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Current Lab Personnel

Principal Investigator
Christine Wildsoet
PhD Dip Appl Sc (Optom) FAAO
Associate Professor in Optometry & Vision Science



Post-Doctoral Fellows
Zhan Zhang PhD (Fall 2005-)
Vivian Choh PhD (Fall 2001-Winter 2005)
Jodi Rymer PhD (Summer 2003- Summer 2005)
Priya Mathur PhD (Fall 2002-Fall 2004)
Sigrid Diether PhD (Spring 2001-Fall 2002)
Caroline Blackie OD, PhD (Fall 2000-Summer 2002)


Miscellaneous Research Personnel
Aaron Sullivan BA (Biology CORE coordinator, Fall 2004-)
Howard Ellenberger PhD (research associate; Summer 2002-)
Stephan De la Garza BA (Biology CORE coordinator, Fall 2003-Fall 2004)
Susan Kim BA (Fall 2004)
Holly Severson MS (Spring 2003-Fall 2003)
Chun Mei Xie BS (2000-2001)


Research Graduate Students (Vision Science)
Liu, Yue OD, MBA (Spring 2006- )
James Su BS (Biomed Eng) (Fall 2004-)
Janice Tarrant MEng, OD (Fall 2004-)
Kai Yew BS (grad. MS, 2004-)
Yibin Tian MS (OptEng) (Fall 2002-)
Larry Thrower BS (Fall 2004-Spring 2005)
Prema Ganesan BS (Biomed Eng) (Fall 2005, lab rotation)
Varuna Padmanabhan BS (Optom) (grad. MS, 2005)
Tonya Watson OD (Spring-Summer 2004, lab rotation)

OD Graduate Students
(NEI Summer Research Trainees* & Thesis Students)
Sara Chiu BA (2004-)
Brian Petracca BA (Pacific; Summer 2005)
Douglas Lee OD (Summers 2002, 2003; grad. 2005) ‡
Gloria Chiu BA (Summer 2005) ‡
Lydia Torres OD (grad. 2005)
Mary Sai Fong Kwong BA (Summers 2004, 2005) ‡
MinJung Lew OD (Summer 2002, 2003; grad. 2005) ‡
Michel Wong Nadel OD (grad. 2005)
Shannon Sallee OD (grad. 2005)
Annie Chin BA (Summers 2003, 2004) ‡
Carolyn Doi OD (grad. 2004)
Clark Fielden OD (grad. 2004)
Gabriela Bulwa OD (grad. 2004)
Janice Tarrant MEng, OD (grad. 2004)
Nina Tran BA (Summers 2003, 2004) ‡
Ann Nguyen OD (grad. 2003)
Charles Dominguez OD (grad. 2003)
David West OD (SCCO; Summer 2000; grad. 2003) ‡
Karsten Lee OD (grad. 2003)
Lisa Baloian OD (grad. 2003)
Michael Leong OD (grad. 2003)
Mico Liu OD (grad. 2003)
Tom Tseng OD (grad. 2003)
Wendy Ni OD (Summer 2000, 2001; grad. 2003) ‡
Joanne Soriano OD (grad. 2002)
Karin Rardin OD (grad. 2002)
Khanh Dao OD (grad. 2002)
Daniel Vu OD (SCCO; Summer 2000, 2001)


‡ Summer trainee lead to OD thesis
*This NEI training fellowship program funds the research training of OD students from around the US, with the ultimate goal of increasing the involvement of clinicians in research.



Undergraduate Students
(URAP program, honors thesis * & volunteers)

Yee Wan (Winnie) Cheung (2006-)
Younjung (Gina) Choi (2006-)
Thien Kim Nguyen (2006-)
Kevin Shieh (2006-)
Widya Mulyasasmita (2005-)
Ana Montanez (2005-)
Elizabeth Jovanovich (2005-)
Divya Chandrasekar (2004-)
Jason Luo (2004-)
Laura Modilevsky (2004-; Volunteer) ‡
Stephanie Stephanie (2004-)
Gabrielle Wong (2004-2005)
Huanxian (Kandy) Guan (2002-2005) * ‡
Supriya Rujendra Bhat (2004-2005)
Simon Dardashti (2002-2005)
Alice Liao (2004)
Brenda Yeh (2003-2004) ‡
Cindy Hwang (2002-2004) * ‡
Eileen Yie Ng (2004)* ‡
Gloria Chiu (2002-2004) *
Grace Kin Ling Wong (2003-2004) ‡
Jeannie Hernandez (2004) ¥
Jenny Banh (2003-2004)
Josephine Ni (2002-2004)
Kevin Kuo (2001-2004) * ‡
Paul Li (2004)
Shoichi Shimamoto (2003-2004)
Tina Banzon (2004) *
Ying Zhang (2004)
Adelyn Tsu (2000-2003) ‡
Ajay Manchandia (2000-2003) * ‡
Jennifer Shih (2003)
Mary Limbo (2000-2003) ‡
Nina Tran (2001-2003) * ‡
Young Sun Kim (2002-2003)‡
Maya Aizenman (2000-2002) ¥
Sabrina Chan (2000-2002) ‡
David Moore (2000-2001)
Elaine Chung (2001) ‡‡
Michel Wong (2000-2001) ‡‡
Min Yi (2001) ‡‡
Miriam Inbar (2000-2001)

‡ now in OD or MD programs or ‡‡ graduate of same
¥ graduate research program


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