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Curriculum Vitae
Ninani Emang Coyne Kombo MD
(Maiden Name: Ninani Emang Coyne)
Education:
08/01/2014 - present: Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Haven, CT
07/2013 -07/2014
Uveitis and Ocular Immunology Chief Clinical fellow, Massachusetts
Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Cambridge, MA
07/2010 – 06/2013: Ophthalmology resident; Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Haven, CT
07/2009 – 06/2010: Transitional Year; Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven CT
08/2004 – 05/2009: M.D. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT
08/1998 – 05/2002: B.A. Psychology; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
01/1994 – 12/1998: General Certificate of Education, Cambridge University, Ordinary
and Advanced Levels; Maru-a-Pula Secondary School, Gaborone,
Botswana
Awards and Honors:
June 2016
Bruce Shields Full Time Faculty Teaching Award
May 2016
Resident Research Day Judge (Invited), Yale Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Science
May 2015
Resident Research Day Judge (Invited), Yale Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Science
May 2008:
Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Fund: 2008/2009 Mary P.
Fellowship
April 2008:
Research Funding from the James G. Hirsch M.D., Endowed Medical
Student Research Fellowship
1999 – 2002:
Student Athlete
06/2000:
Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP)
Harvard University, Boston MA
06/1999:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellowship,
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Dole
Committees
2015 – present
Faculty Advisory Committee
2014 – present
Residency Interview Committee
2014 - present
Clinical Competence Committee Member– ACGME
Meet Biannually to evaluate resident performance
2014 – present
Program Evaluation Committee Member - ACGME
Meet Biannually to evaluate residency program and assess areas in
need of improvement
Teaching
09/2014 – present
09/2014 – present
01/2016 – present
Primary Care Clerkship: Red Eye
Physician Associates Program: Ocular Manifestations of Systemic
Disease
Medical Student Lecture Series: Ocular Manifestations of Systemic
Disease
Lectures and Invited Presentations
2017
February 2016
October 2015
April 2015
January 2015
December 2014
Yale Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds
Yale Hew Haven Hospital Mid Level Grand Rounds: The Red Eye.
What every practitioner should know.
Yale Rheumatology Grand Rounds: Red Eye
Yale Health Plan Clinical Round Table: Uveitis Presentation
CSEP Technicians Program: Uveitis History and Exam Clues
Yale Eye Center Grand Rounds: Uveitis Workup
Publications and Presentations:
Elia M, Kombo N, Huang J. Neurosarcoidosis Masquerading As A Central Nervous System
Tumor. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2016 Aug 26.
Dhanireddy S, Kombo NC, Payal AR, Freitas-Neto CA, Preble J, Foster CS.
The Ex-PRESS Glaucoma Filtration Device Implantation in Uveitic Glaucoma.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2016 May 26:1-8
Shaheen C. Kavoussi, Kyle D. Kovacs, Tarek Alasil, Patrick Coady, Ninani Kombo
Delayed bilateral fibrinous anterior chamber reaction following autologous bone marrow
transplant and cataract surgery. AJO Case Reports p8–10 Published online: April 14, 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2016.04.005
Ziai J, Matloff E, Choi J, Kombo N, Materin M, Bale AE. Defining the
polyposis/colorectal cancer phenotype associated with the Ashkenazi GREM1
duplication: counseling and management recommendations. Genet Res (Camb). 2016
Mar 7;98:e5
Boonspoon S, Maghsoudlou A, Kombo NE, Foster CS A therapeutic trial of
valganciclovir in patients with uveitis and positive Epstein-Barr virus early antigen D IgG
titers. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2015 Dec 1;26(1):30-5
Freitas-Neto CA, Costa RA, Kombo N, Freitas T, Oréfice JL, Oréfice F, Foster CS.
Subconjunctival indocyanine green identifies subconjunctival lymphatic vessels, JAMA
Ophthal. 2015 Jan;133(1):102-4
Elia MD, Kombo, N, Abbed K, Levin F, Servat J, Extraction of fronto-orbital Metallic radio
antenna through Stallard orbitotomy, Orbit. 2013 Apr;32(2):141-2.
Kaplowitz K, Kombo N, Tsai JC, Aqueous Shunts, International Ophthalmology Winter 2012
Ninani Kombo, Oathokwa Nkomazana M.D., Susan Forster M.D., Ron Adelman M.D. Poster
Presentation: “Ocular Manifestations of Cyrptococcal Meningitis in HIV/AIDS Patients”
ARVO May 2012
Kombo NC, Tsai JC, and Grippo TM, Glaucoma Evaluation in Patients with Diabetic
Retinopathy, Ophthalmology International, Winter 2011; Volume 6; p 104 - 105
Ninani Kombo, Nalini Vadivelu M.D., Poster Presentation: “Pain Management Education in the
Medical School Curriculum.” New York State Society of Anesthesiologists’ PGA/62 Meeting
December 12 – 14 2008
Vadivelu, N, Kombo, N, Hines, RL., The urgent need for pain management training Acad Med.
84(4):408 April 2009
Virtue, G, Coyne, Ninani, Hamilton, D., Convergent Synthesis of Isomeric Pairs of
Metallocene-Containing Polyether Macrocycles J. Org. Chem, Vol. 67, No. 19, 6856-6859
August 2002
Volunteer Experience:
1/2016 – present:
2007 – 2013:
High School Career Mentor
Glaucoma Screening Volunteer in Connecticut