Awards

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!

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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