Jean and Kent Sheng Glaucoma Fellowship
Program Overview
The Jean and Kent Sheng Glaucoma Fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center is a one-year program designed to provide comprehensive subspecialty training in glaucoma diagnosis, management, and surgery. Fellows gain extensive experience in the medical and surgical management of glaucoma, including trabeculectomy, tube shunts, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS), and laser procedures. Training is based at the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute and a satellite clinic in the Midtown East, where fellows work closely with Columbia’s glaucoma faculty in a high-volume tertiary referral setting. One fellow is selected annually through SF Match.
Curriculum Highlights
Columbia Ophthalmology’s Glaucoma Fellowship builds on a long and distinguished tradition of specialist training, with generations of fellows shaping glaucoma care nationally and internationally. Columbia’s Glaucoma Division faculty, recognized for their expertise in both traditional and cutting-edge approaches to glaucoma care, provide close surgical mentorship and foster progressive independence in patient management.
The program is under the preceptorship of Drs. George "Jack" Cioffi, Jeffrey M. Liebmann, Noga Harizman, Aakriti Garg Shukla, Ives Valenzuela, and C. Gustavo De Moraes. The fellowship emphasizes comprehensive exposure to glaucoma care, from routine cases to the most complex presentations. Fellows participate in:
- Advanced diagnostics (posterior segment and anterior segment optical coherence tomography, stereoscopic disc photography, wide-field imaging, perimetry, gonioscopy)
- Medical management of glaucoma across all stages of disease
- Surgical management, including trabeculectomy, tube shunts, MIGS, and laser procedures
- Co-management of patients with cataract and glaucoma requiring combined surgery