OVS Residency Program

Fellowships - Past Residents

Retina/Uveitis

  • Nima Tirgan, Retina Institute of West Virginia
  • Ghassan Ghorayeb, UTMB
  • James Kim, U of Wisconsin
  • Rick Nordgren, Indiana
  • Mircea Coca, Chicago Consultants
  • Fuad Makkouk, Yale U
  • Hossein Nazari, University of Minnesota
  • Malkit “Mona” Singh, Beth Israel Deaconess Lahey Clinic (Boston, MA)
  • Elahhe Afkhamnejad, Associated Retina Consults 
  • John Gonzales, UCSF
  • Ilyse Kornblau, Medical Retina, Bascom Palmer
  • Harris Sultan, Surgical Retina, Washington U
  • Alec Amram, Vitreoretinal, University of Iowa
  • Jed Assam, Vitreoretinal Surgery, UT San Antonio

Pediatrics

  • Meghan Flemmons, Duke
  • Emily Shortridge, U South Carolina

Oculoplastics

  • Amina Husain, Duke
  • Zhenyang “James” Zhao, University of Michigan

 

 Glaucoma

  • Belal Bakir, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
  • Kevin Kaplowitz, Yale U
  • Chia-Kai Chu, Columbia U
  • John Ling, UC Irvine
  • Jeffrey Mattingly, Bascom Palmer
  • Austin Nakatsuka, Moran Eye Center
  • Bennett Hong, Casey Eye Institute
  • Lance Lyons, Mayo Clinic
  • Beena Shah, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Alexis Pascoe, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Rhys Ishihara, Baylor Cullen Eye Institute

Cornea/ Refractive

  • Orry Birdsong, Hoopes Vision (Utah)
  • Yusra Siddiqui, SUNY Downstate
  • Austin Nakatsuka, Moran Eye Center
  • Hamza Pasha, University of Pittsburgh
  • Ardalan Sharifi, Wilmer Institute
  • Akshaya Gupta, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Giovanni Taibbi, Correct Vision Laser Institute (Florida)
  • Elizabeth Urias, UT Southwestern 
  • Karima Khimani, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • David Szynkarski, Parkhurst NuVision
  • Eric Niespodzany, Pacific Clear Vision Foundation (Oregon)