Biography

Dr. Gioconda Mojica is a fellowship-trained ophthalmologist who specializes in cornea and external diseases. After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S., Dr. Mojica completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

She completed a transitional year internship at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill., and stayed in Chicago to complete her ophthalmology residency at the University of Chicago. Her final year of training included a fellowship in Cornea, External disease and Refractive Surgery at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Mojica cared for patients in northern California where she worked for Kaiser Permanente for a year before relocating to Nashville, Tenn., where she worked as assistant professor of ophthalmology, teaching residents at the Murfreesboro and Nashville VA.

She then moved to Houston, where she serves Harris County residents at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital. She often treats patients with advanced disease, requiring a high level of clinical and surgical treatment. She is passionate about teaching medical students and residents in clinic and in the operating room. She plays a supportive role to the Harris Health Chief of Ophthalmology as Deputy Assistant Chief of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Mojica is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Texas Medical Association. She is also an active Member with Thesis of the Cornea Society.