Baruch D. Kuppermann

Dr. Baruch D. Kuppermann is the Roger F. Steinert Professor, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. After earning his PhD in neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology and his medical degree at the University of Miami, Dr. Kuppermann completed his internship at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center and his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Southern California Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. He completed fellowships in retina and vitreous at St. Joseph Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland and at the University of California, San Diego. He is also extensively involved in clinical research, having served as Principal Investigator in many trials evaluating new drugs and technologies for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusion.