Faculty Directory

Visiting faculty ORBIS International, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Lectures and demonstrated modern vitreoretinal surgeries to local physicians, nurses, and students on "Flying-Eye Hospital", a DC-10 plane eqipped for modern eye surgery. Encouraged local health professionals' hands-on participation.

Visiting Professor

( 7/1999 )

Visiting faculty ORBIS International, Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China. Lectures and demonstrated modern vitreoretinal surgeries to local physicians, nurses, and students on "Flying-Eye Hospital", a DC-10 plane eqipped for modern eye surgery. Encouraged local health professionals' hands-on participation.

Canvasnack Mission in the Marshall Islands - Canvasback project in Marshall Islands: performed first eye laser treatment and taught laser techniques to local ophthalmologists on the Marshall Islands. Set up first laser machine (Air-cooled Britte Laser) in Majuro, Marshall Islands.

( 4/1987 )

Community Service

Lecturer at the Braille Institute of the Desert
( 2/1997 )
Lecturer at the Braille Institute of the Desert
( 2/1995 )
Lecturer at the Braille Institute of the Desert
( 1/1991 )

Church Activities

Charity Eye Clinic in Loma Linda, California - Loma Linda Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church Health Fair, Loma Linda, CA.

( 6/1987 )

Charity Eye Clinic in Alhambra, California - Los Angeles Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Charity Clinic, Alhambra, CA.

( 7/1984 )

Society Memberships (professional)

Macula Society
( 6/2012 - Present )
Club Jules Gonin - an international retina society
( 6/2012 - Present )

Committee Membership (non-LLU)

Guest editor, Journal of Ophthalmology, Special issue: The Unsteady Capsular Bag, Hindawi Publishing Corporation (Co-editors: Amar Agarwal, Clement Chan, Luther Fry, Tim Roberts).

( 0/2010 - 0/2011 )

Genentech Advisory Board, New York, NY. Dec 06, 2008, Dec 04, 2010.

( 12/2008 - 12/2010 )

Allergan Advisory Board, Atlanta, GA. Sept 12 and 13, 2009., Aug 28, 2010.

( 9/2009 - 8/2010 )

Member of organizing committee and abstract grader for 26^th annual meeting of American Society of Retina Specialists, Maui, HI. Oct 2008.

( 10/2008 )

Member of organizing committee and abstract grader for 25^th (silver anniversary) annual meeting of American Society of Retina Specialists, Indian Wells, CA, Dec 2007.

( 12/2007 )

Chairman - Ophthalmology Section, Department of Surgery, Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, California

( 1/1995 - 12/2004 )

Vice Chairman - Institutional Review Board, Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, California

( 1/1993 - 12/1995 )

Member of editorial board of the Scientific World JOURNAL, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

( 10/2012 - Present )

Vice Chairman - Laser Policy / Safety Committee member, Desert Regional Medical Center,Palm Springs, California.

( 1/1991 - Present )

Presentations -- Lay Audience

Lecture on age-related macular degeneration, Palm Springs, California - Lecture on age-related macular degeneration, Palm Springs Mall, Palm Springs, California. ( 4/1997 )

Lecture at the Braille Institute, Rancho Mirage, California - Lecture at the Macular Degeneration Seminar at the Braille Institute on age-related macular degeneration, Rancho Mirage, California. ( 2/1997 )

Lecture at the Braille Institute, Rancho Mirage, California - Lecture at Braille Institute on topic: Macular Degeneration, current concepts and treatment, Rancho Mirage, California. ( 1/1991 )

Lecture at the Braille Institute, Rancho Mirage, California - Update on the Treatment of Macular Degeneration?. Braille Institute, Rancho Mirage, CA. ( 2/1995 - Present )