Alumni Board

Dr. David Yang is the Chief of Optometry for the VA Palo Alto Health Care System where he also serves as the Co-Residency Supervisor for two optometry residency programs affiliated with the UC Berkeley School of Optometry (UCBSO). He completed his residency training in Geriatric/Hospital-Based Optometry at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center in …

Daphne Chan, OD, FAAO, is a San Francisco native who is proud to serve as an alumni board member of the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science. As a board member, her priorities are in increasing diversity and access to Berkeley Optometry, and reducing expenses for optometry students while maximizing their educational opportunities. …

Dr. Brian Levy is CEO of InflammX Therapeutics a clinical stage company developing products targeting Connexin43 Hemichannel modulation to inhibit activation of the inflammasome pathway of inflammation. This pathway is now known to be a common pathway in many diseases including, microvascular inflammation in ophthalmic disease (AMD and DR) and autoinflammation in a number of …

1969 — BA 1971 — BS 1973 — OD 1973 — Cohn award for Optometric Research 1975 — President Mt Airy Lions Club- (NC) 1977 — Fellow American Academy of Optometry 1976-1979 — Surry County (NC) Board of Health 1977 & 1999 — NC Optometric Legislative Committee North Carolina Optometric Society 2000 — President North …

Dr. Kwan is a 2009 graduate of Berkeley Optometry and went on to do a contact lens and dry eye residency at Southern California College of Optometry. He taught and saw patients there for eight years, serving as chief of the contact lens, dry eye, and refractive surgery service. In 2018, he moved with his …

Dr. Sheryl Reaves is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she attended the University of California, Berkeley for her undergraduate studies and for Optometry school. She then completed her residency in ocular disease at the Brooklyn and St. Albans Veterans Affairs program in New York. Dr. Reaves has a diverse practice background, including …

Karen Griffith did her undergraduate education at University of California, Davis, completing a Bachelor of Science in Zoology. She graduated from the University California Berkeley School of Optometry in 1988. The class of ’88 introduced the “opto-bear” design as a fund-raising campaign for student participation in AOSA events. In 2006, Karen completed a Masters in …

Dr. Rand Siekert joined Tucson Eye Care in January 2020. Prior to this, he was at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona for 23 ½ years as an assistant clinical professor of Ophthalmology. He was involved with patient care, resident teaching and research. From 1991 to 1996 Dr. Siekert was clinical faculty …

Timothy C. Jankowski has been in private practice in Huntington Beach since 1981. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry in June 1980 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. He has served as an Expert Examiner for the California State Board of Optometry and as a Clinical …