Our Team
Ophthalmology Faculty
Joyce Liao, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and of Neurology
Director of Stanford Center for Optic Disc Drusen
Research Focus: Understanding and treatment of human conditions that lead to retinal ganglion cell loss and irreversible thinning of the optic nerve, the only connection between the eye and the brain
Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD
Blumenkranz Smead Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: Neuroprotection and regeneration of retinal ganglion cells and the optic nerve, a major unmet need in glaucoma and other optic neuropathies, and his laboratory is developing novel stem cell and nanotherapeutics approaches for eye repair
Shannon Beres, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Pediatric; Machine learning to differentiate papilledema from pseudopapilledema
Diana Do, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: Retinal vascular diseases and ocular inflammation
Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: The Mahajan lab works to identify molecular genetic biomarkers of optic disc drusen and translate these findings into the development of gene and small-molecule therapies.
Heather Moss, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and of Neurology
Research Focus: Optic nerve biomechanics, ERG, pupillometry
Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSc
Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: Novel therapies and innovative assessment and diagnostic imaging technologies for retinal vascular and ocular inflammatory disorders, specifically diabetic retinopathy (DR), age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and uveitis
Tawna Roberts, OD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: Vision development in infants and young children as well as binocular vision disorders in adolescents and adults with concussions; prevention of strabismus, amblyopia, and binocular vision disorders
Albert Y. Wu, MD, PhD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Focus: Mitochondrial dysfunction in skin-derived fibroblasts of patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and optic disc drusen
Other Stanford Faculty
Justin Gardner, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: We use a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling and analysis, and psychophysical measurements to link human perception to cortical brain activity.
Aaron Gitler, PhD
Basic Science Professor of Genetics
Research Focus: We use the baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as a model system to study the cell biology underpinning protein-misfolding diseases like Parkinson's disease and ALS.
Anthony Norcia, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Research Focus: Visual function assessment with EEG-based methods
Yasir Sepah, MBBS
Senior Research Scientist
Research Focus: Retina and uveitis
Brian Wandell, PhD
Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor, and Professor by Courtesy of Electrical Engineering, of Ophthalmology, and at the Graduate School of Education
Research Focus: Analysis of MRI and OCT data; computational modeling of the human eye and retina
