Emeryville Clinic Faculty Testimonials
Dr. Kuniyoshi Kanai
Associate Clinical Professor; Clinical Director of the Emeryville Clinic For decades, the UC Berkeley Eye Clinic has been a pillar of care for the Bay Area. While our expertise and service offerings have grown exponentially, our physical footprint often acted as a silent ceiling. I am incredibly moved to serve as the Clinic Director during this transition, as the Emeryville clinic finally provides the space and accessibility to match our ambitions.I am particularly excited to see us “unleash” our full potential in pediatric-oriented services. By removing the constraints of the past, we are creating a home where innovation in children’s vision care can flourish without limits. I am truly grateful to lead our team into this new era of expanded access and world-class care.
Dr. Ceila Gong
Assistant Clinical Professor; Emeryville Clinic Chief, Myopia Control Clinic The opening of the Emeryville clinic marks an exciting moment for pediatric eye care in the Bay Area. As myopia continues to rise worldwide, this thoughtfully designed space for our myopia management clinic will allow us to focus on patient education, early detection, and personalized interventions. In particular, I am excited that our proximity to the other pediatric specialties will allow our faculty, residents, and students to provide a truly coordinated and comprehensive care centered on preserving each child’s long-term vision for the future.
Dr. Anne Yun Keu Tasaki
Assistant Clinical Professor; Emeryville Clinic Chief, Pediatrics The new Emeryville clinic represents an exciting opportunity to expand access to pediatric and specialty eye care for our community. We are committed to delivering exceptional, inclusive, and integrated care for children and individuals with special needs, while also creating meaningful hands-on learning opportunities for our optometry students. Our goal is for every student to leave fully equipped and confident in providing outstanding pediatric eye care, no matter where their professional journey leads.
Dr. Christina Wilmer
Associate Dean of Clinical Initiatives, Health Sciences Clinical ProfessorOur new Emeryville Clinic will embody the innovative eye care that the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science is known for. The emphasis on pediatric vision care will provide access to expert eye care from top notch doctors, residents and interns, for our youngest patients and their families. I am excited to welcome the Bay Area community to our newest clinic, and look forward to delivering the kind of world-class primary and specialty vision care that can improve the visual and functional lives of our patients.
Debora M. Lee Chen, OD, MPH, FAAO
Associate Professor of Clinical OptometryChief, Binocular Vision Clinic
Chief Mentor, Residency in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation
What excites me about our new Center in Emeryville is the ability to truly approach children’s vision from an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and seamlessly integrated approach that puts the child first, and optometry and vision care as the “integrator.” We’ll be able to serve children’s vision needs from managing myopia control, pediatric (and adult) concussion and acquired brain injuries, sports vision enhancement, binocular vision disorders, vision related learning challenges, needs of special populations, and more; all within a few footsteps from one another.
We’ll be able to serve the patient, their families, and their support networks directly while simultaneously training our next generation of clinicians with this forward-thinking model of healthcare, using the latest technology.
Sarah Singh, OD, PhD, FAAO
Assistant Professor of Clinical Optometry & Vision Science The Emeryville clinic offers an opportunity to leverage the diverse expertise of our faculty and their unwavering commitment to providing exceptional care, the talent and empathy of our highly motivated student clinicians and staff, and the high-quality, evidence-based educational resources that the world expects of Berkeley, to create an exceptional experience for every child.
Jeremy Shumaker, OD
Sports Vision and Concussion ClinicAssistant Clinical Professor The new Emeryville vision center has the potential to provide the best pediatric eye care in the Bay Area and beyond, with state of the art facilities and technologies. I am most excited about being able to house our pediatric, sports vision, TBI, binocular vision, infant/toddler, and special visual assessment clinics all under one roof which will allow better communication and collaboration with colleagues.
Harry M. Green, OD, PhD, FAAO
Director, UC Berkeley Digital HealthChief of Telehealth Services
Associate Clinical Professor The pandemic has drastically changed the need for and acceptance of Telehealth services. In addition to expanding our already extensive screening services, remote Urgent Care, and other Specialty Eyecare Services, the new Emeryville clinic will provide the space and centralization needed to provide robust Telehealth Eye Services.
W. Rowland Taylor, PhD
Professor of Optometry and Vision ScienceVision Science Graduate Program I am very excited about our new clinic in Emeryville that will not only provide state-of-the-art pediatric eye care but has the potential to expand both basic and translational vision research opportunities for our large and diverse faculty within the Vision Science Graduate Group. Our Vision Science faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students will have the chance to collaborate with clinicians in the new center, to advance our knowledge-base and treatment strategies for childhood visual disorders, and thus improve outcomes for the next generation.
Nancy McNamara, OD, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic AffairsChief, UC Berkeley Sjogren’s Clinic
Co-Chief, UC Berkeley Dry Eye Clinic The faculty and students at the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science strive to provide the utmost in evidence based optometric care. As a leader in eye and vision research, our goal is to enhance eye care while reducing the burden of ocular disease and the debilitating consequences of vision loss. The Emeryville Clinic will house a new Clinical Research Center with state-of-the-art facilities that will allow our faculty to expand their research programs and the educational mission of Berkeley Optometry.
With the opening of the new Emeryville location, our faculty and students will be well positioned to accelerate the gathering and dissemination of scientific knowledge that is necessary to develop novel diagnostic tools, discover innovative therapies, and support our local communities in the delivery of affordable, high quality eyecare. I look forward to the important discoveries and scientific advances our faculty will provide as a result of the Emeryville Clinic Research Center.