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.

The following list is by year of graduation from the program. In addition, the winner of the Devgan Surgery Award is noted.

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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award (unofficial award this year)
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award (first official year)
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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award (now a private award)
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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, private practice, 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
2019
- Christine Bokman MD – oculoplastics, Ft Meyers, Florida
- Benjamin Campbell MD – oculoplastics, Gilbert, Arizona
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- 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 fellowship, Cornell, NYC
- Cameron Pole MD – retina fellowship, USC, Los Angeles
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- David Stark MD, PhD – general, private practice, Visalia, 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
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- Eliot Dow MD, PhD – research fellowship, Stanford
- Nick Iafe MD – retina fellowship, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
- Jaffer Kattan MD – glaucoma fellowship, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
- Anh Pham MD, PhD – glaucoma fellowship, Bascom Palmer Eye Instititue
- Ernest Puckett MD – glaucoma fellowship, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
- Austin Woolley MD – cataract/refractive, private practice, Provo, Utah
- Andrea Yonge MD – glaucoma fellowship, Shiley Eye Institute, US San Diego
2022 – no Devgan Surgery Award this year
- Abhinav Golla MD –
- Terry Hsieh MD, PhD –
- Yoon Lee MD –
- Justin Park MD –
- Andres Parra MD –
- Ravin Sajnani MD –
- Lynn Shi MD –
- Claire Smith MD –
2023
- Adrian Au MD –
- Giovanni Campagna MD –
  - Winner of the Devgan Surgery Award
- Teresa Chen MD –
- Cory Hoeferlin MD –
- Amanda Lu MD –
- Michael Mathison MD –
- Alex Onishi MD –
2024
- no further teaching of the UCLA resident classes

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