Ho Sun Choi MD
Ho Sun Choi MD
Ho Sun Choi was born in South Korea, and grew up, moving between the Seoul, the Bay Area, and Chicago every 2 to 4 years. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley for undergrad, University of Illinois, Chicago for medical school, and Rush University for residency. He is currently practicing general ophthalmology in San Jose, CA. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies and playing poker.
Robert Fante MD
Robert Fante MD – Board Member
Dr. Robert G. Fante is a warm and caring person who enjoys getting to know his patients. He is also an extraordinarily knowledgeable and accomplished physician, and is the editor-in-chief of the most comprehensive textbook ever created for the specialty of oculofacial plastic surgery. He loves working with people to help solve their problems and is undaunted by complex diseases. He combines his expertise in surgery with an artistic sensibility and genuine compassion. Extensively trained in both facial surgery and oculoplastic (eye area) surgery, he’s a specialist in laser eyelid surgery, orbital diseases, and facial cosmetic surgery.
Dr. Fante is an ardent believer in teamwork and particularly recognizes the truth in Nelson Mandela’s philosophy of Ubuntu, which means, “I am because we are”. He works hard to be an effective team member with his patients, other physicians, surgery personnel, and his staff. You will feel a difference at his office, where his team strives to treat everyone as if they were members of the family.
Dr. Fante is a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery and introduced cosmetic procedures such as the endoscopic cheek lift to Colorado. He’s also the author of medical texts and research papers on facial reconstruction after skin cancer surgery, on endoscopic tear drainage surgery, on cosmetic eyelid surgery, and on thyroid eye disease (Graves Disease), among many others.
Dr. Fante is board certified by both the American Board of Ophthalmology and the American Board of Facial Cosmetic Surgery, and is also a member of many state, national and international medical societies. He is a clinical associate professor in the University of Colorado Medical School. He has received national achievement awards and has been recognized as one of the nation’s “Best Doctors” by several national organizations including Who’s Who, and by local organizations that have named him the “Best Facial Cosmetic Surgeon” in the Denver metro area.
Dr. Fante’s affiliations also include:
- Fellow and Secretary of Education for the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellow of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Editorial reviewer for many scholarly journals
- Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company committee member
- Board member of the Colorado Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, the Harvard Park Surgery Center, and Boys Hope Girls Hope.
Dr. Fante graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Arizona. He completed his training in oculofacial plastic surgery at the University of Michigan, one of the premier institutions in the country. After serving for 4 years as a physician in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps, he moved to Denver, his wife’s hometown, in 1998. He is married and has three sons. He enjoys skiing, bicycling, fly-fishing, and reading fiction and non-fiction.
For over two decades, Dr. Fante has been teaching the art and science of cosmetic and reconstructive oculofacial plastic surgery to doctors from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. Dr. Fante also regularly serves on mission trips to bring free reconstructive surgery to impoverished areas in Latin America, most frequently to Peru, and also to Honduras and Colombia. In Denver, he volunteers as a specialty reconstructive surgeon at Denver Health Medical Center. Our practice also hosts physicians training in oculoplastic and facial surgery at the University of Colorado and elsewhere who come study with Dr. Fante. Our practice is a proud sponsor of Boys Hope Girls Hope of Colorado, Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust, National Jewish Medical Research Center, The Gathering Place, LIM359, and many others.
Laura Fine MD
Laura Fine MD
Dr. Laura C. Fine is a caring and committed person who enjoys helping her patients and serving the field of ophthalmology. She specializes in cataract surgery and the medical, surgical and laser treatment of glaucoma. Her principal goals are to deliver the highest quality care and guidance to patients and their referring doctors while remaining active in teaching, research, and patient advocacy.
Dr. Fine attended Wesleyan University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, she received the Oliver Memorial Prize for Excellence in Ophthalmology. As a resident at the University of California San Francisco, she was awarded the Taylor Asbury Award for Clinical Research. Dr. Fine was honored with the prestigious Heed Foundation Award and completed her glaucoma fellowship training through Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
In 2003, Dr. Fine joined Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, where she currently serves as President and Medical Director. She also served as Medical Director of the Boston Eye Surgery and Laser Center. She has lectured regularly to primary care physicians through Harvard Medical School’s Primary Care Internal Medicine Course. Dr. Fine is an instructor at both Harvard Medical School and Tufts Medical School, where she helps train medical students, residents, and fellows. She is the medical editor for The Aging Eye Newsletter, an informative patient education brochure produced by Harvard Health Publications.
Dr. Fine is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. She has served on several AAO committees including the Digital Media, Self-Assessment and Eye Care America Committees. She is currently chair of the Eye Care America Seniors Committee and received an AAO Achievement Award in 2014. Dr. Fine is Past President of the New England Ophthalmological Society and the Chandler-Grant Glaucoma Society. She is a co-founder of the Women Ophthalmologists of New England Society and is a physician ambassador to the Glaucoma Research Foundation.
Dr. Fine is committed to providing her patients with the highest quality, compassionate eye care. She has special interest in advanced technologies for early glaucoma detection and surgical innovations for cataracts and glaucoma. Dr. Fine has a deep appreciation for teamwork and works hard to be an effective team member with patients, staff and colleagues. When she is not working, she enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, and spending time with her husband, two grown children, their service dog Winston, and extended family and friends.
Robert Gold MD
Robert Gold MD – Secretary
Robert S. Gold, M.D. has been in private practice as the senior pediatric ophthalmologist at Eye Physicians of Central Florida in Maitland and Orlando, Florida for since July of 1987. Dr. Gold attended both undergraduate and medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans, followed by his internship at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital and Clinic and then ophthalmology residency at Louisiana State University, also in New Orleans. He did a pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus fellowship at the James Hall Eye Foundation and Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia before coming to Orlando in 1987. Dr. Gold is on the staff of both the Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando. He is past president of the American Eye Study Club and is the current pediatrics and strabismus editor of Ocular Surgery News. Since 2016, Dr. Gold has been on the board of directors of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and is the current Secretary/Treasurer. His tenure on the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Corporation began in 2011 and is currently a member of the board of directors on the Risk Management and Underwriting Committees and serves as the chairman of OMIC’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Task Force.
Andrew Iwach MD
Andrew Iwach MD
Andrew G. Iwach, MD is an associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty instructor at the California Pacific Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Iwach is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and was its Secretary of Communications. He has served on the Academy’s Committee on Medical Information Technology, Patient Education Committee, and Media Advisory Task Force, as well as having served as the Chief Medical editor of the Academy’s member publication Academy Express and currently serving as a spokesperson. Dr. Iwach is an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology, the Executive Director for the Glaucoma Research and Education Group, Executive Director of the Glaucoma Center of San Francisco, Co-Founder of the Eye Surgery Center of San Francisco, and Co-Founder of Glaucoma 360 New Horizons Forum. Dr. Iwach specializes in glaucoma treatment.
In 1984, Dr. Iwach received his medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed an internship at San Diego’s Mercy Hospital in 1985 and his ophthalmology residency at Stanford University Medical Center in 1988. After completing his glaucoma fellowship with Dr. Robert N. Shaffer at UCSF in 1989, he joined the Shaffer Medical Group as a glaucoma specialist. He also is past Research Director, Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice President and the current Chair of the board for the Glaucoma Research Foundation in San Francisco.
Dr. Iwach is a scientific reviewer for several medical journals, including Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers, and the Journal of Glaucoma.
He has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed clinical and scientific journals and has lectured extensively on glaucoma and other topics in ophthalmology in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Iwach serves on various boards of ophthalmic organizations and publications. He is a past recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
