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ABOUT THE DOCTORS

Gary Lai, O.D. is a San Francisco native. After receiving his undergraduate degree with a B.A in
Physiology from University of California Berkeley , he continued on and received his doctorate from
the School of Optometry at UC Berkeley. With more than 10 years of experience, he has worked at
University of California San Francisco, the Veterans Affairs Hospitals in Sacramento and Oakland,
and the Omni Eye Specialists in Denver. Before starting this new practice, he was the full-time staff
doctor in a busy San Mateo group practice for 5 years. Dr. Lai is a member of the California and
American Optometric Associations. He enjoys backpacking, mountain biking, snowboarding, and
photography.

Sharon Ho, O.D., F.A.A.O., also attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, with a B.A. in Molecular
Cell Biology. After receiving her doctorate from Southern California College of Optometry, Dr. Ho spent
an extra year of residency concentrating in Cornea and Contact Lenses at the prestigious Jules Stein
Eye Institute at University of California Los Angeles. She then went on to earn her distinction in
becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (F.A.A.O). Dr. Ho has practiced in various
specialty pediatric ophthalmology offices. Her passion is contact lenses of all types. On her spare
time, she enjoys cooking and travelling. More recently, though, their new daughter, Dana, born in
August 2005, has become the love of their life.

The doctors are Board Certified Optometrists with privileges to prescribe therapeutic pharmaceutical
agents. This is the highest level of achievement optometrists can attain allowing the doctors to treat
eye infections and perform certain ocular procedures.

OPTICIAN

Jim Weaver is originally from Southern California. He served in the United States Navy as a hospital
corpsman and was trained as an optician at the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Center in
Yorktown, Virginia. He has been an optician for more than ten years, with experience in all facets of
lens and frame design, fabrication, and fashions. Jim is an aspiring novelist, and also enjoys drawing,
studying medieval history, and cheering on the Anaheim Angels.