Dr. Lily Chen’s journey in optometry began during her undergraduate studies at UCLA while volunteering at the UCLA Stein Eye institute. Dr. Chen then received her doctoral degree from UC Berkeley School of Optometry with rotation experience at the VA Central California Health Care System, Alameda Health System - Hayward, VA Livermore Medical Center, and the UCSF-UCB Berkeley Outpatient Clinic.

Dr. Chen has always enjoyed working with children whether it is serving in the children’s ministry as a Sunday school teacher at her local church or training her pediatric patients in vision therapy. Her interest in pediatric eye care led her to pursue a postdoctoral residency in Pediatrics, Vision Therapy, and Neuro-Optometry at Dr. Derek Tong’s Center for Vision Development Optometry in Pasadena (affiliated with Southern California College of Optometry at MBKU). During residency, Dr. Chen worked with numerous patients with eye turns, lazy eyes, visual perceptual problems and learning issues. Dr. Chen sees patients primarily at our Reseda office.

In her free time, Dr. Chen enjoys traveling, playing piano, and watching Chinese shows with her family. One interesting fact about Dr. Chen is that she actually started at Eyecon first as an Ortho-K patient herself back in 2013. Close to a decade later, she now treats patients in Ortho-K, vision therapy and neuro-optometry as a doctor herself. Dr. Chen also loves dogs, especially an Instagram Cavachon dog named Andy from Japan (ask her for Andy’s pictures).

Education 

Pediatric/Vision therapy/Neuro-Optometry Residency from Center for Vision Development Optometry (affiliated with Southern California College of Optometry at MBKU)

Doctor of Optometry from UC Berkeley School of Optometry

Bachelor of Science from UCLA

Professional Affiliations

- American Academy of Optometry

- California Optometric Association

- American Optometric Association