Family eye care by a family...

Irene Gendelman, O.D. and Smit Patel, O.D.

Dr. Gendelman and Dr. Patel graduated with a Doctorate of Optometry from the distinguished Southern California College of Optometry. Both doctors earned a bachelors degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Gendelman's past clinical experience includes practicing at the Eyecare Associates of Utah, Sharp Reese Stealy Healthcare System, and Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Phoenix. She also played a role as an Investigator on vision related research funded by the National Institute of Health in Boston. She holds awards and scholarships for her work in ocular disease and low vision, an area of optometry that serves the visually impaired.

Dr. Patel's past clinical experience includes residency training in Primary Eye Care and Low Vision through the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System as well as clinical experience at the Center for the Partially Sighted in Santa Monica, Veterans Affairs Clinic in Bakersfield, and Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Arizona.

Dr. Gendelman and Dr. Patel are firm believers in community involvement and volunteering. Dr. Gendelman has participated in mission trips to El Salvador and along with Dr. Patel they have provided eye care to underserved populations deep into the Baja peninsula. Here in San Diego they have volunteered providing vision screenings at the Monarch School. They currently work with the Lions Club by offering eye examinations and glasses to children and adults who can not otherwise afford it.

Introducing our associate… Michelle Pham, O.D.

Dr. Pham is a San Diego native who received her Doctor of Optometry degree from Marshall B. Ketchum University. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Pham practices full scope optometry and her past clinical experience includes externships at Hu Hu Kam Memorial Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, the Center for the Partially Sighted in Culver City, CA and VA Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, NV. She provides adult and pediatric comprehensive vision exams, with an interest in contact lenses and dry eyes.  Dr. Pham believes in the importance of providing eye care to underserved populations and has gone on mission trips to El Salvador and Mexico as well as volunteered to provide eye exams at the Special Olympics Summer Games in Los Angeles. In her spare time, Dr. Pham enjoys traveling, walks with her dog and trying out new restaurants in San Diego!

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