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Department Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	Closed
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Welcome to our Department Home Page!

Welcome to the Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Ophthalmology Department Home Page. Our primary goal is to provide outstanding service in the diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic diseases.

For those of you who are not familiar with Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology is a medical specialty that focuses on diseases of the eye. The most common diseases we treat include conjunctivitis, iritis, cataracts, glaucoma, strabismus, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

There are seven physicians in the department of Ophthalmology at the downtown San Rafael Kaiser Permanente Medical Center at Third and A Steet. These are Dr. David Claiborne, Dr. Alice Cheng-Bennett, Dr. Peter Gorenberg, Dr. Richard Alvarado, Dr. Jyotsom Ganatra and our oculoplastic specialist and department chief Dr. Gregg Gayre. To find out more about us, please visit our individual websites.

We are lucky to have a very talented group of support staff including our manager Laura Sullivan RN, our head nurse Jackie Babcock RN, and the charge nurse of our special procedure rooms Dolores Cuerva RN. We also have an excellent group of nurses and vision service assistants who work with us.

We do most of our ophthalmic surgery in our procedure rooms that are located in the clinic at our Downtown San Rafael facility. We are fortunate to have such a dedicated staff for our surgical procedures.

In addition to our ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment services at our downtown San Rafael facility we also offer Optometric services which encompasses fitting of glasses and contact lenses. Our optometrists at the downtown facility include Dr. Stephen Godfrey, our chief of Optometry, as well as Dr. David Nakagawa, Dr. Vince Delgadillo, Dr. Jane Lee-Koida, Dr. Joan Mah, Dr. Janine Chin, Dr. Charles Dahlman, Dr. Michel Nadel and Dr. Paul Yee. A large optical shop supervised by Mr. Clyde Curl is located on the first floor of our building and they offer a wide variety of frames as well as contact lens services.

We are very proud of our Department. We will do our best to serve you and welcome your feedback.

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