SCENE + HEARD: Discover Haris Mirza Is Your Future ‘Baby Eye Doctor’ By Staff Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:30 PM Haris Mirza is a first-generation Pakistani-American who is a second-year optometry student at the Western University of Health Sciences. Born and raised in California, Mirza’s love for the field has been growing over the years and was only fueled during his undergraduate studies when he took cognitive psychology and philosophy classes and started to view our ability to see differently. “Optometry has been a fundamental part of my life for over one decade. It became evident to me that vision plays a vital role not only in how we see the world, but also how we perceive it. I found that there was a place for optometry in a way I had not seen before, in so many different fields of study. It was then I became hooked,” Mirza said. Read More.