Retina Consultants of Hawaii Awards
Doctors Kokame, Lai, and Wee all have received numerous prestigious awards, listed below. Also, they were named Best Doctors of 2015!
Dr. Kokame
1998 – present: Best Doctors in America
2000- present: Top Doctors in Hawaii
2014: Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
2014: American Ophthalmological Society Inductee After Aceeptance of Thesis
2013: The 11th Thomas H. Pettit Lecture, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
2011: Hawaii Ophthalmological Society, Recognition for Support of Ophthalmic Research in Hawaii
2008: American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Secretariat Award
2003: Senior Honor Award, American Society of Retina Specialists
2001: Rhett Bucklers Video Award (Emmy for Vitreous Society), Surgical Maneuvers Category, Vitreous Society Puerto Rico
2001: Honor Award, Vitreous Society
1999: Achievement Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Dr. Lai
2009 – present: Best Doctors in America
2007 – present: Top Doctors in Hawaii
2005-2006: Teaching Attending of Year, Long Island Jewish/North Shore University, Department of Ophthalmology
2002: Hornaday Fellow Teaching Award, Duke University Eye Center
2000: Awarded AOS-Knapp Ophthalmic Foundation Fellowship
2000: Selected as Ronald G. Michels Foundation Award recipient
2000: Selected as the Society of Heed Fellows Fellow (awarded to the top Heed Fellow in the nation)
1999: Ronald G. Michels Resident Research Award, The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute
1996: Hewlett-Packard Award, Presented to the top 5 graduates of the medical school class
1996: Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, Awarded to the two graduating students who made outstanding research contributions during their medical school career
Dr. Wee
2012-present: Best Doctors in America
2012-present: Top Doctors in Hawaii
2009: “Golden Apple” Award for best fellow as elected by WashU ophth residents
2008: American College of Surgeons Exemplary Teaching Award – top 10 finalist
2003: Robert Carter Medical School Award from WashU Medical School
2003: Max and Evelyn Grand Prize from WashU Dept of Ophthalmology
2002: William Ellis Research Prize from WashU Dept of Ophthalmology
1998: Alan Bateman Prize from Yale University