The Devgan Surgery Award

I have been fortunate to work with so many amazing ophthalmologists who have completed their ophthalmology residency at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles. Each year the best resident surgeon earns the Devgan Surgery Award.

Each of the ophthalmologists listed below spent time operating with me at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center during the three years of residency training at UCLA. These surgeons are now successful in their own right and many continue the tradition in their roles as professors at universities across the country.

• 2001
  • Sandy Lee MD –  Retina, Kaiser, Panorama City, CA
  • John Mandeville MD, PhD –  Oculoplastics, Private Practice, Boston, MA
  • Vincent Matteucci MD –  General, Private Practice, Seattle, WA
  • Olivia Ong MD, PhD – Glaucoma, Private Practice, Monrovia, CA
  • Stan Saulny MD – Oculoplastics, Private Practice, Encino, CA
  • Kevin Yuhan MD – General, Kaiser Permanente, Mission Viejo, CA
  • Xiaoyan Zhang MD, PhD – glaucoma, Private Practice, San Francisco, CA
• 2002
  • Alex Charonis MD –  Retina, Private Practice, Athens, Greece
  • Batool Jafri MD –  General, Private Practice, Los Angeles, CA
  • Bobbie Jahan-Parwar MD –  General, Kaiser, Baldwin Hills, CA
  • Rex Hamilton MD –  refractive, private practice, Santa Monica, CA
  • Leonid Lerner MD, PhD – Retina, Private Practice, Newport Beach, CA
  • Sok Nam MD –  General, Private Practice, Los Angeles, CA
  • Kayur Shah MD –  General/Uveitis, Facey Group, Mission Hills, CA
• 2003
  • Alison Wong MD – General, Kaiser Permanente, La Palma, CA
  • Michelle Britt MD – General. Kaiser, Baldwin Park, CA
  • Kim Drenser MD, PhD –  Retina, Faculty, Beaumont Univ, Michigan
  • Sarah Nehls MD –  Cornea, Faculty at Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  • Richard Ou MD –  Cataract, Private Practice & Faculty at Baylor
  • Stephen Tsang MD, PhD –  Retina, Faculty at Columbia Univ, New York
  • Irene Voo MD – Retina, Private Practice, Las Vegas, NV
• 2004
  • Amani Fawzi MD –  Retina, Faculty, Northwestern Univ, Chicago
  • Alisa Kim MD –  General, Private Practice, Rockville, Maryland
  • Tri Nguyen MD –  General, Private Practice, Orange County, CA
  • David Paikal MD –  General, Private Practice, Encino, CA
  • Michael Roberts MD –  General, Private Practice in Los Angeles
  • Kevin Shiramizu MD –  Retina, Kaiser Permanente, Bellflower, CA
  • Michael Tran MD –  General, Private Practice in Orange County, CA
• 2005
  • Emma Clay MD –  General, Private Practice, Lakewood, CA
  • Sean Dumars MD –  General, Kaiser Permanente, Downey, CA
  • Wei Jiang MD –  General, Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, CA
  • Vinit Mahajan MD, PhD –  Retina, Faculty, Stanford University
  • Tanuj Nakra MD –  Oculoplastics, Private Practice, Austin, TX
  • Polly Quiram MD, PhD –  Retina, Private Practice, Minneapolis, MN
  • Reem Renno MD – General, Private Practice, Houston, TX
• 2006
  • Christina Annunziata MD –  Oculoplastics, Private Practice, North Carolina
  • Candice Chen MD –  General, Private Practice, Santa Monica, CA
  • Leonardo Dacanay MD –  Cataract, Private Practice, Berkeley, CA
  • Shahriar Farzad MD –  General, Private Practice, Beverly Hills, CA
  • Dorothy Khong MD –  General, Private Practice, Alamdea, CA
  • Magdalena Kula Manchee MD –  General, Kaiser, Panorama City, CA
  • Samir Shah MD –  General, Private Practice, Huntington Beach, CA
• 2007
  • Louis Chang MD, PhD –  Retina, Private Practice, San Jose, CA
  • Hajir Dadgostar MD, PhD – Retina, Private Practice, Encino, CA
  • David Goldenberg MD –  Retina, Private Practice, Phoenix, AZ
  • Peter Kappel MD – General, Kaiser Permanente, Vacaville, CA
