Meet The Team

Meet the Leader

Dr. Nimesh a. Patel

Dr. Nemo Patel specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of vitreoretinal diseases. His clinical interests and expertise involve working with both adult and pediatric patients, with a goal of providing top quality, individualized care for a variety of conditions including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, epiretinal membrane, macular hole, ocular trauma, and retinopathy of prematurity. He is an active member of the Retina Service at Mass Eye and Ear, as well as at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he is the Director of Pediatric Retina.

During his medical training, Dr. Patel excelled academically and was inducted into the AOA honor society. After completing his ophthalmology residency at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, he served as Chief Resident and Director of the Trauma Service. He subsequently completed vitreoretinal fellowship training there as well.

Director of Pediatric Retina, Mass. Eye and Ear and Mass. General Hospital

Director of Pediatric Retina Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

The dedicated, curious, and generous crew.

Managing Director and Research Coordinator

Celine Chaaya MD

Research Fellow @ Mass Eye and Ear

Director - International Students; Website Manager and Developer

Yashar Adibnia MD

Research Fellow @ Mass Eye and Ear

Director - HMS Students

Naira Ikram MD

PGY-1 Mass Eye and Ear

International Physician

Macarena Fuentes Fernandez Cueto MD

Research Fellow @ Boston Children's Hospital

Resident

Sandra Alhoyek MD

PGY-3 Mass Eye and Ear

Resident

Ayush Parikh MD

PGY-4 Mass Eye and Ear

Resident

Hannah Hwang MD

PGY-3 Mass Eye and Ear

Resident

Jia Jia Zhang MD

PGY-2 Mass Eye and Ear

Resident

Sierra Ha MD

PGY-2 Mass Eye and Ear

HMS Student

Muhammad Abidi

MD/MBA Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Eyad Ali

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Andrew Ham

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Nasir Stovall

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Alisia Pan

MD/PhD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Aroub Yousuf

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Audrey Gunawan

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

HMS Student

Michelle Zhang

MD Student @ Harvard Medical School

Visiting Student

Archit Bajaj

MD Student @ Chicago Medical School

Visiting Student

Paras Shah

MD Student @ University of Missouri

Visiting Student

Deniz Oncel

MD Student @ Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Joseph Fahey

MD Student @ Chicago Medical School

Visiting Student

Stephanie Zhang

MD Student @ University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix

Visiting Student

Nina Ahmad

MD Student @ Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Visiting Student

Prashit Parikh

MD Student @ Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Pooja Patel

MD Student @ Tufts University School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Amirmohammad Shafiee

MD Student @ Burnett School of Medicine at TCU

Visiting Student

Sriman Maddieneni

MD Student @ Tufts University School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Karen Liao

MD Student @ Georgetown University School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Zoe Hutchins

MD Student @ UConn School of Medicine

Visiting Student

Henry Moshfeghi

MS Student @ Stanford University

Visiting Student

Jonathan Liu

MD Student @ Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Visiting Student

Alina Ikram

Undergraduate Student @ Brown University

International Physician

Miguel Castro MD

MMSCI Student @ Harvard Medical School

International Physician

Xiaoxiao Feng

Research Fellow @ Boston Children's Hospital

International Physician

Davina Malek MD

Research Fellow @ Bascom Palmer

Alumni

Sameen Meshkin MD

Vitreoretinal Fellow @ Duke University

Alumni

Srujay Pandiri MD

PGY-1 UNC Chapel Hill

Alumni

Francisco Altamirano MD

PGY-1 Utah Moran

Alumni

Samantha Hoffman MD, PhD

PGY-1 UCSF

Alumni

Owais Fazal MD

PGY-1 Boston University

Alumni

Angelica Piccini

PGY-1 @ SUNY Downstate

Alumni

Romy Bejjani MD

Research Fellow @ Wills Eye Hospital

Alumni

Karen Matar MD

PGY-1 West Virginia University

Alumni

Melissa Yuan MD

Vitreoretinal Fellow @ Stanford University

The Pediatric Retina Lab

Meet the Leader

Meet the Team