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Rupa Krishnamurthy Wong is an ophthalmologist, businesswoman, and social media influencer. Along with clinical practice, Wong holds membership and leadership positions in a variety of volunteer and professional organizations including Project Vision Hawaii, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, and Association for Healthcare Social Media. Wong is dedicated to finding work-life harmony and encourages others to do the same through her podcast "It's Good To See You". Wong shares highlights of both professional and private life through her social media platforms.

Early Life and Education
Rupa Wong grew up in North Carolina. She attended undergraduate college at Duke University on a Benjamin N. Duke Leadership Scholarship. In 1998, she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Religion. Wong graduated with a medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 2002. She went on to complete her intern year at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and residency in ophthalmology at New York University-Manhattan Eye, Ear, & Throat Hospital serving as chief resident in her final year. She completed a pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.

Personal Life
Wong is the daughter of Kris Murthy, an electrical engineer who works as a telecommunications program manager for a unit of ITT in Herndon, Virginia and Dr. Banu Krishnamurthy, a child psychiatrist who works in Raleigh for the Social Security Administrations. She has a younger brother who has a PhD in Chemical Biology from Harvard University.

In 2008, Dr. Rupa Krishnamurthy Wong married Dr. Jeffrey Jason Wong, also an ophthalmologist, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. Their wedding was featured in the New York Times. They held a Presbyterian ceremony and a traditional Brahmin ceremony at the hotel. In 2018, the couple celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary with a vow renewal on Maui. The couple met in New York and currently reside on Oahu where Dr. J. Wong grew up. They have three children together.

Wong is conversational in Spanish and Tamil. Wong enjoys tennis, Indian dance, restoring furniture, and yoga.

Early Career
During college, Wong worked as a science teacher and department chair at Summerbridge in Locust Valley, New York. There, she taught six grade science and organized the departmental science fair for middle school children. Wong also worked as a teaching assistant in Durham, North Carolina teaching classes in world religions and mathematics problem solving. During medical school, Wong worked as a research fellow in the Cornell Medical College Department of Neurology sponsored by Dr. Norman Relkin and later a clinical research assistant in the Cornell Medical College Department of Ophthalmology sponsored by Dr. D. Jackson Coleman. During February to April of 2002, Wong worked as a clinical research assistant at the Sankara Nethralaya Eye Institute in Madras, India. In July of 2007, Wong directed Ophthalmology Resident Training at Children's Hospital Boston as an Associate in Ophthalmology. She chose to depart from the position in June 2008.

Honolulu Eye Clinic
Wong is a practicing ophthalmologist and managing partner at the Honolulu Eye Clinic. She is cares for both adults and children and enjoys treating adult ocular conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma, dry eyes, uveitis, diabetic retinopathy, as well as routine eye exams. She specializes in all of the ocular surgeries performed in infants and children as well as adult strabismus surgery. Wong is also certified in the injections of facial fillers and Botox for the eyes and face and is skilled in the techniques of eyelid surgery.

Social Media
Wong has engaged with social media platforms since 2018 and uses social media to increase patient education and visibility of women in medicine. Wong started on Instagram and connected with other physicians that were involved in social media as well. Together, they founded the non-profit organization, the Association for Healthcare Social Media. The organization is a resource for healthcare professionals and advocates for social media to be a public health tool that promotes accurate health information. She currently has 120.4 thousand followers on TikTok, 65.8 thousand followers on Instagram, and 44.9 thousand subscribers on YouTube. She also hosts a weekly podcast, "It's Good to See You with Dr. Rupa Wong," where she discusses the intricacies of work-life balance, time management, entrepreneurship, and living life on your own terms.

Teaching
Wong is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her teachings include but are not limited to lessons on branding, social media usage as.a physician, work life balance, and gender inequity.

Volunteer
Wong is involved in the community in multiple ways including her roles as a Member of Board of Directors and Medical Director for Project Vision, Member of Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, and Founding Member and Executive Committee Member of Association for Healthcare Social Media.

Through Project Vision, Wong has contributed her time as a physician through pro bono checkups. She was also honored at the 2017 Project Vision Eye Ball.

Wong serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii. A notable annual event curated by Wong is the Dior x Big Brothers Big Sisters charity event.

Professional Organizations
Wong is board certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology and a Fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Additionally, she is a member and Vice Chair of Digital Education of the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmologists and Strabismus and has presented her research at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists conferences.

Pinnacle Conference
Wong is one of four female physicians that founded the annual Pinnacle Conference. The Pinnacle Conference is a professional development conference designed to empower women in medicine. The event is a multi-specialty conference that is filled with workshops and events that guide professional women in medical settings to the pinnacle of their leadership, negotiation, and life-balancing skills. Sessions are led by guest speakers that discuss topics such as media and marketing, self care, and professional goals.

Books
Learning Strabismus Surgery: A Case-Based Approach. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2012.

Articles

 * 1) Shaaban, Sherin, et al. "Genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for comitant esotropia and suggests a parent-of-origin effect." Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 59.10 (2018): 4054-4064.
 * 2) Culjat, Marko, et al. "Clinical and imaging findings in an infant with Zika embryopathy." Clinical Infectious Diseases 63.6 (2016): 805-811.
 * 3) Wong, Rupa Krishnamurthy, and Deborah K. VanderVeen. "Presentation and management of congenital dacryocystocele." Pediatrics 122.5 (2008): e1108-e1112.
 * 4) Krishnamurthy, R., and E. T. Cunningham. "Atypical presentation of syphilitic uveitis associated with Kyrieleis plaques." British Journal of Ophthalmology 92.8 (2008): 1152-1153.
 * 5) Nalbandyan, Marine. Descriptive and Risk Factor Analysis of Infantile Cataracts. State University of New York at Albany, 2019.
 * 6) Rondeau, Mark J., et al. "Very high frequency ultrasound biometry of the anterior and posterior chamber diameter." Journal of Refractive Surgery 20.5 (2004): 454-464.
 * 7) Bentel, Gunilla C., et al. "Comparison of two repositioning devices used during radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease." International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 38.4 (1997): 791-795.
 * 8) Bentel, Gunilla C., Lawrence B. Marks, and Rupa Krishnamurthy. "Impact of cradle immobilization on setup reproducibility during external beam radiation therapy for lung cancer." International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 38.3 (1997): 527-531.