Eileen Hwang
Rating: 4.7 of 5
( out of 242 reviews )

Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Redwood Health Center

1525 West 2100 South
Salt Lake City , UT 84119
801-213-9900
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Primary Children's Hospital

100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
801-662-1000
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  • Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of children and adults with retina conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, retinal vein occlusions, myopic degeneration, macular hole, epiretinal membrane, retinal tears, retinal detachment, retinopathy of prematurity, Sticklers syndrome, Coats disease, familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, and traumatic eye injury.

    Dr. Hwang received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University and her doctorate and medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her ophthalmology residency at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. She went on to finish a two-year fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she performed lensectomy, vitrectomy, scleral buckles, lasers, and injections in infants, children, and adults.

    As a researcher, Dr. Hwang has a proven track record of publications and independent research funding, including a Knights Templar Foundation (KTEF) Career-Starter Research Grant, being accepted into the University of Utah’s Vice President’s Clinical & Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholars Program, and receiving the VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award, the Randall J Olson Scholar Award from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, and an F30 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

    Get to know Dr. Hwang by watching her profile video.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Ophthalmology

    Patient Rating

    Rating: 4.7 out of 5
    4.7 /5
    ( out of 242 reviews )

    The patient rating score is an average of all responses on our patient experience survey. The rating averages scores for all questions about care from our providers.

    The scale on which responses are measured is 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.

    Patient Comments

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    REDWOOD HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    Dr, Hwang was very busy yet took her time with me, answered all my questions and was very nice.

    REDWOOD HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    I already tell folks how wonderful my doctor was.

    South Jordan Health Center
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    Excelente

    SOUTH JORDAN HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    A very effective practitioner.

    REDWOOD HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    Very professional knowledgeable. Explain the procedure and preform the examination adequately.

    MORAN EYE CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    Eileen S Hwang, MD, is a great professional and easy to talk to and she listens to what you have to say.

    REDWOOD HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    A+

    REDWOOD HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    Dr. Hwang is really thorough and observant. She is also friendly and calm, which is a nice thing when a person has just learned that their retina has a bunch of holes in it.

    SOUTH JORDAN HEALTH CENTER
    Rating: 5 out of 5

    I immediately liked her and felt comfortable with her

  • Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of children and adults with retina conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, retinal vein occlusions, myopic degeneration, macular hole, epiretinal membrane, retinal tears, retinal detachment, retinopathy of prematurity, Sticklers syndrome, Coats disease, familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, and traumatic eye injury.

    Dr. Hwang received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University and her doctorate and medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her ophthalmology residency at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. She went on to finish a two-year fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she performed lensectomy, vitrectomy, scleral buckles, lasers, and injections in infants, children, and adults.

    As a researcher, Dr. Hwang has a proven track record of publications and independent research funding, including a Knights Templar Foundation (KTEF) Career-Starter Research Grant, being accepted into the University of Utah’s Vice President’s Clinical & Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholars Program, and receiving the VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Research Award, the Randall J Olson Scholar Award from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, and an F30 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

    Get to know Dr. Hwang by watching her profile video.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences -Assistant Professor
    Board Certification
    American Board of Ophthalmology

    Education history

    Undergraduate Physics - Princeton University B.A.
    Professional Medical Medicine - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School M.D.
    Doctoral Training Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Ph.D.
    Internship Preliminary Internal Medicine - Ophthalmology - University of Utah School of Medicine Intern
    Residency Ophthalmology - University of Utah School of Medicine, John A. Moran Eye Center Resident
    Fellowship Vitreoretinal Surgery - Medical College of Wisconsin Fellow

