Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision.
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to excellence in patient care, vision research & education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education

The health, safety and well-being of our patients remains our top priority during the COVID pandemic. The UCSF Department of Ophthalmology is implementing a recovery plan to resume patient clinical and surgical care while making every effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. We have taken a number of steps to ensure the safety of all our patients visiting our practices (Clinic Visit Fact Sheet) and our operating rooms (Surgery Visit Fact Sheet) during these times. We value the opportunity to provide you the best in eye care. Should you have an urgent eye problem, please contact us at (415) 353-2020. The following UCSF websites are also provided for reference: Resources for Patients and Preparedness for Surgery and Other Procedures

Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision. Take a virtual tour. Get directions to our new location.

Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision.
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to excellence in patient care, vision research & education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education

Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology. We are proud to announce the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision!

⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Directions

Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision.
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to excellence in patient care, vision research & education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education
Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision
⇒ Take a virtual tour
⇒ Get directions to our new location
Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology
Dedicated to Excellence in Patient Care, Vision Research and Education

Dedicated to excellence in patient care, vision research & education.

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UCSF at the “ARVO 2023 Annual Meeting”

UCSF Ophthalmology and Proctor Foundation faculty and their research teams are attending the The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology “ARVO 2023” annual meeting in New Orleans, from Saturday, April 22nd 2023 to Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Details of their presentations and contributions for the event are listed below. All May See Foundation will […]

UCSF at the “AAO 2022 Annual Meeting”

UCSF Ophthalmology and Proctor Foundation Faculty are attending the American Academy of Ophthalmology “AAO 2022” annual meeting in Chicago, from Saturday, Sept 30th, 2022 to Monday, October 3rd, 2022. Faculty presentations and contributions for the event are listed below and available as downloadable pdf here. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation, the Department of Ophthalmology, the […]

Faculty News

Dr. Seth Blumberg, MD, joins UCSF’s Francis I. Proctor Foundation as a computational epidemiologist. He provides patient care to hospitalized patients at UCSF Medical Center as an internist specializing in infectious disease. Fellowships: New York University (infectious diseases), Proctor Foundation (forecasting trachoma control), National Institutes of Health (research and policy for infectious disease dynamics) Residency: […]

Advancing through Mentorship

Just Getting Started: $2.5 Million for Mentorships UCSF Ophthalmology’s outstanding vision and clinician scientists have a tremendous track record of developing leading-edge research programs that attract hypercompetitive grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This sustained funding enables new discoveries The UCSF-Proctor Clinician Vision Scholars K12 Program is a $2.5 million, five-year grant from […]
Life Under Pandemic Drives Eye Injuries

UCSF Ophthalmology residents are on the front line at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, where the evolving COVID pandemic and attendant social upheaval present new health challenges. During these tough times, residents are working to preserve and save sight for the city’s most vulnerable people. Children Injured by Sanitizer Resident Lawrence Chan, […]

More Than Meets the Eye

Early Detection of Cognitive Diseases Principal investigator (PI), Xin Duan, PhD, and his team, which includes both co-PI Erik Ullian, PhD, and Kongyan Wu, PhD, seek to address a vital problem in neurodegeneration: how can nerve-damaging diseases be identified earlier to prevent more extensive damage? Conceptually, Dr. Duan’s team aims to use the retina to […]

Helping Homebound Seniors

The UCSF Care at Home Program offers comprehensive primary and palliative care to homebound adults living in San Francisco. A variety of medical and allied services are offered, but a need has been identified for home-based eye care. According to the United States Census Bureau, the US older population grew rapidly for most of the […]

Fading Senses Turned Her into a Fighter

Although nearly both blind and deaf, Rebecca Alexander is an inspiration to us all. She is an author, psychotherapist, group fitness instructor, disability rights advocate, and extreme athlete. A patient of UCSF ophthalmologist, Jacque Duncan, MD, Rebecca was born with Usher syndrome type 3A, a rare genetic disorder which has caused progressive loss of both […]
An Eye for the Arts

Ellie Stokes faced a uniquely challenging time during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, but found artistic creativity to be the perfect outlet. In May 2020, Ellie was diagnosed by her doctor, neuro–ophthalmologist Nailyn Rasool, MD, with a rare form of double vision due to an artery compressing her sixth cranial nerve. One treatment for her double […]

