Gerami Seitzman, MD
Professor
Proctor Foundation
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

415-476-1442

Gerami Seitzman, MD is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a cornea and external disease specialist at the F.I. Proctor Foundation. She also sees patients with cornea and external disease diagoses at the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology.

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A native of Michigan, she obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. After an internal medicine internship, she completed her Ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She then spent an additional year completing a medical and surgical fellowship in cornea, external disease, and uveitis at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation at UCSF. After fellowship, Dr. Seitzman returned to Baltimore where she was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, part-time, at The Wilmer Eye Institute and was the full-time Director of Cornea, External Disease, and Uveitis at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. She is happy to return to the bay area and is very pleased to re-join UCSF as faculty. She enjoys teaching, communication, and patient care. She belongs to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor society, the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, is board certified, and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
  • Fellowship Cornea, External Disease, and Uveitis Francis I. Proctor Foundation/UCSF 2004
  • Residency Ophthalmology Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University 2003
  • Internship Internal Medicine St. Joseph Mercy Hopsital 2000
  • M.D. University of Michigan 1999

Publications (101)

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