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)