Pediatric Pals

Recently, while young Mackenzie Fredeen was waiting for treatment, she met another toddler, Akira Pierre, going through a very similar experience. We first met Mackenzie last year, when her parents generously requested charitable gifts to That Man May See for vision research at University of California, San Francisco in lieu of first birthday presents for […]

A Dream Realized

Inside UCSF Ophthalmology’s New Home Making It Official After nearly a decade – from the initial plans to bring the Department of Ophthalmology and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation together on the Mission Bay Campus to the recent completion of the new core facility – the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision is […]

New UC President: An Old Friend of UCSF

DID YOU KNOW? Dr. Drake has been on the faculty of UCSF’s Department of Ophthalmology for over 20 years. Michael V. Drake, MD, has been selected as the 21st president of the University of California (UC) world-renowned system of ten campuses, five medical centers, three nationally-affiliated labs, more than 280,000 students and 230,000 […]
Log-On: The Doctor Will See You Now

Telemedicine: The use of technology to connect patients and healthcare providers who cannot interact in person. The concept of today’s telemedicine goes back to the 1950s. Originally used to link rural patients with medical staff in more centralized locations, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has brought the clinic into everyone’s home. But even before […]

Serving San Francisco’s Homeless

Help is Needed to Shift to Telehealth People without secure housing represent one of society’s most vulnerable populations. While the overall ocular health status and needs of the homeless are not fully understood, poor visual acuity has been correlated with reduced well-being and could pose cascading health implications. (Photo caption: Pre-COVID-19, Neeti Parikh, MD, […]

Increasing Eye Injuries during Social Justice Marches

The upcoming issue of Ophthalmology, internationally recognized journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), will include a research article from specialists in the Department of Ophthalmology and Francis I. Proctor Foundation at UCSF including Julie Schallhorn, MD; Saras Ramanathan, MD; Julius Oatts, MD; Alejandra G. de Alba Campomanes MD; and Gerami Seitzman, MD. […]

New to Amazon Prime

Eyes of Amhara Battling Blindness in East Africa Acclaimed film producer and director Neil Riha’s Eyes of Amhara, a 2020 documentary recently released on Amazon Prime Video, explores the history of a potentially blinding bacterial infection called trachoma. The film follows doctors Jeremy Keenan, MD, MPH; Michael Seider, MD; Sun Cotter, MPH; Nicole Stroller, MPH; […]
ALS, Dementia, Glaucoma: A Genetic Link

Erik M. Ullian, PhD, is a UCSF neurobiologist and principal investigator seeking to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases (the degeneration or death of nerve cells, causing debilitating conditions). Dr. Ullian first became interested in this area through studies indicating a mysterious genetic link connecting a specific group of genes to both glaucoma […]

Alumni Highlight: David F. Chang, MD

World-Renowned Cataract Surgeon UCSF ophthalmology alumnus David F. Chang, MD, has one of the most recognizable names in cataract surgery, thanks to scores of lectures and peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of some of the most prestigious international awards in his field. Dr. Chang is one of the few Americans to receive the […]

Looking Forward to 2021

New State-of-the-Art Facility The Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision in Mission Bay, incorporating the Koret Vision Clinics and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation Clinic, is now open and seeing patients. Although delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this cutting-edge facility brings the UCSF Ophthalmology community together in one space for the first time, […]

Top-Tier Rankings in 2020!

This year we ranked #2 for NIH awards to Departments of Ophthalmology nationwide and #1 for research grant awards from the NIH National Eye Institute. We also continued to be ranked in the top 10 Departments of Ophthalmology nationwide by the 2020 US News and World Report. Twenty-two vision scientists in the Department of […]
UCSF Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision

The UCSF Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision on the Mission Bay Campus, houses the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation.

Learn more about teaching and mentorship of our residency program and post-residency fellowships.

We hope you will enjoy this video presentation about what makes our residency and post-resident fellowship programs great! You can learn much more about these teaching programs and how to apply by going to our residency home page and our fellowships home page. Video: Bryn Mawr Communications

Top 10 in the Nation and Best in Northern California!

