Former Lab Members

Former Lab Members

Many of our laboratory’s prior postdoctoral researchers have gone on to independent research positions. Below is a list of some past lab members:

Stephanie Garcia, MD – Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Philippines

Changzoo Kim, MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Kosin University, South Korea

Seongjin Lim, PhD – Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Alabama

Toshiaki Goseki, MD – President of Japanese Association for strabismus and Amblyopia

Firoz Amjadi, MD –  Orthopedic spine surgeon, Bakersfield, CA

Benjamin T. Crane, MD, PhD. Professor of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering, University of Rochester, New York

Junru Tian, MD, PhD – Los Angeles, CA

Federico G. Velez, MD – Professor of Ophthalmology, UCLA

Peter K. Rabiah, MD – pediatric ophthalmologist, Glenview, IL

Dooseop Song, MS – 2021-2022. Colonel, Army of the Republic of Korea

Alan Le, PhD. Alcon Research, Ltd., Lake Forest, California

Sunghyuk Moon, MD. Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Toshiaki Goseki, MD. Professor of Ophthalmology

Andrew Shin, PhD. - Intelon Optics Inc., Lexington, MA, USA

Lawrence Yoo, PhD. - (CEO) Intelon Optics Inc., Lexington, MA, USA

Soh Youn Suh, MD – Assistant professor of ophthalmology, UCLA

Sun Young Shin, MD

Yunping Li, MD

Rui Hao, MD

Zia Chaudhuri, MBBS – Professor of Ophthalmology

Tzu-Hsun Tsai, MD

Sei Yeul Oh, MDB – Professor of Ophthalmology

Vadims Poukens, MD, PhD – Deputy Coroner, Los Angeles County

Joseph Park, PhD – Ophthalmic Devices Division, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Erik Viiire, MD, PhD – Professor of Neurosciences, U.C. San Diego

Sei Yeul Oh, MD, PhD – Professor of Ophthalmology, Ewha Woman’s University Medical School Seoul, Korea

Igor Shubayev, MD, PhD – UC San Francisco

Gerald Wiest, MD – Associate Professor of Neurology, Vienna, Austria

Pradeep Sharma, MD – Professor of Ophthalmology, All India medical Center, New Delhi, India

Reika Kono, MD – Osaka, Japan

Maria Carolina Orbube, MD – Senior Medical Director, Syneos Health, Los Angeles, CA

Neepa Thacker, MD – Ophthalmologist, Mumbai, India

Anita Dusyanth, PhD – research analyst, Berenberg Capital Markets, San Francisco, CA

Michelle Peng, MD – ophthalmologist, Daly City, CA

Hee Jung Park, MD – ophthalmologist, Seattle, WA

Monica Khitri, MD – Ophthalmologist, UCLA

Geoffrey Wabulembo, MD – senior ophthalmologist, CBM International, Papua, New Guinea

Ronen Rabinovitz, MD – Shohan, Israel

Matthew Pihlblad, MD – Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Bhambi Gesite, MD – pediatric ophthalmologist, Phillipines

Ajay, Manchandia, MD – pediatric ophthalmologist, Long Beach, CA

Melinda Chang, MD – assistant professor of ophthalmology, USC, Los Angeles, CA

Previous undergraduate students (partial list) 

Bola Ayoub Gawargious

Jessica Chen

Michael Lesgart

Ayesha Baig

Nathan Long

Michael Jang