Peter H. Tang, MD, PhD
Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina
Assistant Professor
167 Ashley Avenue
MSC 676
Charleston, SC 29425
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Professional Affiliations
Academic Appointments- Assistant Professor, Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina
Education and Training
- Retinal fellowship
- Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Ophthalmology residency
- University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Internship
- Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Medical School
- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
- College
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA, USA
Biography
Born in Changsha, China, I immigrated with my family to Los Angeles, California at a young age and grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I attended the University of Pennsylvania where I majored in Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience. It was during college when I worked in a laboratory at the Scheie Eye Institute at Penn that my passion for Ophthalmology was sparked. Afterwards, I attended the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston where I was enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program and simultaneously obtained both Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. My dissertation research evaluated the role of vitamin A metabolism in genetic diseases of the retina for which I was awarded numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Research to Prevent Blindness foundation.
During my time in medical school, I was honored as a Presidential Scholar, received the Dean’s Scholarship, and graduated with a Ph.D. with Distinction. This was followed by a one year internship at the Hennepin County Medical Center and then Ophthalmology residency training at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. As a resident, I received the Resident Research Award from the Department of Ophthalmology, a research fellowship from the VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation, and consecutive Resident Teaching Awards from the medical school for each year of my residency. I then returned to California to complete a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery at the Byers Eye Institute at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto.
I began my career in private practice at VitreoRetinal Surgery (now the Retina Consultants of Minnesota) in 2019 in the metropolitan Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, where I practiced surgical retina and was the director of the Ocular Oncology service. In late 2023, I made the transition back to academia by joining my alma mater at the Storm Eye Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston as faculty practicing both surgical retina and ocular oncology. I am fully board-certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology as well as an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Retina Specialists. I am also an editor and reviewer for numerous ophthalmic medical journals as well as a writer and teacher for the Osler Institute and OphthoQuestions, both of which are ophthalmology board exam preparation programs.