Address:  Doheny Vision Research Center                  1355 San Pablo Street, Suite 111                  Los Angeles, CA 90033 Email:        lyow@doheny.org Phone:      (323) 442-6571 Fax:          (323) 442-6755

 

Background

 

Ms. Yow completed a dual Biomedical and Electrical Engineering degree at the University of Southern California and began working on electro-optic semiconductors at TRW. While there, she also completed her Masters degree in electro-optics through the Distance Learning program at USC. She then combined this unique training to work on laser-tissue interaction at the Beckman Laser Institute at UCI. This led her to spend 12 years at Coopervision/Alcon Labs designing and evaluating ophthalmic surgical devices. Her time spent in the operating room observing new devices also allowed her to function as a scrub nurse in cataract surgeries in third world countries.

With an interest in new product development, she undertook an executive MBA in Healthcare and IT at University of California, Irvine. She then joined a classmate to form a start-up medical device firm in Ob/Gyn using venture capital. She holds 3 medical device patents.

Ms Yow is now the project manager of the Department of Energy Artificial Retina Project, coordinating the efforts of six national labs and four universities. She is happy to say that every thing she has learned since high school is applicable to her job.

She is an American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) scientific diver and a volunteer exhibit diver for the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA.

 

Research Activities
Artificial Retina 
Electro-physiology
Brain activation 


Publications

L. Yow, S. Basti (1997)
Physical and Mechanical Principles of Phacoemulsification and Their Clinical Relevance

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

 

Y. Baribeau, J. Eugene, L. Yow, M.W. Berns, et al (1991)

Eximer Laser Radiation for Endarterectomy of Experimental Atheromas

Journal of Investigative Surgery, 4: 247-258

 

L. Yow, J.S. Nelson, M.W. Berns (1989)

Ablation of Bone and PolyMethylmethacrylate by an XeCl (308nm) Eximer Laser

Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, 9: 141-147

 

J.S. Nelson, L. Yow, M.W. Berns, et al (1988)

Ablation of Bone and Methacrylate by a Prototype Mid-Infrared Erbium:YAG Laser

Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, 8 [5]