Nika Bagheri, MD

Raised in the Conejo Valley, Dr. Nika Bagheri graduated as valedictorian from Agoura High School before enrolling at the University of California-Irvine with a full merit scholarship. She then received a full scholarship to attend the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio where she earned special qualification in biomedical research and a Research to Prevent Blindness Research Fellowship for her work regarding microglia in age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Bagheri subsequently completed her ophthalmology residency at the world-renowned Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During her time at Wills she served as co-editor of the best-selling Wills Eye Manual. After graduating from Wills she spent two years as a vitreoretinal surgical retina fellow at the top-ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. Dr. Bagheri has since practiced in her hometown in Westlake Village, California and the surrounding areas.

Dr. Bagheri has numerous peer-reviewed publications and has been an invited speaker and/or panelist to several international meetings including Retina Society, the Vit-Buckle Society, Women in Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, South African Vitreoretinal Society Congress, FujiRetina, and Eye Physicians and Surgeons Association of Alberta. She serves on the Executive Board of the Vit-Buckle Society, the fastest growing retina society in the United States supporting younger retinal specialists. In her spare time she enjoys being in nature and spending time with her husband and daughter.