Department of Ophthalmology
California Pacific Medical Center

The Department of Ophthalmology at California Pacific Medical Center was founded more than 135 years ago with the appointment of Dr. Adolph Barkan as the first professor of Ophthalmology on the West Coast in 1873.

This century-plus heritage of excellence in patient care, medical education and research at CPMC traces its origins to the Gold Rush days of San Francisco when the first medical school, Cooper Medical College, was established on the West Coast by Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper in 1858. Dr. Barkan was the first professor named to the faculty and the founding chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology. He continued his leadership of the Department until his retirement in 1912.

Cooper Medical College became the Stanford School of Medicine in 1909. In 1959, when Stanford University made the decision to move the medical school to its Palo Alto campus, a significant number of the medical staff elected to stay in San Francisco and start a new hospital. This dedicated faculty formed the academic core of the new hospital, originally named Presbyterian Medical Center, which today is California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC).

During the ensuing decades, CPMC and the Department of Ophthalmology have grown in stature and reputation. The Department of Ophthalmology has been training residents for over 80 years and is one of the premier eye departments in the country, as well as one of the most outstanding training programs of its kind in the United States. It is a mecca for residents and fellows who desire the opportunities for rigorous ophthalmic training that have defined this program since its founding.

The core faculty of the residency training program includes many nationally respected ophthalmologists who volunteer their time to teach. The residents develop their clinical expertise during three years of ophthalmic training, which takes place in a variety of practice settings across San Francisco and the East Bay. In their first year of training, residents provide medical and surgical eye care at the Alameda County medical Center in Oakland. Designated as a Level I trauma center, it serves a diverse population many of whom have few other alternatives for quality care. During the third year, residents return to San Francisco and rotate through the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco before returning to CPMC as Chief Resident.

Research is an integral part of the residency training program at CPMC. Residents are required to actively participate in some area of research of their own choosing, in conjunction with members of the Eye Department and with Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. The residents and faculty are involved in many clinical and multi-center projects. Current investigations include research to better understand bacterial growth in plastic ocular prostheses and maculopathy associated with antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection. Members of the department are at work on several clinical trials for age-related macular degeneration treatment using newly developed compounds.

Pacific Vision Foundation supports educational and research efforts within the Department. Please visit the About PVF section of this website for more information.

Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center
2100 Webster Street, Suite 219
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-600-3937

FACULTY

Susan H. Day, MD
Department Chair and Program Director

CLINICAL SERVICE CHIEFS

Kevin Denny, MD, Cataract/Anterior Segment
Donald C. Fletcher, MD, Low Vision Rehabilitation
William V. Good, MD, Pediatric/Strabismus
Emmett Cunningham, MD, PhD, Uveitis
David Heiden, MD, International Ophthalmology
Erich P. Horn, MD, Comprehensive
Richard Imes, MD, Neuro-ophthalmology
J. Michael Jumper, MD, Retina
Andrew Sorenson, MD, Refractive Surgery
Marc F. Lieberman, MD, Glaucoma
William H. Spencer, MD, Ocular Pathology
Rona Silkiss, MD, Oculoplastics
David W. Vastine, MD, Cornea

Everett Ai, MD
Gary Aguilar, MD
Arthur W. Allen, Jr., MD
Jeffrey Azus, OD
Jason Bacharach, MD
Susy Balla, OD
Denice Barsness, COMT
Dilys Bart, MD
Howard Bloom, MD
Sid Borirak, MD
Blaine Boyden, MD
Barry Breaux, MD
John Campbell, MD
Richard Chan, OD
Devron H. Char, MD
Irene M. Chew, OD
Stewart Daniels, MD
David Demartini, MD
Christopher M. DeBacker, MD
Arthur Fu, MD
Evelyn Fu, MD
Anne Fung, MD
Wayne E. Fung, MD
Michael Gee, OD
George Hamilton, MD
Melanie Hom, MD
Charlene Hsu-Winges, MD
Roger C. Husted, MD
Thomas Hwang, MD
Kenneth Ip, MD
Andrew Iwach, MD
Mark Jacobson, MD
Robert N. Johnson, MD
Christine Kent, O.T.R.
Barry Kerman, MD
James Knapp, MD
Bernd M. Kutzscher, MD
Ethan Kutzscher, MD
George K. Lee, OD
Kevin Lee, MD
Craig Leong, MD
Danny Lin, MD
Jane Loman, MD
Susan Longar, MD
Taliva Martin, MD
H. Richard McDonald, MD
Stephen A. Meffert, MD
Eve Moscato, MD
Kathryn Najafi, MD
Jon Nekota, OD
Robert A. Nelson, MD
Daniel C. Ng, OD
John Norris, MD
Karen Oxford, MD
W. Lamont Pack, MD
Eun-Ha Park, MD
Steven Pascal, MD
T. Otis Paul, MD
Philip Penrose, MD
Terri Pickering, MD
Steve Post, MD
Sunita Radhakrishnan, MD
Subhransu Ray, MD
August Reader, III, MD
Timothy Sanders, OD
Suketu Sanghvi, MD
Lee K. Schwartz, MD
Alan B. Scott, MD
J. Stuart Seiff, MD
John Shin, MD
Scott So, MD
John Spallone, OD
Victor Stern, OD
George H. Tanaka, MD
Daniel Ting, MD
Michael I. Turan, MD
Allen Z. Verne, MD
Robert G. Webster, Jr., MD
Clark Welsh, OD
Jon Wender, MD
A. Sydney Williams, MD
Richard Wolitz, MD
James Wong, OD
Johnny Wong, OD
Patricia Wong, MD
Robert Wong, MD
Jonah Yee, OD
Robert Yohai, MD
Steven Young, BCO
Xiaoyan Y. Zhang, MD