Christopher Dermarkarian, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, joined Duke Eye Center as a member of the Oculofacial and Orbital Surgery Division.
His clinical interests are wide-ranging and include the following: management of eyelid disorders, “droopy eyelids” and eyelid malposition (dermatochalasis, ptosis, entropion, ectropion, etc.), management of eyelid tumors and cancer, reconstruction of the face or eyelids following traumatic injuries or Mohs surgery, brow lifts, cosmetic upper and lower eyelid surgery, medical and surgical management of thyroid eye disease, orbital inflammation and orbital tumors, management of anophthalmic sockets, and management of lacrimal drainage dysfunction.
Dermarkarian completed a prestigious ASOPRS fellowship at the University of California, Irvine after completing his residency training in ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dermarkarian received his medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dermarkarian received his undergraduate degree from Duke University.
Dermarkarian’s research interests include eyelid and orbital cancers as well as improving treatments outcomes for the most common oculoplastic procedures.
Outside of work, Dermarkarian enjoys fitness classes, sporting events, cooking, visiting new restaurants and spending time with his family and wife.
Michelle Go, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, joined Duke Eye Center faculty after completing a Research Fellowship followed by a Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Surgery Fellowship, both at Duke. Prior to joining Duke, she was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina.
Go provides specialized medical and surgical treatment for conditions such as tearing, amblyopia, strabismus, pediatric cataract, and childhood glaucoma. Her research interests include home tonometry and OCT imaging in children with glaucoma.
She received her BA in Biochemistry and MS in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, PA, and her medical degree from the University of Illinois at Peoria. After an Internal Medicine internship, she completed an Ophthalmology residency and served as Chief Resident at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Arpita Maniar, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, joined the newly established ocular oncology division after completing her ocular oncology fellowship at Duke in 2023. She also completed a fellowship in oculoplastics, ocular oncology, orbit and reconstructive surgery at the LV Prasad Eye Institute.
Maniar provides comprehensive care for a wide variety of benign and malignant tumors affecting the eye and its surrounding structures, across all age groups. This includes common ocular tumors like melanoma, lymphoma, ocular metastasis and retinoblastoma to eyelid tumors like squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma, to less common and rare orbital and ocular surface tumors. She also manages ocular side-effects from systemic chemotherapeutic drugs. She often collaborates with other specialists from radiation oncology, interventional radiology, medical oncology, ENT and neurosurgery to deliver comprehensive cancer care.
Her research interests lay in studying ocular melanomas and retinoblastomas. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these conditions, and has delivered talks at regional, national and international conferences. Maniar is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and All India Ophthalmological Society.
Qiaohui Wei White, OD, MS, Medical Instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology. She is a pediatric optometrist who joined Duke after completing her Residency in Pediatric Optometry and Ocular Disease at Duke in 2023. White specializes in myopia management and specialty contact lenses including scleral lenses, aphakic contact lens fitting, and orthokeratology. She also specializes in amblyopia, strabismus, and co-management of pediatric ocular diseases with pediatric eye surgeons.
White earned her Bachelor of Medicine degree in China before completing her Standard Ophthalmology Residency Training in China from 2015-2018. Following that, she obtained her doctorate degree in Optometry in a joint MS/OD program at the New England College of Optometry in Boston, Massachusetts.