About Luxme Hariharan, MD, MPH

Dr. Luxme Hariharan (aka Dr. Lux) is a pediatric ophthalmologist. As an accomplished global researcher and child health advocate, Dr. Hariharan has a passion for international health that is deeply rooted in her own background.

Dr. Hariharan earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. She completed a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania/Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia, followed by a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine/Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Hariharan then pursued an additional fellowship in pediatric cornea, cataract and glaucoma with an emphasis on international health at the University of Southern California (USC) Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She also holds a Master of Public Health with an emphasis on global and child health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.