  • Patty Lin MD –  General, Kaiser Permanente, Harbor City, CA
  • Eddy Nguyen MD –  Medical Ophthalmologist & IT specialist, Van Nuys, CA
  • Tien-An Shih Yang MD –  Glaucoma, Kaiser, Vallejo, CA
• 2008
  • Lauren Eckstein MD, PhD –Oculoplastics, Kaiser, San Diego, CA
  • Farzad Jacob Khoubian MD – General, Private Practice, Torrance, CA
  • Yvonne Ou MD – Glaucoma, Faculty Member at UCSF
  • Stacy Pineles MD – Pediatric Neuro, Faculty Member, UCLA / Jules Stein
  • Lucy Shen MD – Glaucoma, Faculty at Mass Eye, Harvard Medical School
  • Karen Shih MD – General, Private Practice, Los Gatos, CA
  • Marc Shomer MD, PhD – Cataract, Private Practice, Upland, CA
• 2009
  • Allen Chiang MD – Retina, Faculty Member, Wills Eye
  • Allen Hu MD – Retina, private practice, Hagerstown, Maryland
  • Ahmad Mansury MD – General, private practice, Riverside, CA
  • Pradeep Prasad MD – Retina, faculty member at UCLA / Jules Stein
  • Sumit Shah MD – Retina, private practice, Newark, NJ
  • Tanvi Shah MD – General, private practice, Towson, Maryland
  • Tania Tai MD – glaucoma, Faculty, New York Eye & Ear,  Mount Sinai, NY
  • Barbara Yates MD – General, North Hollywood (originally a resident at MLK)
• 2010
  • Vicki Chan MD – speaker, coach, entrepreneur, ophthalmologist, Los Angeles, CA
  • Heather Chang MD – Retina, private practice, Arcadia, CA
  • Seongmu Lee MD – retina, Kaiser, Fullerton, CA
  • Monica Ralli Khitri MD – peds, faculty member, UCLA / Jules Stein
  • Gina Yoo Lee MD – glaucoma, private practice, Huntington Beach, CA
  • Le Yu MD – general, faculty member at University of Arizona, Tucson
  • Alex Yuan MD, PhD – retina, faculty member, Cleveland Clinic
• 2011
  • Darin Goldman MD – Retina, private practice, Boca Raton, FL
  • Jennifer Huang MD – General, private practice, Monterey Park, CA
  • Duncan Johnson MD – Cataract, private practice, Temecula, CA
  • Annie Lim MD – Glaucoma, Kaiser, Downey, CA
  • Vicky Pai MD – General, private practice, Glendora, CA
  • Louis Savar MD – Oculoplastics, Los Angeles, CA
  • Amelia Sheh MD – Glaucoma, Sutter Health, Fremont, CA
• 2012
  • Rob Beardsley MD – retina, private practice, Eugene, OR
  • Jamison Engle MD – cornea/cataract, private practice, Reno, NV
  • Shaheen Karim MD, PhD – retina, private practice, Corpus Christi, TX
  • Hanna Kim MD – glaucoma, Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, CA
  • John Pitcher MD – retina, private practice, New Mexico
  • Joanne Wen MD – glaucoma, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Allen Yeroushalmi MD – general, private practice, Los Angeles
  • Sandy Zhang-Nunes MD – oculoplastics, USC
• 2013
  • Wanda Hu MD – glaucoma, private practice, Ventura, CA
  • Crystal Hung MD – glaucoma, Kaiser, Santa Clara, CA
  • Helen Lee Kornmann MD PhD – glaucoma, private practice, Dallas
  • Bao-Chan Nguyen MD PhD – general, Newport News, VA
  • Ehsan Rahimy MD – retina, private practice, Palo Alto, CA
  • David Reed MD – retina, private practice, Boston
  • Neeta Varshney MD – general, private practice, San Diego, CA
  • Sylvia Yoo MD – pediatric ophthalmology, faculty Tufts University, Boston
• 2014
  • Meena George MD, PhD – retina, private practice, Chicago
  • Anthony Joseph MD – retina, private practice, Tucson, AZ
  • Tina Ku MD – glaucoma, Kaiser, Milpitas, CA
  • Robert Kule MD – glaucoma, private practice, Palo Alto, CA
  • Christine Lin MD – retina, Kaiser, Sacramento
  • Nate Roybal MD, PhD  – retina, private practice, New Mexico
  • Anitra Thomas Turner MD – glaucoma, faculty, St Louis University
  • Dawn Yang MD – retina, private practice, Boston, MA
• 2015
  • Jamie Alexander MD – cornea, private practice, Dallas
  • Melinda Chang MD – pediatric ophth and neuro, Children’s Hospital / USC
