Research Faculty

Robert Chang, MD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: OCT, high myopia and glaucoma, mobile imaging, telehealth, AI computer vision, patient experience, big data, medtech hackathons

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Diana Do, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Developing novel therapies for age related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, retinal vein occlusion, myopic degeneration, and other retinal vascular diseases through innovative clinical research in drug development and ocular imaging

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Alfredo Dubra, PhD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Optical engineering, advanced ocular imaging using adaptive optics in retinal and optic nerve disease

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Dubra Lab

Ann Caroline Fisher, MD

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Glaucoma clinical trials, global health, faculty career development, inclusion and diversity, wellness and well-being

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Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD

BLUMENKRANZ SMEAD PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Vision restoration in glaucoma and optic neuropathies, clinical trials in neuroprotection and neuroenhancement

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Goldberg Lab

Natalie Homer, MD

CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Orbital oncology, orbital and facial trauma, periorbital infections, eyelid and facial reconstruction, facial nerve palsy, pediatric orbital and adnexal disorders, nasolacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease, cosmetic and functional surgical outcomes, wound healing, and oculoplastic fellowship education

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Yang Hu, MD, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Discovery research in optic neuropathies including glaucoma, optic neuritis, new therapeutic approaches

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Michael S. Kapiloff, MD, PhD

PROFESSOR (RESEARCH) OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND, BY COURTESY, OF MEDICINE (CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE)

Research Area: Molecular and cellular signal transduction mechanisms in retina cells, gene therapy for vision restoration

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Kapiloff Lab

Scott R. Lambert, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND, BY COURTESY, OF PEDIATRICS

Research Area: Health services research using big data and clinical trials for pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus

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Theodore Leng, MD, FACS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Clinical trials, machine learning, deep learning, ocular imaging

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Leng Research Group

 

Y. Joyce Liao, MD, PhD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OF NEUROLOGY

Research Area: Basic and human subjects research in neuro-ophthalmology, ischemic optic neuropathy, eye movement disorders

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Eye Brain Lab
Eye Movement Lab

Charles Lin, MD

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Corneal transplantation, corneal infection, ocular inflammation

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Wendy W. Liu, MD, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Translational research on the role of mechanosensation in the eye using animal models and electrophysiology

Vinit B. Mahajan, MD, PhD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AT THE PALO ALTO VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Research Area: Basic and human subjects research in retinal and vitreous disease, uveitis, gene therapy for vision restoration

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Mahajan Lab

Edward Manche, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Refractive surgery, wavefront-guided technology, topography-guided technology, corneal inlays for presbyopia, advanced techniques for corneal cross linking

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The Stanford Eye Laser Center

Michael Marmor, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Clinical electrophysiologic tests for retina and optic nerve, retinal dystrophies and trials for potential therapy: nature and management of hydroxychloroquine toxicity in the retina, relationship of vision and eye disease to art, history of ophthalmology

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Darius Moshfeghi, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Retinopathy of prematurity, myopia, optical coherence tomography

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Heather E. Moss, MD, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OF NEUROLOGY

Research Area: Human subjects imaging research in neuro-ophthalmology, idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, MHS

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Innovative imaging of ocular tumors and retinal diseases, genetics of ocular melanoma, improving techniques in retinal surgery, population based research to guide practice patterns in ophthalmology

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David Myung, MD, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, AND, BY COURTESY, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Research Area: Ophthalmic innovation, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, corneal and ocular surface wound healing, mobile health, telemedicine, and global health

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Ophthalmic Innovation Program

Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSC

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Innovative, first-in-human clinical trials of pharmacotherapy and advanced ocular imaging technology for retinal vascular disorders, and uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases

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Daniel Palanker, PhD

DIRECTOR OF HEPL, PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND, BY COURTESY, OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Research Area: Laser tissue interactions, ophthalmic laser therapy and surgery, neuroprotection, restoration of sight in retinal degeneration by electronic retinal prosthesis and by cell transplantation

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Suzann Pershing, MD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Health services research, outcomes analysis, health policy, big data, learning health systems, risk adjustment and clinical predictive analytics

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Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Vision development, accommodation, eye movements, amblyopia, and strabismus

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Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer, MD

CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Randomized clinical trials on corneal transplantation or corneal infection

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Yasir Sepah, MBBS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Precision health, biomarker discovery, decentralized clinical trials, drug repositioning and biodesign

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Gayathri Srinivasan OD, MS

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Amblyopia, strabismus, post concussive vision disorders, and vision rehabilitation

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Yang Sun, MD, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Basic and clinical glaucoma research including ciliated cell biology, glaucoma syndromes in children and adults

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Christopher Ta, MD

PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Endophthalmitis, tear film disorders and cornea research

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Sui Wang, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Retinal genomics and diabetic retinal disease, gene network biology

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Albert Y. Wu, MD, PhD, FACS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Research Area: Stem cells for ocular regeneration, transplantable eye tissue creation, eye rejuvenation, gene editing to cure eye disease, modeling eye and orbital tumors, ocular scarring

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