Clinical Instructors 2009-2010:

	Habeeb Ahmad, MD Cornea SUNY Downstate Brooklyn, NY Dr. Ahmad received his combined bachelor's and medical degree through a 7-year advanced program at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education/State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine. Prior to his ophthalmology training at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, he completed an Internal Medicine residency at NYU/North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Ahmad is the recipient of a 2009 ASCRS Foundation Research Grant and 2010 PAAO Paul Kayser International Travel Scholar Award. His fellowship training at the Doheny Eye Institute is in the subspecialty of Cornea, External Diseases and Refractive Surgery.
	Matthew Bujak, MD Cornea University of Toronto Ontario, Canada Matthew Bujak graduated from Queens University as a physical therapist and worked for a period before returning for further education in medicine. He completed both his medical degree and ophthalmology residency at University of Toronto in Canada. He is board certified for ophthalmology in Canada and maintains and active interest in international ophthalmology. He is currently completing a Doheny Eye Institute fellowship in cornea and external ocular disease.
	Courtney Francis, MD Neuro-Ophthalmology University of Rochester Rochester, NY Courtney graduated from Brown University with a degree in neuroscience with a focus on visual neuroscience. She attended medical school at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and completed a residency in ophthalmology at the Callahan Eye Foundation at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Courtney is currently the neuro-ophthalmology fellow. She plans to continue her career in academic ophthalmology.
	Hani Salehi-Had, MD Retina UC Davis Davis, CA Hani received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree from the University of California, Davis. He completed his internship in Medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. He then went on to train at the Harvard Medical School Residency Program in Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA. Currently, he is a clinical fellow in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute. His research interests include ophthalmic imaging, intra-ocular drug delivery, anti-neovascular therapy, ocular trauma, and ophthalmic instrument design. He is currently involved in microsurgical instrument design at the Eye Concepts Laboratory and is working on characterizing retinal pigmented epithelial changes in different retinal diseases with multimodality imaging techniques.
	Michael Javaheri, MD Retina USC Los Angeles, CA Michael Javaheri received his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He completed his internship in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA and his residency in ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute/USC. Currently, he is a senior fellow in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery and is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Cell & Neurobiology, examining the role of electrical stimulation of Muller glia in relation to the intraocular retinal prosthesis.
	Leo Kim, MD, PhD Retina Yale New Haven, CT Leo Kim received his MD and PhD degrees from Yale University. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Doheny Eye Institute. He is currently the first year fellow in vitreoretinal surgery. Leo's research interests include retinal transplantation of retinal progenitor and hESC-derived RPE cells. He is also pursuing research on gene therapy and intraocular gene delivery using viral vectors. He plans to pursue a career in academic ophthalmology, combining his research and clinical interests.
	Ying Pan, MD. Glaucoma UCSF San Francisco, CA Ying attended the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. At UCSF, she analyzed treatment outcomes in hereditary retinoblastoma. During her residency at Doheny Eye Institute, Ying worked with the Multi-ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study (MEPEDS) and authored a publication describing population-based HOTV visual acuity results and visual acuity norms in young children. Her research with the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study (LALES) allowed her to evaluate four-year follow up results of intraocular pressure and its associated risk factors. Ying is also interested in the prevention and treatment of eye diseases in the developing world; her international research experience includes evaluating fungal keratitis at Aravind Eye Hospital in India and chlamydial ocular infections in Ethiopia. Ying is currently pursuing a glaucoma fellowship at Doheny Eye Institute.
	Purnima Sharad Patel, MD Medical Retina Vanderbilt Nashville, TN Purnima received her bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and went on to complete her medical degree there as well. She completed her internship in Transitional Medicine and her residency in Ophthalmology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Currently, Purnima is a medical retina fellow at Doheny Eye Institute
	Anne Rosenfeld, MD Oculoplastics University of Rochester Rochester, NY 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 is currently a fellow in oculoplastic surgery at Doheny and plans to follow this study with a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology.
	Elliot Sohn, MD Retina University of Washington Seattle, WA Elliott received his BA in chemistry from Williams College and his MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine internship followed by ophthalmology residency at the University of Washington. During a year-long medical retina fellowship at Moorfields he was lead investigator of a prospective study examining macular function in eyes with inherited retinal disease. Recipient of the Eugene de Juan fellowship award for innovation, he is senior fellow in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at DEI where he is active in clinical trials. His areas of interest include intraocular fibrosis due to severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy and recurrent retinal detachment, as well as the evaluation and treatment of inherited retinal diseases.