  • Bobby Lalane MD – retina, private practice, Del Rey Beach, Florida
  • Wenjing Liu MD – oculoplastics, private practice, Huntington Beach, CA
  • Aaron Nagiel MD, PhD – retina, Children’s Hospital + USC, Los Angeles, USC
  • James Sanchez MD – cornea / cataract, private practice, New Mexico
• 2016
  • Jenny Chen MD – glaucoma faculty, UC Davis, Sacramento
  • Xuejing Chen MD – Retina, Boston University
  • Diana Katsman MD, PhD – Retina, Private Practice, Southern California
  • Wonchon Lin MD – Cataract / Refractive, private practice, Las Vegas
  • Grant Moore MD – Oculoplastics, private practice, Phoenix
  • Mitra Nejad MD – general, faculty member, JSEI / UCLA
  • Julia Nemiroff MD – retina, private practice, Florida
  • Christian Sanfilippo MD – retina, private practice, Los Angeles
  • Mauricio Vargas MD, PhD – retinal genetics, OHSU, Portland
• 2017
  • Joseph Christenbury MD – cornea, private practice, Atlanta
  • Melinda Fry Binkley MD – general, Kaiser, Portland, Oregon
  • Janet Lee MD – glaucoma, private practice, Las Vegas
  • Tripper Sauer MD – glaucoma, private practice, Boston
  • Daniel Su MD – retina, private practice, Los Angeles
  • Andrew Tye MD – retina, Kaiser, Union City, California
  • Rany Woo MD – general, private practice, Southern California
  • Chengjie Zheng MD – glaucoma, Kaiser, Downey, California
• 2018
  • Todd Driver MD – cornea/general, private practice, Irvine, California
  • Juliet Essilfie MD – retina fellowship, NYU
  • Sean Garrity MD – retina, Tucson, Arizona
  • Wayne Gui MD – retina, Huntington Beach, California
  • Shawn Lin MD – cornea faculty, JSEI / UCLA
  • Erika Tanaka MD – general, Kaiser, Lafayette, Colorado
  • Elaine Wang MD – glaucoma, private practice, Laguna Hills, California
  • David Xu MD – retina, Wills Eye, Philadelphia
• 2019
  • Christine Bokman MD – oculoplastics, Ft Meyers, Florida
  • Benjamin Campbell MD – oculoplastics, Gilbert, Arizona
  • Elisha Garg MD – general, Kaiser, Santa Clara, California
  • Kirk Hou MD, PhD – retina faculty, UCLA
  • Patrick Lee MD – general, Kaiser, Fontana, California
  • Xiongfei Liu MD – glaucoma , Sacramento, CA
  • Eric Shieh MD – general, private practice, San Jose, California
  • Victoria Tseng MD, PhD – glaucoma faculty, Doheny / UCLA
• 2020
  • Judd Cahoon MD, PhD – general, private practice, Newport Beach, CA
  • Tamara Lenis, MD, PhD – retina, New Jersey
  • Cameron Pole MD – retina, Sacramento, CA
  • David Stark MD, PhD – general, private practice, Camarillo, California
  • Wade Stoddard MD – glaucoma, Winatchee, Washington
  • Sandip Suresh MD -uveitis, Houston, Texas
  • Qing Wang MD, PhD – glaucoma faculty, Columbia University, NYC
  • Madeline Yung MD – cornea faculty, UC San Francisco
• 2021
  • Mike DaSilva MD – cataract/refractive, private practice, Rapid City, SD
  • Eliot Dow MD, PhD – retina, Sacramento, CA
  • Nick Iafe MD – retina, St Louis, MO
  • Jaffer Kattan MD – glaucoma, Orange, CA
  • Anh Pham MD, PhD – glaucoma, Miami, FL
  • Ernest Puckett MD – glaucoma, Corvalis, OR
  • Austin Woolley MD – cataract/refractive, private practice, Provo, Utah
  • Andrea Yonge MD – glaucoma, Portland, OR
• 2022
  • Abhinav Golla MD –
  • Terry Hsieh MD, PhD – retina, UC Irvine
  • Yoon Lee MD – pediatric, New York City
  • Justin Park MD – glaucoma, Rochester, NY
  • Andres Parra MD – general, San Anotnio, TX
  • Ravin Sajnani MD – general, Hollywood, FL
  • Lynn Shi MD – glaucoma, New York City
  • Claire Smith MD – general, Kaiser, Portland, OR
• 2023
  • Adrian Au MD –
  • Giovanni Campagna MD –
  • Teresa Chen MD –
  • Cory Hoeferlin MD –
  • Amanda Lu MD –
  • Michael Mathison MD –
  • Alex Onishi MD –
• 2024
  • no further teaching of the UCLA resident classes