New Faculty (continued)

Lillian To, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Dr. To received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. She then went to Baylor College of Medicine for her internship. Dr. To returned to the University of Pittsburgh to complete her residency training (2018-2021). She did her fellowship training in glaucoma at the UT Houston Cizik Eye Clinic. She joined the department in November of 2022.

Shaohua

Pi, PhD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Shaohua Pi joined the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in 2022. Prior to this, he obtained his BS and PhD degrees from Fudan University (Shanghai, China), in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He received postdoc training in the field of Optical Coherence Tomography and Ophthalmic Imaging from the COOLLAB at Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University. He is a member of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of grant awards from Knight Templar Eye Foundation and Bright Focus Foundation.

Xing Chen, PhD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Dr. Chen received her PhD in Visual Neuroscience at Newcastle University followed by a post-doctoral position and then a senior researcher in the lab of Pieter Roelfsema at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. The Chen lab develops high-channel-count, chronically implantable devices to record from and stimulate the brain. They harness cuttingedge developments in electrode fabrication and microelectronics to improve probe durability and biocompatibility, generating fundamental neuroscientific knowledge and translating results from the lab to the clinic.

Airaj Fasiuddin, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Dr. Fasiuddin received her MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. She did her internship in Internal Medicine at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia; followed by her residency at St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Fasiuddin completed her fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She then went to the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences where she was Residency Program Director and an Assistant Clinical Professor. Prior to joining the department of Ophthalmology, she was the Division Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando and the Vice Chair of Education in Ophthalmology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.

ARVO Alumni and Friends Reception

April 23, 2023 • New Orleans, LA

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Kabacoff Room

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Please RSVP by April 7, 2023 by emailing or calling Lauren Wally at wallyl@upmc.edu or 412.864.3283

Vision Research Day

June 2, 2023

Resident & Fellow Graduation

June 16, 2023

AAO Alumni and Friends Reception

November 5, 2023 • San Francisco, CA