Cataract Surgery
Glaucoma
Retina
Bio
Christine Weng, OD, MBA, studied biology at The College of New Jersey before completing the optometry doctorate in New York City. Externships took in a veterans health system in Arizona and an optometry and ophthalmology practice near Baltimore, and a residency followed at the practice where the career has been spent since. An Executive MBA came later, earned while already running a clinical team.
The clinical work centers on the visits that bracket surgery. Patients are examined before a cataract, glaucoma, or retinal procedure to establish that the eye is ready, then seen afterward through the healing period, when pressure, inflammation, and the retina all need watching on a schedule. Directing the clinical operation means that same judgment gets applied to how the department runs, from who is hired to how a training program is built. A business education added the vocabulary for the second half of that.
Mandarin and Shanghainese are spoken alongside English, which widens who can be seen without an interpreter. In Dr. Weng's own words, "Running a clinic well and seeing patients well are the same problem from two angles, because the schedule and the staffing decide how much attention each person actually gets. I went back for a business degree to fix the parts of that I could not fix from the exam chair." Patients can visit Dr. Weng at Omni Eye Services in New York.