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Dr. Julia Song MD is a board-certified ophthalmologist with fellowship training in glaucoma. In addition to general ophthalmology (cataract surgery, diabetic exams and treatment), she specializes in glaucoma management and surgeries in both adults and children.

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Dr. Julia Song

Ophthalmologist

Dr. Song received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a major in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Music. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Song completed her postgraduate training in ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX. She then completed a two year glaucoma fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC. during which she conducted an extensive amount of research on new treatments for glaucoma. She is the recipient of the Pfizer Ophthalmics Third Annual Glaucoma Fellowship as well as the Fight for Sight ARVO/Alcon Laboratories Grant. She was in private practice in San Diego, CA. She then became Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at Loma Linda University where she was also Director of the Glaucoma Service. She is Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the USC/Keck School of Medicine.

She is a fellow of the American Board of Ophthalmology and a member of the American Glaucoma Society. She is also an active member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Dr. Song has lectured at universities and teaches glaucoma courses at major ophthalmology care and has traveled overseas to Thailand and Mongolia with various organizations.

In her spare time, she was a clarinetist in the Los Angeles Doctors' Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Monica Civic Light Opera Orchestra. She has volunteered with Reading to Kids. She has participated in Love L.A. at SkidRow in downtown Los Angeles and also are volunteers with EyeCareAmerica and the Illumination Foundation to provide free medical and surgical ophthalmologic services. She has volunteered with the Flying Samaritans in Tecate, Mexico. She has also volunteered her services and supplies in Thailand and Mongolia. She also enjoys singing, playing the piano and swimming.

Dr. Song is fluent in Spanish.

Articles
Leng J, Song J, Song A. The case that began with a dinner invite.
Leng J, Song A, Song J. Agreement of Perkins Hand-held Applanation Tonometry with Goldmann Slit-lamp Applanation Tonometry
Wilson H, Leng J, Song A, Song J. Simultaneous Implant of 2 Glaucoma Drainage Devices.
Leng J, Song A, Song J. Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty Performed by Resident Physicians.
Song J. Glaucoma: The silent killer of sight.
Song J, Deng P-F, Stinnett SS, Epstein EL, Rao PV. Effects of cholesterol lowering statin drugs on aqueous humor outflow pathways. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences 46(7): 2424-32, 2005.
Song J, Lee PP, Epstein DL, Stinnett SS, Herndon LW, Asrani SG, Allingham RR, Challa P. High failure rate associated with 180 degrees selective laser trabeculoplasty. Journal of Glaucoma 14(5): 400-8, 2005.
Song J, Lee PP, Weiner R, Challa P. The Effect of Surgery on Intraocular Pressure Fluctuations with Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patients with Severe Glaucoma.
Song J, Allingham RR. Treating phacolytic glaucoma. EyeNet:
Blackmon S, Song J, Allingham RR. Postoperative trabeculectomy management.
Song J, Stinnett SS, Kooner KJ. Influence of Age, Race, Sex, and Socioeconomic Status on False-Negative Rates of Visual Fields in Glaucoma.
Song J. Systemic management of posterior uveitis. (presented at Korean American Medical Association December 28, 2001).
Song J, Chung GW, Manligas GS, Ritter R, Zhang Y, Schimmenti LA, Edwards AO. Optic nerve colobomas and renal hypoplasia: Report of novel PAX2 gene mutation and literature review.
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2000 poster; manuscript submitted).
Song J, Stinnett SS, Whitson JT, Kooner KJ. Ten-year surgical experience in childhood glaucoma. (presented at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery April 29, 2001, San Diego, CA).
Song J, Lee Y, Houston J, Petroll WM, Chakravarti S, Cavanagh HD, Jester JV. Neonatal corneal stromal development in the normal and lumican knockout mouse. (presented at Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2002 poster).
Song J, Skiest DJ, Safar AN, Edwards AO. PCR for etiologically equivocal retinitis in HIV patients without CD4 depletion. (presented at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery June 4, 2002, Philadelphia, PA).
Song J, Kooner KJ. Noncompliance in glaucoma.
Awan M, Song J, Kooner KJ. A comparison of normal, glaucoma suspect, and glaucoma patients using selected Heidelberg Retina Tomograph parameters.
Whitson JT, McCulley JP, Cavanagh HD, Song J, Bowman RW, Hertzog L. Effect of betaxolol on optic nerve head topography and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness after LASIK. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 2003; 29:2302-2305.
Song A, Song J, Joshi A, Dubovy SR, Neff AG. Wegener's granulomatous in orbit.
Lyon AT, Song J, Jampol LM, Burgess DB. Laser Photocoagulation and Cryotherapy.
Song J. The Difficulties of Twinship.