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Anne E. Barañano, MD Anne studied Spanish at Haverford College and then obtained an MA in Spanish while studying in Madrid with Middlebury College. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has published research done with the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study. During residency at Doheny Eye Institute, her research interests included the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to study age-related macular degeneration and the use of Doppler OCT to study blood flow in HIV retinopathy. Currently, she is pursuing fellowship training in vitreoretinal disease and surgery at Doheny Eye Institute. |
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Omar R. Chaudhary, MD Omar attended Duke University, where he completed a double major in Biology and Economics. He subsequently attended medical school at the Yale School of Medicine where he wrote his thesis on paradigms of glaucoma drug delivery. After completing his internship at the Medical College of Georgia, he returned to the Yale Department of Ophthalmology for residency and participated in research projects in strabismus and endothelial keratoplasty. He also has an interest in international medicine, enjoys snowboarding, and is a fervent Duke basketball supporter. |
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John Hwang, MD, MBA John completed a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California. He received an MD from the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Hawaii and an Ophthalmology residency at the Columbia University Medical Center. He is currently a second year fellow in vitreoretinal surgery. |
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Anne R. Kao, MD (Rosenfeld) As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Anne studied English and Italian literature. During medical school at the University of Rochester in New York, she spent one summer at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, and one year as a research fellow at Doheny exploring the role of COX-2 expression in the retina. She is also interested in the practice of ophthalmology in the developing world. Anne completed her Ophthalmology residency at the Doheny Eye Institute. She recently completed a fellowship in oculoplastic surgery at Doheny and is currently a fellow in neuro-ophthalmology. |
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Ani Khondkaryan, MD Ani received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where she pursued research on the barrier functions of the corneal limbus cells. She completed her Ophthalmology residency at the Doheny Eye Institute, where she worked with Dr. Rohit Varma on the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study(LALES) group, studying refractive error and ocular biometric changes over time in Latino patients. She was also invited to present posters at ARVO meetings and a presentation at the annual American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting. She is currently a clinical fellow in glaucoma at the Doheny Eye Institute and plans to continue her research with the LALES group. |
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Veena R. Raiji, MD, MPH Veena Raiji grew up in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She completed a combined medical program at Michigan State University. Prior to matriculating into medical school, she received an MPH at the University of Michigan with a concentration in Health Management and Policy. She has worked with Pfizer clinical neurosciences where she wrote Phase III and IV clinical trials and also as a consultant for a Medicaid Health Maintenance Organization. She completed her Ophthalmology residency at George Washington University where her research primarily focused on uveitic diseases and nutritional supplementation in non-exudative age related macular degeneration. |
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Mingwu Wang, MD, PhD Dr. Wang earned his MD and PhD in China Medical University. Following the completion of his Ophthalmology residency at Doheny-USC, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, practicing comprehensive Ophthalmology. He returned to Doheny to pursue a cornea/external eye disease/refractive surgery fellowship while on sabbatical leave from the University of Arizona. His research interests focus on various mucins important for the ocular surface. |
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David Wu, MD, PhD David received his BS in Biomedical Science and his MD/PhD through the University of Michigan Medical School's Inteflex (Combined BS/MD) and Neuroscience Graduate programs. He completed his Transitional Year Internship through Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and returned to Ann Arbor for his residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center. He was then selected as a Heed Fellow (Society of Heed Fellows) and completed a research and medical retina fellowship at the University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center. He is now a fellow in vitreoretinal surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California. David has been involved in retinal research since his undergraduate days. He worked initially in the area of retinal regeneration. The bulk of his recent work has been focused on the physiology of the adult and developing retinal microvasculature. After fellowship, he hopes to continue on the physician-scientist track, combining an academic clinical retina practice with laboratory investigation. |