Our Doctors

Nancy Chen, MD

After graduating from medical school, Dr. Nancy Chen pursued a research fellowship at the Doheny Eye Institute/University of Southern California. She then completed a one-year internal medicine internship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. After the internship, Dr. Chen continued her research fellowship at the Center for Sight at Georgetown School of Medicine in Washington, DC. Her post-graduate training continued with a three-year ophthalmology residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Chen has multiple publications in the Ophthalmic Society and has received several awards, including “Resident of the Year” from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (2000) and the “Gordon Award” from the Alamo City Ophthalmology Clinical Conference (1999). She has also been active in community service in Hawaii since she started to practice here. The activity she considers most honorable is the Senior Program that helps elderly citizens who don’t have insurance.

Dr. Chen is fluent in English, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish, speaks some Japanese, and is learning Illocano.

Dr. Natalie Ouk, OD

Dr. Natalie Ouk, OD is of Cambodian Chinese descent, born in Los Angeles, California. She is from a bicultural upbringing with parents who lived in Oahu in the late 1980s.

Dr. Ouk grew up in Southern California and went on to obtain her doctorate degree in 2017 from Midwestern university, College of Optometry in Glendale, Arizona. Dr. Ouk became proficient in speaking Spanish during her internship in El Paso, Texas.

She is now excited to expand her scope of practice at Kapolei Eye Care where she has treated patients with Diabetes, Glaucoma, Macular degeneration and other ocular pathologies. She plans to set her roots on the island and volunteer in organizations where she is needed in order to help the beautiful people of Hawaii with their visual health and wellness.