Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship
at Penn		  



The Penn Neuro-Ophthalmology clinical fellowship is supervised by Drs. Grant Liu, Kenneth Shindler, Madhura Tamhankar, Robert Avery, Ahmara Ross, Ali Hamedani, and Sashank Prasad, Adam Kruszewski, members of the Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. Our program participates in the AUPO Match in the December prior to the fellowship year. Any questions regarding the fellowship program should be directed to the fellowship director, Dr. Kenneth Shindler: <kenneth.shindler@pennmedicine.upenn.edu>.


Former/Current Fellows

          

Former and current Penn neuro-ophthalmology fellows and faculty in March 2025 at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting in Tucson, AZ.  From left to right: Drs. Balcer, Kruszewski, Carreras, Hamedani, Levin, Durand, Solomon, McClelland, Bhagat, Paton, Avery, Ko, Osborne, Pelak, Glisson, Moss, Beres, Galetta, Liu, Prasad, Shindler, Walsh, Doroslovacki, Gold, Jivraj, and Sheldon.
 Year  Name  Residency  Current Position
 1994-95  Katrinka Heher, MD  Ophthalmology/Wilmer  Tufts Univ./oculoplastics
 1995-96  Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE  Neurology/Penn  New York University
 1996-97  None
    
 1997-98  Jeff Bennett, MD, PhD  Neurology/U. Colorado  Univ. Colorado
 1998-99  Victoria Pelak, MD  Neurology/Penn  Univ. Colorado
 1999-2000  Tammy Movsas, MD  Ophth./Wash., D.C.  Midland, MI
 2000-01  Robert Shin, MD  Neurology/Penn  Univ. Virginia
 2001-02  Dina Jacobs, MD  Neurology/Penn  U. Penn Neurology
 2002-03  Madura Tamhankar, MD  Ophthalmology  U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 2003-04  Ken Shindler, MD, PhD  Ophthalmology/Penn  U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 2004-05  Gabrielle Bonhomme, MD  Ophthalmology/Penn  Univ. Pittsburgh
 2005-06  Benjamin Osborne, MD  Neurology/Georgetown  Georgetown Univ. Hospital
 2006-07
  Christopher Glisson, DO
  Neurology/Mich. State U.
  St. Francis, OK
 2007-08  
 Melissa Wang Ko, MD
 Jennifer Hall, MD

  
 Neurology/Penn
 Ophthalmology/Penn

  
 Univ. Indiana
 
 2008-09  Sashank Prasad, MD
  Neurology/Penn  U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 2009-10  
 Robert Avery, DO
 Heather Moss, MD, PhD
 Stacy Pineles, MD

  
 Neurology/CHOP
 Neurology/Penn
 Ophthalmology/UCLA

  
 CHOP/U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 Stanford University
 Jules Stein/UCLA
 2010-11  Jennifer Graves, MD, PhD
  Neurology/Penn  UCSD
 2011-12  
 Collin McClelland, MD
 Ryan Walsh, MD

  
 Ophthalmology/Wash. U.
 Neurology/Mayo-Jacks.

  
 Univ. Minnesota
 Med. Coll. Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
 2012-13  
 Dan Gold, DO
 Marc Levin, MD

  
 Neurology/Maryland
 Ophthalmology/Penn

  
 Johns Hopkins
 UCSF
 2013-14  
 Robert Mallery, MD
 Claire Sheldon, MD, PhD

  
 Neurology/Harvard
 Ophth./Vancouver

  
 Brigham & Women's Hospital
 U. British Columbia (Vancouver)
 2014-15  
 Shannon Beres, MD
 Pavle Doroslovacki, MD

  
 Ped. Neuro./UCSF
 Ophthalmology/Hopkins

  
 Stanford University
 Univ. Pittsburgh
 2015-16  
 Faisal Althekair, MD
 Ahmara Ross, MD, PhD

  
 Neurology/McGill
 Ophth./Pittsburgh

  
 King Saudi University (S. Arabia)
 U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 2016-17  
 Imran Jivraj, MD
 Anita Kohli, MD

  
 Ophth./U. Alberta
 Ophth./Penn

  
 Eye Institute of Alberta (Edmonton)
 Yale University
 2017-18  
 Ali Hamedani, MD, MHS
 Sara Reggie, MD

  
 Neurology/Penn
 Ophth./Saint Louis

  
 U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 OPCS (St. Louis)

 2018-19  
 Sophie Lin, MD
 
  
 Ophth./Taipei Veterans

  
 Einstein Med. Ctr. (Phila.)
 2019-20  
 Venkatesh Brahma, MD
 Neena Cherayil, MD

  
 Ophth./Yale
 Neurology/Penn

  
 Hudson Eye Phys. and Surgeons
 Northwestern Univ.
 2020-21  
 Harry Aung, MD, PhD
 Gillian Paton, MD

  
 Neurology/Penn
 Ped. Neuro./UBC
 Wong Eye Inst./U. Texas at Austin
 Casey Eye Inst./OHSU (Portland)
 2021-22  
 Adam Kruszewski, MD
 Alexander Solomon, MD

  
 Neurology/Penn
 Ophth./U. Wash.

   
 U. Penn Neuro-ophth.
 Pacific Neuroscience Institute
 2022-23  
 None

  
 

   
 
 2023-24  
 Dhristie Bhagat, MD
 Muhammad Fraz, MD

  
 Ped. Neuro./NYU
 Neurology/Henry Ford

  
 Cornell Univ.
 Christiana, DE

 2024-25  
 Amy Durand, MD
 Leigh Rettenmaier, MD

  
 Neurology/UT Houston
 Neurology/Harvard

   
 Wong Eye Inst./U. Texas at Austin
 Univ. Iowa
 2025-26  
 Christopher Anthony, DO
 Alexa Carreras, MD

  
 Ophth./San Antonio U.S.
 Neurology/Barrow NI

   
 
 
 2026-27  
 Jennifer Drechsler, MD
 Faith Lee, MD

  
 Ophth./NY Eye Ear Inf.
 Ped. Neuro./Jefferson

   
 
 

          

Former and current Penn neuro-ophthalmology fellows and faculty in April 2017 at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting in Wash., DC.  From left to right: Drs. Liu, Shin, Glisson, Volpe, Bennett, Reggie, Althekair, Levin, Kohli, Jivraj, Beres, Mallery, Moss, Avery, Balcer, Tamhankar, Ko, Sheldon, Walsh, Shindler, Graves, McClelland, Gold, Galetta, Prasad, Doroslovacki, and Hamedani.


          

Former and current Penn neuro-ophthalmology fellows and faculty in February 2015 at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting in San Diego.  From left to right: Drs. Volpe, Ko, Pineles, Beres, Liu, Shindler, Balcer, Bonhomme, Schatz, Gold, Walsh, Galetta, McClelland, Mallery, Glisson, Ross, Osborne, Jivraj, Moss, Althekair, Sheldon, Bennett, and Pelak.

          

Former and current Penn neuro-ophthalmology fellows and faculty in March 2014 at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting in Puerto Rico.  Front row: Drs. Shindler, Bennett, Liu, Volpe, Galetta, Balcer, Ko, Pelak, Graves, Pineles and Tamhankar. Back row: Drs. Avery, McClelland, Mallery, Sheldon, Prasad, Glisson, Moss, Levin, and Bonhomme.