Dr. Christina Kong graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a minor in Global Studies. She was conferred her M.D. by the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and completed a one-year research fellowship with the F.I. Proctor Foundation at University of California, San Francisco. Before starting her ophthalmology training at UPMC, she completed her transitional year in Internal Medicine at UPMC as well.