Ophthalmologist William De La Peña, MD, will serve as a member of the "Future of University of California, San Francisco" advisory board assembled to help ensure UCSF excels as a health sciences innovator and delivers on its mission, according to a news release.
The new UCSF board will serve as strategic advisors to the institution's chancellor and, through the chancellor, to its president and board of regents.
Dr. De La Peña is a University of California regent and a professor of ophthalmology. He is founder and medical director of the De La Peña Eye Clinic, which has locations throughout Southern California.
He received his MD from Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, completed a residency in ophthalmology at University of California, Irvine, completed a fellowship in cornea and external disease at Moorfields Eye Institute, University of London in England, and completed a cornea fellowship at Louisiana State University, according to his bio.
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