Physicians List

Dr. Anderson is building a private ophthalmology practice with a small town feel in a very large city. The goals of the practice are to provide personalized care with a compassionate touch. Dr. Anderson is always available for his patients and extends his care and devotion to each and every patient that walks through the door. Dr. Anderson is ready and able to see the entire family from child to parent to grandparent. He looks forward to serving you.

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Cantu has been helping people see the world differently. Board certified in ophthalmology, she is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as a respected member of numerous medical associations, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American College of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and Christian Ophthalmic Society.

Dr. Cantu is experienced in the extracapsular, phacoemulsification, and femtosecond laser methods of cataract surgery. Because she is well versed in the methods of cataract surgery and has performed over 10,000 cataract surgeries, she specializes in complex cataracts. Beyond cataracts, Dr. Cantu has found her niche with pterygium surgeries. Pterygiums are notorious for recurring; however, Dr. Cantu’s percentage of recurrence is less than 1% after having performed more than 6,000 pterygium surgeries.

Dr. Eric Chen grew up in the Austin suburb of Round Rock, Texas and graduated valedictorian of Round Rock High School. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, where he was appointed and served as Chief Resident. He then went on to complete the prestigious, two-year medical retina/retina surgery fellowship program at the Wills Hospital in Philadelphia (consistently rated among the top 3 programs in the nation).

Dr. Chen practiced in Austin, Texas for a year following his retina training prior to being recruited by Retina Consultants of Houston. Dr. Chen has published over 45 scientific papers, book chapters, and national meeting abstracts on vitreoretinal surgery, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, and the use of intravitreal medications. He is an elected member of The Retina Society, and his clinical and research interests include diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and surgical disorders of the macula and retina.

Warren D Cross M.D. is a founder of Warren Cross and Associates and The Laser Vision Center, West Loop in the Galleria Area. Dr. Cross conceived, designed, built and managed the Institute of Eye Surgery in Houston. This was the first outpatient eye surgical center designed and built from the ground up in Texas after the 1981 law changed. He was Cheif of Ophpthalmology at Twelve Oaks Hospital and Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital.

Dr. Pinninti is an expert in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, as well as surgical repair of retinal detachment, macular hole, epiretinal membrane and complex retinal detachments. She serves as a reviewer for the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Eye, and Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. She presents her continuing work and research at national and international scientific meetings

Dr. Pinninti is an avid runner, enjoys spending time with her family, horseback riding, and traveling. She takes great pride in her work and focuses in excellence in the clinic and surgical outcomes, clear explanations and compassionate care.

Education & Training:
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Fellowship: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC
• Residency: The George Washington University, Washington, DC
• Internship: Georgetown Univ. Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
• Medical School: Case Western Reserve, OH
• Undergraduate: Wellesley College, MA
Membership in Professional Societies:
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Society of Retina Specialists
• Schepens International Society
• SEE International

Dr. Andrew Salem was born and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Psychobiology and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and an Ophthalmology residency at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Salem also completed a Fellowship in Cornea, External Ocular Diseases, and Refractive Surgery at the world-renowned Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA.

Dr. Marc Sanders is a recognized leader in cataract and refractive surgery. Among the first surgeons to perform laser vision correction over fifteen years ago, Dr. Sanders has stayed at the forefront of this rapidly changing field. He was one of the first surgeons to offer new techniques, such as femtosecond all-laser LASIK, custom wavefront optimized LASIK, refractive lens exchange, laser assisted cataract surgery with the LenSx and Catalys lasers, and presbyopic intraocular lenses. Dr. Sanders is a part-time professor at Baylor College of Medicine where he teaches surgeons in training. Committed to education and research, Dr. Sanders has published articles in the leading ophthalmic journals and has participated in clinical trials.

Paul Stewart, M.D. is a board certified ophthalmologist, specializing in vitreoretinal surgery and ocular oncology. He was raised in Gainesville, Florida before coming to Houston to attend Rice University, where he graduated Cum Laude with majors in Biology and French. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine where he also performed his first fellowship, a post-sophomore fellowship in pathology. After completing his ophthalmology residency at Baylor College of Medicine as well, Dr. Stewart studied ocular oncology during a fellowship with Dr. Joan O’Brien at the University of California, San Francisco. Upon the completion of his fellowship, he continued at UCSF and was appointed Director of the Ocular Oncology Service.

Dr. Charles C. Wykoff is Co-Director of the Greater Houston Retina Research Foundation and serves as the elected Deputy Chair of Ophthalmology for the Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT, received his PhD from Oxford University in England while on a Marshall Scholarship, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. As a medical student he co-authored the book Fighting Global Blindness. Dr. Wykoff completed his ophthalmology residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the top rated eye hospital in the country. While there he was awarded a Heed Fellowship, the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship Award, which is the nation’s highest honor for a retina surgery fellow, and served as Chief Resident/Co-Director of Ocular Trauma.

Dr. Wykoff has extensive expertise in clinical trial design and coordination. His research interests pertain to angiogenesis and retinal vascular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and venous occlusive diseases, as well as vitreoretinal surgical topics such as retinal detachment and macular surgery. Dr. Wykoff has published over 70 peer reviewed scientific manuscripts and book chapters and presents regularly at national and international symposia. Dr. Wykoff was awarded the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award in 2015 and is an elected member of The Retina Society and The Macula Society. He also serves as the Academic Program Director for the Vit-buckle Society Annual Meeting, and is an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists and FACS.