Kevin Tan, MD, MS

Residency
UC San Diego, Shiley Eye Institute
La Jolla, CA

Internship
Scripps Mercy Hospital
San Diego, CA

Medical School
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Masters in Clinical Research
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH

Undergraduate
Cornell University
Summa cum laude
Ithaca, NY

Cataract & Refractive Surgeon

Dr. Tan is a board-certified eye physician and surgeon who specializes in advanced technology cataract and refractive surgery and has experience with femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, Wavefront LASIK, PRK, and Multifocal, Toric, and Extended depth-of-focus intraocular lens implants. He achieves precise cataract surgery refractive outcomes using ORA® wavefront intraoperative aberrometry technology. He also specializes in minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery, including expertise with iStent® and Hydrus® micro-stent implants, canaloplasty, and Kahook Dual Blade goniotomy.

Dr. Tan completed his internship at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego and received the Intern Award for outstanding patient care. He then completed his ophthalmology residency at the esteemed Shiley Eye Institute at the University of California, San Diego in 2013. He received refractive surgery training at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, where he performed PRK and LASIK on Navy pilots and corpsmen.

Dr. Tan graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in New York. He received his Medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, graduating in its inaugural class in 2009. He spent a year doing research at the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, where his work led to the discovery of faulty bone marrow-derived vasculogenic stem cells in the pathogenesis of retinal neovascularization in diabetic patients. Dr. Tan has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on his translational stem cell research in diabetic retinopathy.

Dr. Tan serves on the clinical faculty at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and serves as a voluntary clinical professor for the residency program's Lions Eye Clinic. He is also a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Since starting his practice in San Francisco in 2014, he has performed hundreds of eye surgeries for fellow physicians, professors, artists, and professional musicians in the Bay Area.

Dr. Tan speaks Spanish, French, and Chinese (Taiwanese) fluently. He enjoys classical piano, cooking, traveling, and wildlife photography. He has a passion for GLBT health and donates his time and money to the Prism Foundation in San Francisco. He and his husband (with their two Siamese cats) reside in the Bernal Heights neighborhood in San Francisco.