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Did you know? 💡 Although the retina only detects three primary colors—red, blue and green—the brain blends them to perce...
12/26/2025

Did you know? 💡 Although the retina only detects three primary colors—red, blue and green—the brain blends them to perceive over a million different colors. 🌈

🤝 Meet Aniket Ramshekar, MD, PhD, a SOAR resident at the Byers Eye Institute❗ 🏠 Hometown: Novi, Michigan 📚 Education: U...
12/24/2025

🤝 Meet Aniket Ramshekar, MD, PhD, a SOAR resident at the Byers Eye Institute❗

🏠 Hometown: Novi, Michigan

📚 Education: University of Michigan (Honors BS—Cellular and Molecular Biology, M.S.E.—Bioengineering), University of Utah (MD, PhD)

🌲 Why Stanford? I chose Stanford to continue my physician-scientist training as it offers a unique opportunity to advance my clinical and research goals while in residency. I am also excited to train in the Bay Area alongside my wife, who is pursuing her pediatric residency here!

🥼 Career aspirations: Academic ophthalmology

🌁 Favorite thing to do in the Bay Area: Trying new restaurants, watching sports, growing my balcony garden.

🎻 Fun fact: I play Carnatic violin — a classical South Indian style of music I learned to play as a child.

12/22/2025

When Gen Z wrote the marketing script and our faculty understood the assignment. 🔥

Happy Match Day! We’re thrilled to welcome our new advanced trainees! We're also proud to congratulate our Class of 2026...
12/19/2025

Happy Match Day! We’re thrilled to welcome our new advanced trainees! We're also proud to congratulate our Class of 2026 residents, all of whom matched at their first-choice advanced training programs! 🙌 🎊

New advanced trainees:
🌟 Rachel Tandias - Cornea
🌟 Alan Kong - Cornea
🌟 Sahil Shah - Glaucoma *Completed residency at Byers Eye and will continue advanced training with us.
🌟 Gina Yu - Glaucoma *Completed residency at Byers Eye and will begin her second advanced training program with us.
🌟 Sen Yang - Glaucoma
🌟 Sebastian Garza Hernandez - Neuro-Ophthalmology
🌟 Joana Andoh - Retina
🌟 Eleanor Burton - Retina
🌟 Shefali Sood - Medical Retina
🌟 Oscar Otero - Medical Retina
🌟 Josiah To - Innovation

Class of 2026 residents:
🎓 Cindy Zhao
🎓 Anna Toth
🎓 Lyna Azzouz
🎓 Sahil Shah *Remaining at Byers Eye for advanced training.

Did you know? 💡 Each of your eyes is linked to your brain by more than a million nerve fibers—called axons—from retinal ...
12/19/2025

Did you know? 💡 Each of your eyes is linked to your brain by more than a million nerve fibers—called axons—from retinal ganglion cells, carrying everything you see in real time. 👁️⚡

December is Give the Gift of Sight Month! 🎁 👀Declared by Prevent Blindness—a non-profit that advocates and empowers peop...
12/18/2025

December is Give the Gift of Sight Month! 🎁 👀

Declared by Prevent Blindness—a non-profit that advocates and empowers people to make healthy vision a priority—Give the Gift of Sight Month is an annual observance aimed at raising awareness about the importance of eye health and supporting sight-saving programs.

Learn more about the Byers Eye Institute's commitment to preserving vision and eradicating blindness: https://buff.ly/AGZLD2x

🤝 Meet Palmer Feibelman, MD, a family ophthalmic innovation advanced trainee at the Byers Eye Institute❗ 🎯 Subspecialty...
12/17/2025

🤝 Meet Palmer Feibelman, MD, a family ophthalmic innovation advanced trainee at the Byers Eye Institute❗

🎯 Subspecialty: Comprehensive ophthalmology

🏠 Hometown: Macon, Georgia

📚 Education: Georgia Tech (BS), Medical College of Georgia (MD), Brown University (Residency)

🌲 Why Stanford: Incredibly unique opportunity to learn the art of innovating in the field of ophthalmology from the most accomplished mentors in the game!

🥼 Career aspirations: Develop novel medical devices to improve the efficiency and quality of ophthalmic patient care, while continuing to practice comprehensive ophthalmology.

🌁 Favorite thing to do in the Bay Area: My wife and I enjoy putting some miles on the stroller as we explore the beautiful Bay Area trails and sidewalks with our new baby boy!

👶 Fun facts: Prior to residency, I served in the US Navy and Marines as a flight surgeon for an F-18 squadron. While in residency, I fell in love with another ophthalmology trainee, and eventually proposed on the hospital helipad! We are now married and just welcomed a baby boy to the family.

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Ting for being ranked 2nd overall in ophthalmology on the 2025 ScholarGPS Top Scholars lis...
12/16/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Ting for being ranked 2nd overall in ophthalmology on the 2025 ScholarGPS Top Scholars list (based on prior activity from 2021 to 2025)!

Top Scholars are individuals whose publication records associate them with the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide in their respective field, discipline, or specialty.

Check out the full list here: https://buff.ly/XXz9D2s

Congratulations to SOAR resident Aniket Ramshekar, MD, PhD, on receiving the 2025 VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Resea...
12/15/2025

Congratulations to SOAR resident Aniket Ramshekar, MD, PhD, on receiving the 2025 VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award!

The VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award supports early stage investigators conducting relevant research projects in macular and retinal disease and encourages a career devoted to retinal disease and research.

12/12/2025

Come spend a day with global ophthalmology fellow Dr. Blake Snyder on his recent trip to Kathmandu, Nepal with the Cure Blindness Project! 🇳🇵 🌏

Learn more about the Cure Blindness Project here: https://buff.ly/wdfQZMd

We’re proud of our faculty members Yang Sun, MD, PhD; and Daniel Palanker, PhD; whose research papers ranked #7 and #1...
12/11/2025

We’re proud of our faculty members Yang Sun, MD, PhD; and Daniel Palanker, PhD; whose research papers ranked #7 and #10 on the Top 10 Breakthroughs in Ophthalmology Research list by Ophthalmology Breaking News! 🔬

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