Dr. Ip completed his medical studies at New York University's School of Medicine in 1993, before moving on in 1997 to an ophthalmology residency at the University of Pittsburgh's School Of Medicine and a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at Tufts University's New England Eye Center in 1999. Dr. Ip became a faculty member of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1999, where he is currently co-director of the Fundus Photograph Reading Center within the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. He has been involved with numerous clinical trials and is the principal investigator of the Standard Care vs. Corticosteroid for Retinal Vein Occlusion (SCORE) Study.