Megan Collins, MD

Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Internship: Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Anna Gabrielian, MD

Undergraduate: University of Chicago

Medical School: Albany Medical College

Research: Anna worked on a project investigating visual outcomes and retinal anatomy of patients with tractional retinal detachment before and after pars plana vitrectomy, with and without internal limiting membrane peeling, which she presented at ARVO.

Other experience: Anna has been a section journalist and writer for her column “In the Spotlight” in Retina Times (an ASRS publication) since 2006.

Internship: Internal Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL

Gioconda Mojica, MD

Undergraduate: University of Texas, Austin

Medical School: University of Chicago – Pritzker School of Medicine

Internship: Transitional, MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL

Rominder Momi, MD

Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles – David Geffen SOM

Research: Rominder investigated the genetic basis of corneal dystrophies with Dr. Anthony Aldave at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA.

Internship: Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Education Program, Fresno, CA

Ajay Singh, MD

Medical School: JJM Medical College, Davangere, India

Research: Master of Science (MS), research at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco

Internship: Internal Medicine, Hospital of San Raphael/Yale affiliate, New Haven, CT

Armin Afshar, MD

Undergraduate/Medical School:  University of Illinois College of Medicine, combined BS/MD honors program

Other Graduate: MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Research: Armin conducted research during medical school investigating corneal epithelial stem cells and also presented a poster at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting on a novel method of teaching direct ophthalmoscopy to medical students.

Other Experience: Health Policy & Administration fellow, Johns Hopkins

Internship: Transitional, Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL

Juner Colina-Luquez, MD

Undergraduate/Medical School: Central University of Venezuela, Caracas

Other experience: Ophthalmology Residency – Francisco A. Risquez Hospital, Caracas, Venezuela; Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship with mentor Dr. Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, Association to Prevent Blindness, Mexico City

Research: Juner completed a medical and research retina fellowship with mentor Dr. Peter E. Liggett of Yale University prior to joining the University of Chicago program.

Internship: Surgery, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Joshua Fernandes, MD

Undergraduate:  Tulane University

Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine

Research: During medical school, Josh had the opportunity to live and work at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar. Under the mentorship of National Eye Institute Director Dr. Paul Sieving, Josh completed clinical as well as laboratory-based studies of inherited retinal dystrophies.  

Other experience: With an interest in international medicine, Josh spent a summer living in Guatemala and volunteering in rural health clinics. He has also spent many years advocating for the blind and visually imparied through his work with National Federation of the Blind.