Course Directors
Harry W. Flynn, Jr., MD
J. Donald M. Gass Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Steven J. Gedde, MD
John G. Clarkson Chair in Ophthalmology
Vice Chair of Education
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
(Resident, Fellow 1996)
Moderators
Eduardo C. Alfonso, MD
Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology
Kathleen and Stanley J. Glaser Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
(Resident 1984)
Nathan W. Blessing, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
(Resident, Fellow 2018)
Maura Di Nicola, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Hong-Uyen Hua, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Ellen Koo, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Anh H. Pham, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
(Fellow 2022)
Angela Y. Zhu, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
(Fellow 2020)
Presenters
Ophthalmology Interns
Lauren N. Hucko, MD, MPH
Persiana S. Saffari, MD, MS
Michael Y. Zhao, MD
Second Year Residents
Spencer C. Barrett, MD
Caroline M. Borie, MD
Nina D. Diklich, MD
Sugi Panneerselvam, MD
Joseph D. Pecha, MD
Kai Seely, MD, MHSc
Zachary E. Snow, MD
Third Year Residents
Benjamin I. Meyer, MD
Yasman Moshiri, MD
Ronaldo Nuesi, MD
Elli A. Park, MD
Brandon H. Pham, MD
Akaanksh Shetty, MD
Jonathan S. Yi, MD
Fellows
Maura Abraham Marin, MD
Samera Ahmad, MD
Samantha M. Arsenault, MD
Daniel Balikov, MD, PhD
Nithya Boopathiraj, MD
Jeffrey Brown, MD
Natalie DeBolske, MD
Wiliam I Evans, MD
Omar J. Farhat, MD
Jacob Fondriest, MD
Juan S. Guerrero Rey, MD
Naomi E. Gutkind, MD
Christine Hakimeh, MD
Jerry Hsu, MD, MS
Maria A. Idarraga, MD
Marjan Iamni Fooldai, MD
Alessandro Amad Jammal, MD, PhD
Tyler Kaplan, MD
Hassan Khojasteh Jafari, MD
Lauren C. Kiryakoza, MD
Alireza Mahmoudi, MD
Ali Masoudi, MD
Michael T. Massengill, MD, PhD
Francesco Pozzo Giuffrida, MD, PhD
Tejus Pradeep, MD
Pablo E. Ravenna, MD
Landon J. Rohowetz, MD, MA
Potyra Rosa, MD
Raul Ruiz Lozano, MD
Athar Shadmani, MD
Imane Tarib, MD
Daniela Teijelo, MD
Despoina Theotoka, MD
Jiaxing Wang, MD, PhD
Ramsey Yusuf, MD
Charles Zhang, MD
Singerman Schwartz Scholars
Michael Coronado
Alejandro Perez, BS
Chloe Shields
Gelilah Yohannes, MS