Dr. Shelley Day Ghafoori grew up in Sunnyvale, California and later moved to Massachusetts where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in History and Science. She stayed in Boston and attended Harvard Medical School where she was awarded the competitive Beecher Prize and Osler Medal. She then completed a top-tier general ophthalmology residency program at the University of California, San Francisco where she was the recipient of the Garcia/Asbury Award for research. She traveled back to the east coast to complete a 2-year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Duke University, training with world-renowned faculty. During this time, she was the recipient of the nationally awarded Heed Ophthalm...