The UCSF Medical Center has been recognized in the 2020-21 Best Hospitals Honor Roll! For the fifth year in a row, UCSF’s Department of Ophthalmology has been named one of the Top 10 eye institutions in the nation AND the Best in Northern California by U.S. News & World Report! To help support the important research, medical […]

Vision care for the underserved community – Dr. Alejandra de Alba Campomanes, MD, Unsung Hero

In celebration of the initiative “2020: Year of the Eye” the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) featured stories of ophthalmologists who give above and beyond to our community. We were very proud to have our own Dr. de Alba included! Please view the video about Dr. De Alba from the AAO, or click here to […]

UCSF at the “ARVO 2023 Annual Meeting”

UCSF Ophthalmology and Proctor Foundation faculty and their research teams are attending the The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology “ARVO 2023” annual meeting in New Orleans, from Saturday, April 22nd 2023 to Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Details of their presentations and contributions for the event are listed below. All May See Foundation will […]

UCSF at the “AAO 2022 Annual Meeting”

UCSF Ophthalmology and Proctor Foundation Faculty are attending the American Academy of Ophthalmology “AAO 2022” annual meeting in Chicago, from Saturday, Sept 30th, 2022 to Monday, October 3rd, 2022. Faculty presentations and contributions for the event are listed below and available as downloadable pdf here. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation, the Department of Ophthalmology, the […]
Faculty News

Dr. Seth Blumberg, MD, joins UCSF’s Francis I. Proctor Foundation as a computational epidemiologist. He provides patient care to hospitalized patients at UCSF Medical Center as an internist specializing in infectious disease. Fellowships: New York University (infectious diseases), Proctor Foundation (forecasting trachoma control), National Institutes of Health (research and policy for infectious disease dynamics) Residency: […]

Advancing through Mentorship

Just Getting Started: $2.5 Million for Mentorships UCSF Ophthalmology’s outstanding vision and clinician scientists have a tremendous track record of developing leading-edge research programs that attract hypercompetitive grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This sustained funding enables new discoveries The UCSF-Proctor Clinician Vision Scholars K12 Program is a $2.5 million, five-year grant from […]
Life Under Pandemic Drives Eye Injuries

UCSF Ophthalmology residents are on the front line at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, where the evolving COVID pandemic and attendant social upheaval present new health challenges. During these tough times, residents are working to preserve and save sight for the city’s most vulnerable people. Children Injured by Sanitizer Resident Lawrence Chan, […]

More Than Meets the Eye

Early Detection of Cognitive Diseases Principal investigator (PI), Xin Duan, PhD, and his team, which includes both co-PI Erik Ullian, PhD, and Kongyan Wu, PhD, seek to address a vital problem in neurodegeneration: how can nerve-damaging diseases be identified earlier to prevent more extensive damage? Conceptually, Dr. Duan’s team aims to use the retina to […]
Helping Homebound Seniors

The UCSF Care at Home Program offers comprehensive primary and palliative care to homebound adults living in San Francisco. A variety of medical and allied services are offered, but a need has been identified for home-based eye care. According to the United States Census Bureau, the US older population grew rapidly for most of the […]

Fading Senses Turned Her into a Fighter

Although nearly both blind and deaf, Rebecca Alexander is an inspiration to us all. She is an author, psychotherapist, group fitness instructor, disability rights advocate, and extreme athlete. A patient of UCSF ophthalmologist, Jacque Duncan, MD, Rebecca was born with Usher syndrome type 3A, a rare genetic disorder which has caused progressive loss of both […]
An Eye for the Arts

Ellie Stokes faced a uniquely challenging time during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, but found artistic creativity to be the perfect outlet. In May 2020, Ellie was diagnosed by her doctor, neuro–ophthalmologist Nailyn Rasool, MD, with a rare form of double vision due to an artery compressing her sixth cranial nerve. One treatment for her double […]

Pediatric Pals

Recently, while young Mackenzie Fredeen was waiting for treatment, she met another toddler, Akira Pierre, going through a very similar experience. We first met Mackenzie last year, when her parents generously requested charitable gifts to That Man May See for vision research at University of California, San Francisco in lieu of first birthday presents for […]
A Dream Realized

Inside UCSF Ophthalmology’s New Home Making It Official After nearly a decade – from the initial plans to bring the Department of Ophthalmology and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation together on the Mission Bay Campus to the recent completion of the new core facility – the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision is […]

New UC President: An Old Friend of UCSF

DID YOU KNOW? Dr. Drake has been on the faculty of UCSF’s Department of Ophthalmology for over 20 years. Michael V. Drake, MD, has been selected as the 21st president of the University of California (UC) world-renowned system of ten campuses, five medical centers, three nationally-affiliated labs, more than 280,000 students and 230,000 […]

Announcing the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision. Take a virtual tour. Get directions to our new location.

Welcome to UCSF Ophthalmology. We are proud to announce the Opening of the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision!

Dedicated to excellence in patient care, vision research & education.

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