Doheny Eye Institute

Dr. Chong earned a M.D. from Harvard University. He completed his residency at Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, and his retina-vitreous fellowship at the Duke University Eye Center. He returned to the Doheny Eye Institute as chief resident before joining the faculty. His research interests include AIDS retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal pigment epithelial selective lasers and dye enhanced laser treatment of ocular tumors. Dr. Chong is Chief of the Retina Service at the Doheny Eye Institute and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Green earned an M.D. and completed his residency at Wayne State University. He completed a fellowship in ophthalmic diagnostic ultrasound at the University of Iowa. Dr. Green has been Medical Director for the Doheny Eye Institute's Ultrasound Laboratory for the past ten years. He is the author of numerous papers and a major textbook on this subject. Dr. Green is now one of the most prominent ocular ultrasound experts in the world, and his recent comprehensive text is a classic in the field. He has participated in studies involving ocular trauma, intraocular tumors, orbital tumors and biometry for intraocular lens calculations. Dr. Green is a Professor at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

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Dr. David Huang joined the USC Doheny Eye Institute in 2004 as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, the Medical Director of the Refractive Surgery Center and a member of the Cornea Service. Dr. Huang received the MD degree from Harvard University and a PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received ophthalmology residency training at USC and fellowship training in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the USC faculty, Dr. Huang was on the staff of the Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Huang is known for his innovations in applying laser and optical technology to eye diseases. He is a co-inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging technology that has been applied to the measurement of eye structures with unprecedented precision. He continues research in applying OCT to corneal and cataract surgery, glaucoma and retinal diseases.

Richard K. Apt, M.D. is an expert refractive surgeon who has been providing up to date, comprehensive eye care to the communities of Southern California since 1974. He is Board Certified in Ophthalmology and a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, the California Association of Ophthalmology, and the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgical Society. Raised and educated in greater Los Angeles, Dr. Apt graduated from Loyola University and completed medical school at UC Irvine. After finishing ophthalmology training at the Oschner Foundation in New Orleans, he was awarded two fellowships in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Albany Medical Center in New York, and the University of Toronto where he studied the delicate subspecialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids. Dr Apt keeps up with the newest and latest technologies available, specializing in cataract and intraocular lens implantation, refractive (LASIK) surgery, as well as plastic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids. He is an Assistant Professor at the Jules Stein Eye Institute (UCLA) and the Doheny Eye Institute (USC), where he shares his knowledge with doctors in training. He has lectured nationally and internationally on reconstruction and refractive surgery. His offices are located in Century City, California. Dr. Apt has volunteered his surgical expertise throughout Asia, Mexico, Africa and the Republic of Georgia (in the former Soviet Union), restoring sight to the disadvantaged there. When he's not helping people see the world better, he enjoys skiing, long-distance bicycle riding and studying oriental rugs with his wife and sons.

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