Brian Song, MD

Brian J. Song, MD, MPH, FACS, specializes in the medical and surgical management of glaucoma, including advanced laser treatments, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and cataract surgery.

Dr. Song serves as glaucoma fellowship director and director of education in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is also telehealth champion and physician quality champion for the USC Roski Eye Institute.

His research interests include evaluating new methods, such as telemedicine, to improve glaucoma detection. He is also working with collaborators to investigate ways to better evaluate the optic nerve and blood flow abnormalities in glaucoma using novel ultrasound and vascular imaging techniques.

He has conducted National Institutes of Health-sponsored research, evaluating glaucoma detection methods for diabetes patients, and has presented these and other findings both nationally and internationally. Dr. Song was a coauthor of the American Glaucoma Society Position Paper: Microinvasive Glaucoma Surgery and has received an Emerging Vision Scientist Award from the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research.

Dr. Song was born in New Jersey but grew up in Houston, TX, before moving to Southern California and joining the USC Roski Eye Institute in 2019.

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