Ophthalmology

The Department of Ophthalmology is committed to:

1. Providing an academic environment that will foster an in-depth understanding of the specialty of ophthalmology.
2. Providing education for students, residents, and fellows that prepares them for an academic, community, or mission practice.
3. Encouraging and supporting clinical research.
4. Inspiring students and residents to promote preventive ophthalmology.

Chair

Michael E. Rauser

Vice chair, Academic Affairs

Kakarla Chalam

Vice chair, Clinical Affairs

Jennifer A. Dunbar

Director

Kakarla Chalam
Retina Fellowship

Kakarla Chalam
Retina Service

Fatema Esmail
Pediatric Opthalmology Service

Howard Guan
Medical Student Education

Frank Hwang
Cornea Fellowship

Frank Hwang
Cornea External Disease & Refractive Surgery Service

Jeffrey Ing
Global Eye Care

Program director

Samantha Perea
Residency Program

Association program director

Leila Khazaeni
Residency Program

Primary faculty

John C. Affeldt

Kinza Ahmad

Sandra Akamine-Davidson

Meaghan Balli

Dianne Barrett

Pamela Bekendam

Peter Bekendam

Josef Bille

Larry Bowes

John Carlson

Kakarla Chalam

Clement Chan

Eric Chin

David Choi

Reema Chokshi

Paul Chung

Jennifer Dunbar

Nathan Elledge

Moses Enghelberg

Fatema Esmail

Joseph T. Fan

Neil Finnen

David Gano

Howard V. Gimbel

Howard Guan

Eman Hawy

Martha Henao

Kenneth Houchin

Lynn Huang

Gary Huffaker

Jennifer I, Hui

Frank Hwang

Jeffrey Ing

Wayne B. Isaeff

Jaskarn Johl

Kevin Kaplowitz

Lisa Keltner

Leila M. Khazaeni

William H. Kiernan

Samuel Kim

Joseph Kim

Benjamin Kronberg

Xuan Le-Nguyen

Gavin McEwan

Jay Mehta

Todd Mondzelewski

Enoch Nam

Julio Narvaez

Rosalynn H. Nguyen-Stongin

Stephen O'Connell

Abraham Park

Kaitlyn Pearson

Samantha E. Perea

Richard Pesavento

Jonathan Pirnazar

Duna Raoof

Michael E. Rauser

Paul Row

Arvind Saini

Jewel Sandy

Gerald Schultz

Bailey Shen

Mark Sherman

Carl Shibata

David Sierpina

Jodi Smith

Kris Storkersen

Mukesh B. Suthar

Richard R. Tamesis

Sharon Theodore

Donald G. Tohm

Tom Tooma

Gabriel Valerio

Douglas Van Putten

Linda Vargas

Ira Vidor

Craig White

Hilalry Wilson

Timothy Winter

Robert Wresch

Tiffany Yanase

Janie Yoo

Ernest S. Zane

Secondary faculty

Kelly Keefe

Research

Balamurali Ambati

Sangheetha Ravi Kumar

Hironori Uehara

Xiaohui Zhang