Dr. Sami attended medical school and his internship in medicine locally at UCLA. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He completed two fellowships in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus; first a combined research and clinical fellowship at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, England; and a second at the Harvard fellowship program of Children’s Hospital Boston. Dr. Sami’s academic and research interests include development of the visual system, motility of ocular prostheses, hereditary and systemic eye disorders of childhood, and retinopathy of prematurity.