{"id":8969,"date":"2024-02-06T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/?page_id=8969"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:51:09","slug":"about-our-graduates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/education-programs\/ophthalmology-residency-program-2-2\/about-our-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/07\/PGY4s-Class-of-2025.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNC Ophthalmology is proud to train top-tier learners in excellence, competence and readiness for independent, comprehensive practice upon graduation. In the past 5 years, <strong>74%<\/strong> of graduating UNC Ophthalmology residents have pursued fellowship training:<\/p>\n<h2>Class of 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Luke Ford &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Alli Harmel &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Le &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Obi Wogu &#8211; Glaucoma Fellowship &#8211; Duke Eye Center (Durham, NC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Khalid Aldaas &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Li &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Machiele &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Vikram Ponnusamy &#8211; Retinal Fellowship (NJRetina, Multiple NJ locations)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hannah Miller, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Xavier Mortensen, MD &#8211; Cornea and Anterior Segment fellowship (Price Vision Group)<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Prince, MD &#8211; Vitreoretinal Surgery fellowship (Emory University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2022<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Elliott Browning, MD &#8211; Glaucoma fellowship (Florida Eye Specialists)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Duddleston, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Basil Mathews, MD &#8211; Glaucoma fellowship (Duke University Medical Center)<\/li>\n<li>Roma Pegany, MD &#8211; Cornea &amp; External Disease fellowship (Casey Eye Institute)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2021<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Karishma Habbu, MD &#8211; Uveitis fellowship (Johns Hopkins University)<\/li>\n<li>Brent Kramer, MD &#8211; Cornea &amp; External Disease fellowship (Duke University Medical Center)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Olson, MD &#8211; Vitreoretinal Surgery fellowship (Baylor College of Medicine)<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Strelow, MD &#8211; Vitreoretinal Surgery fellowship (Midwest Retina)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2020<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Oleg Alekseev, MD &#8211; Medical Retina and Retinal Genetics fellowship (Duke University Medical Center)<\/li>\n<li>Sailu Bondalapati, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>John Deans, MD &#8211; Vitreoretinal Surgery fellowship (UNC-Chapel Hill)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan O\u2019Meilia, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Hwang, MD &#8211; ASOPRS Oculoplastics fellowship (Mayo Clinic)<\/li>\n<li>Lee Moore, MD &#8211; Cornea &amp; External Disease fellowship (Dean McGee Eye Institute)<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Rushing, MD &#8211; Medical Retina fellowship (University of Michigan)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Taggart, MD \u2013 Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2018<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Go, MD &#8211; Pediatric Ophthalmology &amp; Strabismus fellowship (Duke University Medical Center)<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Huynh, MD &#8211; Cornea &amp; External Disease fellowship (University of California &#8211; Irvine)<\/li>\n<li>Evan Levy, MD &#8211; Oculoplastics fellowship (University of TX &#8211; Southwestern)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Olayanju, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Class of 2017<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sylvia Groth, MD &#8211; Glaucoma fellowship (Stanford University).<\/li>\n<li>Kay Khine, MD &#8211; Glaucoma fellowship (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute)<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Jordan, MD &#8211; Comprehensive Ophthalmology (Private Practice)<\/li>\n<li>Tara McGehee, MD &#8211; Cornea &amp; External Disease fellowship (University of Iowa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Ophthalmology is proud to train top-tier learners in excellence, competence and readiness for independent, comprehensive practice upon graduation. 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