Accreditations/Awards

• Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor, 2016-2018
• Los Angeles Magazine Top Docs 2018
• America’s Most Honored Professionals-Top 1%, 2016-2017
• On-Time Physician Award, 2014-2015,2017-2018
• Super Doctor, Best of Los Angeles 2013
• Talk of the Town Award, Excellence in Customer Satisfaction
• Most Compassionate Doctor Award, 2011-2015, 2017-2018
• Patient’s Choice Award, 2011-2015, 2017-2018
• Certificate of Appreciation, 2011
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2003
• Shulman Fellow, California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, May, 2007
• Certificate of Recognition, New York City Police Department, January, 2009
• Best Research Paper, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, June 2010.
• Alternate Councilor to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, elected by the Board of Trustees, California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, 2008-2009
• Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2007
• Merck Award for Academic Excellence, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), 2004
• Platform Speaker, UCSB Health Professionals Association, January 17, 2004, “Medical School–From Getting in to Graduating”
• Stanley Fellow at Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, June-Aug, 1999.
• Eugene Harold Payne Scholarship, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2003
• Glaser Memorial Scholarship, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2003
• Stavri and Olga Joseph Scholarship, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2002
• Medical College of Wisconsin Alumni Association Scholarship Award, 2002
• Musachio Scholarship, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2000