Alumni Board

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 …

Deanna S. Alexander, O.D., F.A.A.O graduated with her doctor of optometry from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Colorado native and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for her undergraduate degree. Dr. Alexander is a past President of the Colorado Optometric Association, served as President of the Southwest Council of Optometry, …

Dr. David Geffen is currently director of optometric and refractive services at the Gordon Schanzlin New Vision Institute-TLC in San Diego, California. He has lectured and written extensively on contact lenses, anterior segment, refractive surgery procedures and intraocular lenses. Dr. Geffen is a contributing editor for Optometry Times and Advanced Ocular Care as well as …