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2002-04	Siobahn (Beaton) Gallagher	Staff, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2004-06	Michelle (Gabriele) Sandrian	Staff Scientist, Diagnostic and Surgical Devices Branch, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
2006-08	Kelly A (Townsend) Jennings	Technology Transfer Engineer, Heartflow, Redwood City, CA, USA
2006-07	Rheena Ware	Planning Consultant, Genesis Planning, Houston, TX, USA
2006-07	Areej Sajjad	Electrical Design Engineer, Zoll, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2008-10	Lindsey S. Folio	Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Omnyx, Beaverton, OR, USA
2010-11	Nick Apollo
2010-12	Jessica Nevins	Business & Systems Integration Analyst, Accenture, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2010-12	Bo Wang	Assistant Professor, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
2010-13	Zachary Nadler	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2013-17	Katie Lucy	Graduate Student, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2014-15	Michael Meehan
2014-16	Michael Russitano
2018-19	Alangoya Tezel	M.D. Candidate at University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2019-20	Jason Greenfield	Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2020-21	Priya Achanta	Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2020-21	Ishan Kasat	NYU Stern School of Business, New York, NY, USA
2021-23	Chisom Madu	City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
2021-22	Jonathan Fam	NYU, New York, NY, USA
2021-26	Allison Toyos	NYU, New York, NY, USA
2022-23	Rachel Matayev	NYU, New York, NY, USA
2022-23	Nitisha Ponnappan	NYU, New York, NY, USA
2022-23	Rania Zaki	NYU, New York, NY, USA
2025-	Mahila Krishnamurthy (Alumni Summer Research Fellowship)	SUNY Downstate Health Science University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2001-02	Anthony Correnti	NH Eye Associates, Manchester, NH, USA
2002-03	Edward Lai	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
2002-03	Patty Lin	Ophthalmologist, South Bay Medical Center, Harbor City, CA, USA
2003-04	Daniel M Stein	Associate Chief Information Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
2003-04	Tara Cronin	The Eye Care Group, Branford, CT, USA
2004-05	Sandra (Fernando) Sieminski	Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
2004-05	Avni (Patel) Vyas	Clinical Instructor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Retina Vitreous Consultant, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2005-06	Eric Wu	Batavia Ophthalmology, Batavia, NY, USA
2005-06	Amar Joshi	Associate Professor, Medical Director, Director of Oculoplastic & Orbital Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology, University of New Mexico Eye Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2006-07	Kim Gene	Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
2006-07	Hanny Isawi	FHN Ophthalmology, Freeport, IL, USA
2007-08	Diane Chang	Maryland Eye Associates, Prince Frederick, MD, USA
2008-09	David Lally	Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, New England Retina Consultants, Springfield, MA, USA
2009-10	Palak Sitwala
2009-10	Allison Ungar	Department of Psychiatry, Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, NY, USA
2009-11	Niveditha Pinnamaneni	Diagnostic Radiology, New York, NY, USA
2011-12	Andrew Francis	Chicagoland Advanced Retina Care, Addison, IL, USA
2012-13	Fawzi Hindi	Neurology, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, FL, USA
2012-13	Michael Burrow	Ophthalmologist, Rocky Mountain Eye Care, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (CSTP Scholarship)
2012-13	Igor Bussel	Clinical Instructor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California – Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA (CSTP Scholarship)
2013-14	Dingle Foote	Radiology, Memorial Hermann, Austin, TX, USA
2014-16	Jordan Dubique	Internal Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2015-16	Zach Dong	Pathology, Kootenai Health, Spokane Valley, WA, USA (Research to Prevent Blindness Scholarship)
2017	Julia Fallon	Ophthalmologist, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
2017-19	Jenna Tauber (MSCI Scholarship)	Residency, Montefiore Health, New York, NY, USA
2017-18	Lauren Seo	Residency, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2017-18	Aushim Kokroo (MSCI Scholarship)	Fellow, Department of Cardiology, Northwell Health, New York, NY, USA
2018-19	Jennifer Lopez	Family Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2018	Lucy Cobb	Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2018-19	Ravneet Rao (MSCI Scholarship)	Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwell Health, New York, NY, USA
2018-19	Nathaniel Tracer	Residency, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2018-20	Samantha Palmer	Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019-21	Alexi Geevarghese (MSCI Scholarship)	Residency, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2019-20	Gabriel Shakarov	Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2021-22	Eitan Shemuelian	Medical Student, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022-23	Phil Martinez	Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2022-23	Ashley Sohn	Medical Student, Dartmouth School of Medicine, Dartmouth, NH, USA
2023-24	Leon Kamen	Medical Student, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023	Wen Huang	Medical Student, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2024	Jin Ming Lin	Medical Student, CUNY School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2024-25	Jacob Lester (MSCI Scholarship)	Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2024-25	Andrea Bao	Medical Student, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2024-25	Jacqueline Chen	Medical Student, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2025	Yooree Grace Chung, PhD	Medical Student, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2023-25	Catherine Lalman	Medical Student, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2005-09	Jongsick Kim	Staff Scientist, Topcon Medical Systems, Oakland, NJ, USA
2006-11	Michelle (Gabriele) Sandrian	Staff Scientist, Diagnostic and Surgical Devices Branch, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
2008-09	Andrea Burchers
2008-12	Larry Kagemann	Scientific Review Officer, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2009-15	Yun Ling	Statistician, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
2010-15	Chieh-Li Chen	Software Engineer, Nautilus Biotechnology, Seattle, OR, USA
2012-16	Bo Wang	Assistant Professor, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA (CSTP Scholarship)
2014-16	Anusha Rangarajan	Data Scientist, Irvine, CA, USA
2018	Shijie Li	Master Student, NYU Tandan School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA
2018-23	Zhiqi Chen	ML Video Engineer, Apple, Cupertino, CL, USA
2022	Shreyas Master Student, NYU Tandan School of Engineering, New	Master Student, NYU Tandan School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA
2025-	Gabriella C. Schwantes	Wills Eye Hospital and Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2006-12	Juan Xu	Staff Scientist, Siemens, Beijing, China
2016	Daniel Ruminski	Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
2016-21	Heather Livengood	Department of Occupational Therapy, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, USA
2018	Helen Wang	Beijing, China
2018-22	Rozita Ghassabi	Visionix, Redwood, CA, USA
2019-20	Behnam Tayebi	Inscopix, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2020-23	Anse Vellappally	Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
2020-22	Teesta Naskar	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
2022-24	Darlene Rose Archer	Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

2006-09	Larissa Camejo	Ophthalmologist, Jupiter Medical Center, Jupiter, FL, USA
2007-08	Mina Pantcheva	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University
2010-12	Nancy Buchser	Ophthalmologist, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
2011-14	Jacek Kotowski	Ophthalmologist, Rocky Mountain Eye Center, Butte, MT, USA
2013-16	Anton Kolomeyer	Ophthalmologist, Eye Associate, Vineland, NJ, USA
2016-17	Kenny Taubenslag	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD, USA
2019-21	Johnny Li	Ophthalmologist, Advanced Eye Care, New York, NY, USA

2002-03	Ali Aydin	Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Medipol University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
2004-05	Adriana Alvim	Ophthalmologist, Department of Ophthalmology, Federal Bonfioli University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2004-06	Zvia Burgansky-Eliash	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
2004-05	Ying Zi Pan	Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
2005-06	Anita Manassakorn	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2005-07	Kyung Rim Sung	Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ulsan, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
2005-06	Tarkan Mumcuoglu	Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Gulhane Military Medical School, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey
2007	Victoria Christopoulos	Ophthalmologist, Eyepolis, Homestead, PA, USA
2007-08	Vesna Jurisic	Ophthalmic Photographer, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Fulbright Scholarship)
2008-09	Parul Sony	Ophthalmologist, Complete Eye Care, Gurgaon, India
2010-11	Jacek Kotowski	Ophthalmologist, Rocky Mountain Eye Center, Butte, MT, USA
2011	Michele Iester	Professor, Clinica Oculistica, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
2012-13	Xuejiao Yang
2014-15	Eric Brown	Glaucoma Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
2014-15	Julia Polat	Ophthalmologist, Glaucoma and Cataract Consultants, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2014-15	Tigran Kostanyan	Ophthalmologist, Wellish Vision Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2016-17	Fabio Lavinsky	Wills Eye Hospital and Professor, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016-24	Ángeles Ramos	Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY USA
2019-20	Anoop Sainulabdeen	Associate Professor, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Kalpetta, Kerala, India
2019-20	Jonathan Kfir	Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
2019-20	Yoav Glidal	Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwell Health, New York, NY, USA
2020-23	Maroun Khreish	Attending, Hillel Yaffa Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
2023-25	Gabriela C. Schwantes	Residency and Graduate School, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2024-25	Sohaib Fasih-Ahmad	Residency, Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2025- 2026	Gabriel Jimenez Berrios	Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA (The Glaucoma Foundation/Research to Prevent Blindness Fellowship in Glaucoma)
2025- 2026	Rommy Bejjani	Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA