Philip Ngai, MD, MBA, MS
Dr. Philip Ngai is a Board-Certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained cataract & glaucoma specialist in Baldwin Park, CA, and West Covina, CA, serving the San Gabriel Valley and Greater Los Angeles Area.
Dr. Ngai is recognized by physicians and surgeons to be a Castle Connelly Top Doctor.
Board-certified
Fellowship-trained
glaucoma sub-specialist
Dr. Philip Ngai is a Board-Certified and Fellowship-trained glaucoma and cataract specialist. Dr. Ngai is the only glaucoma sub-specialist in West Covina and Baldwin Park, and one of the few the in the entire San Gabriel Valley region.
Dr. Ngai is highly trained in the latest glaucoma treatments, including minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, laser glaucoma surgery, and traditional incisional glaucoma surgery.
Dr. Ngai completed his residency training at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at University of California at Irvine, and performed his first glaucoma procedures under esteemed Director of Glaucoma, Dr. Sameh Mosaed.
Dr. Ngai completed his fellowship training in glaucoma, at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center, a glaucoma center for excellence, at the Shiley Eye Institute in the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Ngai trained directly under the world-renown glaucoma specialist, Dr. Robert Weinreb.
REFRACTIVE (Vision-enhancing) and complex cataract specialist
Dr. Philip Ngai completed his residency training at one of the top residencies for cataract surgery, the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute (GHEI) at University of California at Irvine, led at the time by the late, esteemed Cornea and Cataract expert, Dr. Roger F. Steinert. While at GHEI, Dr. Ngai also trained under cataract experts Drs. Sam Garg and Marjan Farid.
This rigorous cataract training program has been ranked in the top 90th percentile by volume for cataract surgeries among ophthalmology residencies nationwide.
As a glaucoma specialist, Dr. Ngai operates on some of the most complex cataract cases that are often found in patients with severe glaucoma. He has extensive experience in laser-assisted cataract surgery, refractive cataract surgery, suture-less cataract surgery, drop-less cataract surgery, astigmatism correction, presbyopia correction, and complex cataract surgery.
Glaucoma Advisor
Discussion Panelist
OPinion Leader
Dr. Philip Ngai is considered to be an expert in interventional glaucoma and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery.
Dr. Ngai specializes in combining various minimally invasive surgical approaches in order to achieve the maximum eye pressure control with the least amount of treatment risk.
Dr. Ngai works closely with some of the leading ophthalmology and glaucoma device companies such as Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), Alcon, Glaukos, Sight Sciences, iCare, and Iantrek. As an physician advisor, Dr. Ngai provides feedback on surgical instrument and device design, diagnostic imaging devices, maximizing office workflow, and health information management.
Dr. Ngai has participated as an expert panelist at ophthalmology national conferences, and been a host for numerous discussions regarding the latest approaches in glaucoma management.
Comprehensive Eye Care Specialist
Dr. Philip Ngai is a ophthalmology subspecialist in glaucoma and cataract treatment. Like all ophthalmologists, he is also trained in comprehensive and primary care of the eye.
Outside of glaucoma, his treatment expertise includes, but is not limited to: dry eye syndrome, diabetic eye disease, macular degeneration, pterygium, retina and retinopathies, corneal surface diseases and dystrophies, as well as many other common eye diseases.
About
Dr. Philip Ngai
Dr. Philip Ngai is a fellowship-trained cataract and glaucoma subspecialist in West Covina, Baldwin Park, and San Gabriel Valley. He also practices as a comprehensive ophthalmologist, and treats most common diseases of the eyes.
Dr. Ngai was born and raised in San Francisco, CA, and is one of two sons of immigrant parents. He is the first in his family to become a physician (his brother is a pediatric dentist).
Since Dr. Ngai was a child, his lifelong dream has always been to utilize his scientific interests, strong work ethic, and positive personality to create a lasting legacy and improve the lives of others.
He first discovered ophthalmology and eye surgery when his father suddenly became struck with glaucoma, and required emergency vision-saving surgery. The high precision, and more importantly, the high human impact of saving someone’s vision, made ophthalmology the one and only career choice for Dr. Ngai.
Among Dr. Ngai’s many outside interests are his desire to understand human behavior and what motivates people. He loves to experience different cultures and backgrounds not only while working as a physician with patients, but also though world travel.
Dr. Ngai combines his career and personal interests through volunteering in free clinics in Mexico, Santa Ana, CA, and downtown San Diego. He also spends time as a clinical instructor, and enjoys teaching new eye surgeons the art of medicine and surgery. When he is not traveling abroad, he is experiencing different cultures locally through food.
In order to keep his food interests physically sustainable, Dr. Ngai is also interested in fitness. He ran cross country and was a volleyball outside hitter in high school. He also rowed crew competitively both in high school and in college. These days, however, Dr. Ngai spends more time with resistance training inside a gym than on the waters rowing a boat.
Dr. Ngai is a DIYer, tinkerer, creator, and “lifehacker” by nature. He is also an Eagle Scout (ask him about his knot tying ability!). He loves spending time in his workshop fixing, building, and upgrading things. As a kid, he had built dozens of custom computers for family and friends. One of his ongoing projects has been to automate his entire house with voice-controlled lighting and security. His latest goal is to get his home off of the electrical grid and powering his home entirely though solar and battery power (without burning his house down!)