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Hwang ES, Thiagarajan G, Parmar AS, Brodsky (2010). Interruptions in the collagen repeating tripeptide pattern can promote supramolecular association. Protein science, 19(5), 1053-64. (Read full publication)
    2. Cheng H, Rashid S, Yu Z, Yoshizumi A, Hwang E, Brodsky (2011). Location of glycine mutations within a bacterial collagen protein affects degree of disruption of triple-helix folding and conformation. The Journal of biological chemistry, 286(3), 2041-6. (Read full publication)
    3. Hwang ES, Brodsky (2012). Folding delay and structural perturbations caused by type IV collagen natural interruptions and nearby Gly missense mutations. The Journal of biological chemistry, 287(6), 4368-75. (Read full publication)
    4. Elizabeth C. Koller, Jessica A. Kraker, Hwang E (2021). Progression of partial posterior vitreous detachment over time. Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.), 41(7), 1396-1402.
    5. Hwang ES, Morgan DJ, Pennington KL, Owen LA, Fingert JH, Bernstein PS, DeAngelis M (2019). Progressive optic nerve changes in cavitary optic disc anomaly: integration of copy number alteration and cis-expression quantitative trait loci to assess disease etiology. BMC medical genetics, 20(1), 63. (Read full publication)
    6. Hwang ES, Stagg BC, Swan R, Fenzl CR, McFadden M, Muthappan V, Santiago-Caban L, Mifflin MD, Moshirfar (2017). Corneal biomechanical properties after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis and photorefractive keratectomy. Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 11, 1785-1789. (Read full publication)
    7. Bee CR, Koenig LR, Hwang ES, Koenig S (2018). Removal of calcific band keratopathy without ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in eyes with limited visual potential. Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 12, 1895-1899. (Read full publication)
    8. Hwang ES, Kraker JA, Griffin KJ, Sebag J, Weinberg DV, Kim J (2019). Accuracy of spectral domain optical coherence tomography of the macula for detection of complete posterior vitreous detachment. Ophthalmology. Retina, 4(2), 148-153.
    9. Kraker JA, Kim JE, Koller EC, George JC, Hwang E (2020). Standard 6 mm Compared to Wide Field 16.5 mm Optical Coherence Tomography for Staging of Posterior Vitreous Detachment. Ophthalmology. Retina, 4(11), 1093-1102.
    10. Randerson EL, Bogaard JD, Koenig LR, Hwang ES, Warren CC, Koenig S (2020). Clinical Outcomes and Lens Constant Optimization of the Zeiss CT Lucia 602 Lens Using a Modified Yamane Technique. Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 14, 3903-3912. (Read full publication)
    11. Hwang ES, Liu L, Ong MY, Rodriguez CM, Schwehr DE, Sanchez DE, Stoddard GJ, Weinberg D (2022). Self-reporting of conflicts of interest by ophthalmology researchers compared to the Open Payments Database industry reports. . Ophthalmology, 130(4), 387-393. (Read full publication)
    12. Hwang ES, Denise J. Morgan, Jieliyue Sun, M. Elizabeth Hartnett, Kimani C. Toussaint, Brittany Coat (2023). Confocal reflectance microscopy for mapping collagen fiber organization in the vitreous gel of the eye. Biomedical optics express, 14(2), 932-944.
    13. Morgan DJ, Ruiz AS, Cordner KP, Layton DJ, Coats B, Hwang E (2025). Preparing Porcine Eyes for Confocal Reflectance Microscopy to Visualize the Vitreous Collagen Fiber Network. Journal of visualized experiments, (224), (Read full publication)

    Review

    1. Phillips JD, Hwang ES, Morgan DJ, Creveling CJ, Coats (2022). Structure and mechanics of the vitreoretinal interface. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 134, 105399. (Read full publication)
    2. Carpenter CM, MacLachlan AG, Kwun CY, Johnson TJ, Baugh BT, Requejo Figueroa GA, Rivera-Flores S, Liu X, Stoddard GJ, Kraker JA, Hwang E (2025). Relative Risk of Retinal Detachment in COL2A1 Compared with COL11A1 Stickler Syndrome: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis. Ophthalmology. Retina, (Read full publication)

    Case Report

    1. Hwang ES, Bell JE, Quigley EP, Hoesch RE, Shakoor (2018). Stroke Due to Cerebral Vasculitis in a Patient with Relentless Placoid Chorioretinitis. Ocular immunology and inflammation, 26(6), 921.
    2. Sophie R, Moses GM, Hwang ES, Kim J (2019). Fundus hypopigmentation and loss of choroidal nevi pigmentation associated with nivolumab. JAMA ophthalmology, 137(7), 851-3.
    3. Hwang ES, Harrie RP, Desautels (2023). Bilateral Cataracts and Posterior Lentiglobus in USP9X Syndrome. Ophthalmology, (Read full publication)

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