Career plans: Vitreoretinal Fellowship, Mass. Eye and Ear

Dr. Ung, originally from Los Angeles, graduated cum laude from Harvard University with her AB in Biochemical Sciences and a minor in Economics. Cindy earned her MD from Stanford School of Medicine and completed an internship in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She was the recipient of a Stanford Medical Scholars Award and a National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award. She was a research assistant at Oxford University and Harvard Medical School, and a Graduate Researcher at San Francisco General Hospital where she designed and led a clinical research study on glaucoma severity and medical adherence, leading to several first-author articles in publications such as Ophthalmology and the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Dr. Ung balances her work with extracurricular activities that aim to improve healthcare for the public, and has spent time in Peru and China conducting global health work.