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Dr. Lin is a board-certified diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology and a fellowship-trained specialist in the diseases and surgery of the vitreous, retina, and macula. She manages and treats conditions such as Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Holes, and Retinal detachment.
Dr. Lin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Jacksonville, FL. She received her Bachelor of Science from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Then she returned to Florida to attend medical school at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and interned at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. She completed her residency in Ophthalmology at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in New York City, where she served one year as Chief Resident. Dr. Lin then returned to her hometown to complete a two-year medical and surgical vitreoretinal fellowship at the University of Florida at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville.
After her fellowship, Dr. Lin moved up to Cleveland, Ohio, to work at MetroHealth Hospital as the Assistant Director of Vitreoretinal and Eye Trauma, and was a Senior Clinical Instructor at Case Western Reserve University, teaching the ophthalmology residents from both Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic. She met her husband in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought him down to sunny Florida, where they enjoy the beaches with their son. Dr. Lin has practiced in the greater Tampa and Sarasota area for ten years.