Dr. Derrick T. Koo, O.D.

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Education:

• Undergraduate education at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physiological Sciences and Specialization in Business and Administration
• Doctor of Optometry education at the Southern California College of Optometry in Fullerton, CA
• Clinical training at Optometric Center of Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV

Licensure:

• California State Board of Optometry
  
• Treatment/management of ocular disease
  

Current Focus/Specialty:

• Family practice
  
• Contact lenses
  
• Eye infections/allergies
  

Research/Publications:

• National Eye Institute (NEI) funded project, conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry, titled "Characterization of the connexin mutations for eye size control and retinal function in mice"
  
•  "Correlations of the Grade Level Equivalent Scores Among Three Reading Tests" was funded by a grant from the American Academy of Optometry, and published in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry. The study intended to show the relationship between reading eye movements and reading comprehension. The full article can be found here: http://www.oepf.org/jbo/journals/19-1%20Barnhardt.pdf
  

Hobbies/Interests:

• Exercise/weight training, basketball, cooking, wakeboarding