Dr. William P. Chen, MD, Founder and Medical Director of the Asian Eyelid Surgery Center, graduated from U.C. Berkeley with Distinction in the Honors Program, double majoring in Biochemistry and Zoology. He holds a medical degree from the St. Louis University School of Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his Medical internship at USC and his residency training in Comprehensive Ophthalmology at UCLA, Jules Stein Eye Institute, and followed up with a Fellowship training in Eye Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Emory University, a prestigious program in this subspecialty.

Dr. Chen has practiced in Los Angeles and Orange Counties since 1985. In high demand as a speaker on his specialty in this country and abroad, Dr. Chen taught "Asian Blepharoplasty", his unique method for creating a natural double eyelid crease, to other surgeons at various workshops in Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery. He has been teaching this topic at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Annual National Meeting since 1988. Dr. Chen has published numerous scientific articles and chapters in textbooks, as well as being the original author of "Asian Blepharoplasty and the Eyelid Crease, 3rd edition (2016)" and two other recent textbooks related to Oculoplastic and Oculofacial Plastic Surgery.

 

Awards and Honors
1976 Wendell H. Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement and Research in Biochemistry, St.Louis University School of Medicine.

1976 Inducted to Alpha Omega Alpha;Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Academic Forum.

 

Formal Education and Training
1969 Diocesan Boys School; Hong Kong.
1972 University of California, Berkeley, A.B.*(Distinction); Honor Program Completed in Biochemistry; with double major in Zoology. 

1976 St.Louis University School of Medicine, M.D. Alpha Omega Alpha, National Medical Honor Society. 

1976-1977 LAC-USC Medical Center, Internship in Internal Medicine. 

1977-1980 Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute; Post-Graduate Resident in Ophthalmology, U.C.L.A.; Chief Resident in Ophthalmology.
1980-1981 Fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, under Clinton D. McCord, M.D.; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

University Faculty/Academic Appointments
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, and Jules Stein Eye Institute.
Senior Attending Surgeon, Eye Plastic Surgery Service, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.(Ophthalmology Residency Program)
2004 to Present—Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (VOL), Department of Plastic Surgery, UCI.
1985-88 Chief of Ophthalmology, U.C.Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA.
1980-81 Instructor of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine.
1973-74 Tutoring Instructor of Biochemistry, St.Louis University School of Medicine.