinction at the age of 17,[9][10] scoring above 99 percent on his National Medical Boards,[10] and becoming the world's youngest doctor in 1995.

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 Flying Eye Hospital, traveling to under-privileged countries to practice and teach ophthalmic surgery.

[6][9][11] He won the Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award from the ARVO Foundation in 2014[20] and the Troutman-Véronneau Prize from the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology in 2013.