Title
Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Residencies for On-campus programs
Title
Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Residencies for On-campus programs
Education
BS
Waseda University, Japan
OD
University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Residency
Primary Care/Contact Lens, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Publications
Kanai K, Whiteside M, Wong M, et al.
Case Series: Unbiased Deep Sequencing Analysis of Acute Infectious Conjunctivitis in an Ambulatory Eye Center in Berkeley. Optom Vis Sci. 2023: March 7, 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0000000000002010.
Varadarajan AV, Bavishi P, Ruamviboonsuk P, Chotcomwongse P, Venugopalan S, Narayanaswamy A, Cuadros J, Kanai K, et al. “Predicting Optical Coherence Tomography-derived diabetic macular edema grades from fundus photographs using deep learning”. Nature Communications (2020) 11:130 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13922-8
Kanai K “When to Send a Hypertensive Patient to the ER” Optometry Times September 2018: 10(09); 1~24
Litvin TV, Bresnick GH, Cuadros JA, Selvin S, Kanai K, Ozawa GY. “A Revised Approach for the Detection of Sight-Threatening Diabetic Macular Edema.” JAMA Ophthalmology 2016 December doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2016.4772
Kanai K. “Hypertensive Crisis in the Optometry Office” California Optometry 2016; March~April
Kanai K, Wolff B, Whiteside M. “Diabetic retinopathy: The risk of vision loss and beyond” California Optometry 2013; 40(6); 36 – 41
About Dr. Kanai
Dr. Kuniyoshi Kanai is a UCBSO grad, the class of 2007. After completing Primary Care residency, he remained as a clinical faculty. His primary focus is on resident education as well as studying systemic disease and its effect on the eye. Outside work, Dr. Kanai is a happy husband and a father of two active kids. He enjoys pushing his car to its limit and also himself on the bicycle. If you don’t find him at work or home, you may find him driving at Sonoma Raceway or riding a bicycle at the Mount Diablo.