Meet Dr. Zheng
Languages Spoken: Medical Spanish
Dr. Andrew Zheng's approach to patient care is rooted in a compassionate understanding of the profound impact that vision loss can have on a person’s quality of life. Recognizing that sight-threatening retinal disease presents a uniquely distressing and vulnerable situation, he strives to guide his patients, with empathy and expertise, through complex medical problems and decisions to arrive at the best possible visual outcome. Dr. Zheng has keen interest and experience in the medical and surgical management of a broad array of vitreoretinal conditions including retinal detachment, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal abnormalities, and disorders of the lens; he is also a fellowship-trained uveitis specialist with a passion for taking care of patients with inflammatory or infectious diseases of the eye. At Colorado Retina Associates, Dr. Zheng is able to access state-of-the-art diagnostic, imaging, and treatment modalities to care for all of his patients across this diverse array of retinal and uveitic conditions.
Dr. Zheng's journey throughout his medical education and training has taken him around the country and across five states before landing him in Colorado. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in chemistry and biology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, he attended and graduated from medical school at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. During his time in medical school, Dr. Zheng was awarded a prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship which allowed him to pursue research in inherited retinal degenerations at Columbia. He then completed a transitional year preliminary internship at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California before moving to Ohio, where he completed ophthalmology residency and uveitis fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Cole Eye Institute. Finally, he completed his two-year fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Emory Eye Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was also awarded Fellow of the Year.
When not in the office or the operating room, Dr. Zheng takes full advantage of living in Colorado and spends as much time as possible hiking and exploring in the mountains. He also loves food of every kind and is always trying a new recipe in his home kitchen or seeking out new restaurants in Denver and Boulder. He lives in Aurora with his partner and their spirited Shiba Inu, Niko.
Undergraduate
- BS, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2011
• Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
• Bachelor of Science in chemistry and biology, cum laude
Medical School
- MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2016
• College of Physicians and Surgeons
- BS, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2011
