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Do you teach surgery to other surgeons?
Yes, I'm an Asst. Clinical Professor for the UCLA Department of
Ophthalmology and the Jules Stein Eye Institute, and I teach
cataract surgery to the UCLA ophthalmology resident doctors
every week. I am the Chief of Ophthalmology at UCLA's
primary LA County teaching hospital, the Olive View-UCLA
Medical Center in Sylmar. I supervise and teach more than 100
cataract surgeries a year, and every single UCLA resident
ophthalmologist will spend time learning from me during the
course of their surgical training.
I'm the only UCLA faculty member to have been awarded the
Teaching Award twice. In addition, each year at UCLA the best
eye surgeon wins the Devgan Award for Excellence in
Ophthalmic Surgery. I'm honored and proud to have such a
prestigious award bare my name, especially since it focuses on
outstanding surgical skills - a mixture of hard work, quick
thinking, dexterity, and natural talent.
I also travel extensively to present lectures and perform live
surgery at major eye surgery meetings, both in the US and
internationally. In the last 3 years, I've taught in 30 countries,
on 5 continents. I make professional surgical teaching videos as
well as design eye surgical instruments. I enjoy writing regular
columns for multiple major eye surgery journals, particularly
about the technicalities of cataract and lens surgery.
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