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
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
Alfredo Dubra, PhD
PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Optical engineering, advanced ocular imaging using adaptive optics in retinal and optic nerve disease
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
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
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
Yang Hu, MD, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Discovery research in optic neuropathies including glaucoma, optic neuritis, new therapeutic approaches
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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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
Theodore Leng, MD, FACS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Clinical trials, machine learning, deep learning, ocular imaging
Clinical Trials
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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
Charles Lin, MD
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Corneal transplantation, corneal infection, ocular inflammation
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
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
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
Darius Moshfeghi, MD
PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Retinopathy of prematurity, myopia, optical coherence tomography
Heather E. Moss, MD, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OF NEUROLOGY
Research Area: Human subjects imaging research in neuro-ophthalmology, idiopathic intracranial hypertension
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
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
Clinical Trials
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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
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
Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Vision development, accommodation, eye movements, amblyopia, and strabismus
Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer, MD
CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Randomized clinical trials on corneal transplantation or corneal infection
Yasir Sepah, MBBS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Precision health, biomarker discovery, decentralized clinical trials, drug repositioning and biodesign
Gayathri Srinivasan OD, MS
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Amblyopia, strabismus, post concussive vision disorders, and vision rehabilitation
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
Christopher Ta, MD
PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Endophthalmitis, tear film disorders and cornea research
Sui Wang, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Research Area: Retinal genomics and diabetic retinal disease, gene network biology
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