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Aisha Simjee, MD

Accepting New Patients
Offers Video Visits
1310 West Stewart Drive, Suite 311
Orange, CA 92868
2257.5 miles away
Medical Groups & Affiliations
Providence Affiliated Physicians, St. Joseph
Speaks: English
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Southern California Eye Consultants

1310 West Stewart Drive, Suite 311, Orange, CA 92868

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About Aisha Simjee

Dr. Aisha Simjee is a remarkable physician and person who has dedicated her professional life and all her free time to helping others around the world. Her unparalleled compassion and passion for helping others is an inspiration for all of us.

Dr. Simjee has traveled around the world to more than 30 countries including El Salvador, Thailand, Vietnam, Armenia, Romania, Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and others, to provide free surgical services to those patients in need. She most recently visited the Syrian border to provide support and medical care for the many thousands of Syrian refugees.

She completed her medical degree with honors while in Burma, and then moved to the United States to complete a research fellowship at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Simjee then completed her residency at Howard University, and went on to her cornea fellowship in at the nationally known Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. As a true scholar, she also completed fellowships in ophthalmic pathology and medical retina at the Sheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia.

Aisha Simjee, MD, is beloved and highly respected in the Southern California medical community as a board-certified, fellowship-trained and compassionate ophthalmologist. She is known as an expert in corneal disease, and has performed numerous corneal transplant and cataract surgeries around the world. She has received considerable recognition for her charitable work locally and globally, including the following awards:

  • 1990 Annual Women of Achievement Award, Rancho Santiago Community College, Santa Ana, California
  • Certificates of Recognition from the following officials:
    • California State Senator John Seymour
    • California Congressman Christopher Cox
    • California Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy
  • 1993 Values in Action Award for Service, St. Joseph Hospital
  • 2004 Humanitarian Services Award, Orange County Board of Supervisors
  • 2005 Pride in the Profession Award, American Medical Association
  • 2006 Women of Vision Award, We Give Thanks
  • 2010 Physician of the Year Award, Orange County Medical Association
  • 2012 UCI School of Medicine Voluntary Faculty J. Edward Berk Physician Award for Humanitarian Services

Internship

South Baltimore General Hosital
1971

Residency

Howard University Hospital
1975

Fellowship

Schele Eye Institute

Fellowship

Wills Eye Hospital
1976

Medical School

Rangoon University
1968

Board Certifications
  • American Board of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology
Southern California Eye Consultants
1310 West Stewart Drive, Suite 311
Orange, CA 92868

Medical Groups & Affiliations
Providence Affiliated Physicians, St. Joseph

Affiliated Locations
Providence St. Joseph Hospital - Orange

Clinical Interests

  • Abnormal Pupil Function
  • Abnormal Red Reflex
  • Abnormalities Of The Eyes
  • Absence Of Eye
  • Accommodating Lens Implant
  • Accommodation
  • Achromatopsia
  • Acute Inflammation Of Orbit
  • Agenesis Of Eye
  • Allergic Conjunctivitis
  • Alternating Hyperphoria
  • Aniseikonia
  • Anisocoria
  • Anisometropia
  • Aphakia
  • Arterial Biopsy
  • Aspheric Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Astigmatism
  • Astigmatism Lenses
  • Autoimmune Retinopathy
  • Best Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy
  • Biopsy Of Eye
  • Blepharoptosis
  • Blepharospasm
  • Blind In One Eye
  • Blood Clot In Eye
  • Blurred Vision
  • Brown Syndrome
  • Buphthalmos
  • Cataract
  • Cataract Removal
  • Ciliary Body Adenocarcinoma
  • Ciliary Body Degeneration
  • Color Blindness
  • Complex Cataract Surgery
  • Cone Rod Dystrophy
  • Conjunctival Injury
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Contact Lens Induced Corneal Edema
  • Contact Lens Infections
  • Contact Lenses
  • Corneal Diseases
  • Dacryocystorhinostomy
  • Diabetic Eye Exam
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Diode Laser Cyclophotocoagulation
  • Diplopia
  • Disorders Of The Vitreous
  • Dissociated Vertical Deviation
  • Divergence Insufficiency
  • Dry Eyes
  • Ectopia Lentis
  • Ectropion
  • Enhanced S Cone Syndrome
  • Entropion
  • Epiretinal Membrane
  • Esotropia
  • Extramacular Disciform Lesions
  • Eye Cancer
  • Eye Health
  • Eye Lesions
  • Eye Pain
  • Farsightedness
  • Floaters
  • Floppy Eyelid Syndrome
  • Foreign Body (Cornea)
  • Fuchs Dystrophy
  • Giant Cell Arteritis
  • Glaucoma
  • Grave's Disease
  • Herpes Simplex With Ophthalmic Complication
  • Idiopathic Orbital Inflammatory Disease
  • Inflammation Of The Eyelid
  • Iritis
  • Keratitis
  • Keratoconus
  • Laceration Of Eye
  • Laser Vision Correction
  • Legal Blindness
  • Linear Nevus Sebaceous Syndrome
  • Lipiflow
  • Lipiview
  • Lupus Eye Conditions
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Macular Hole
  • Melanoma Of Eye
  • Microsurgery
  • Monofocal Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Multifocal Lens Implant
  • Myopia
  • Neurotrophic Keratopathy
  • Night Blindness
  • No Stitch Cataract Surgery
  • Nystagmus
  • Nystagmus Testing
  • Ocular Hypertension
  • Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
  • Ophthalmic Trauma
  • Optic Nerve Disease
  • Optic Neuritis
  • Optic Neuropathy
  • Optic Neve Hypoplasia
  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Orbital Floor Fracture
  • Papilledema
  • Pars Planitis
  • Premium Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Presbyopia
  • Pseudophakia
  • Pseudostrabismus
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri
  • Pterygium
  • Punctal Plugs For Dry Eyes
  • Red Eye
  • Red Reflex Exam
  • Refractive Amblyopia
  • Refractive Lens Exchange
  • Replacement Of Contact Lens
  • Retinal Degeneration
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Retinal Neovascularization
  • Retinal Vein Occlusion
  • Retinitis Pigmentosa
  • Ruptured Vessel Of Eye
  • Scleritis
  • Sensitivity To Light
  • Serum Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Test
  • Shingles Of The Eye
  • Sjogrens
  • Stevens Johnson Syndrome
  • Strabismus
  • Stye
  • Sudden Vision Loss
  • Tear Osmolarity Test
  • Toric Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Toric Lenses
  • Uveitis
  • Viral Conjunctivitis
  • Virtual Care
  • Vision Loss
  • Visual Discomfort
  • Visual Disturbance
  • Visual Field Defects
  • Visual Impairment
  • Weakness Of Eye Closure
  • Xerophthalmia