Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Assistant Professor in Immunology
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Education and Training
- University of Florida, M.S. 2002
- University of Florida, Ph.D. 2005
- Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow, Schepens Eye Research Instittute
- Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Immunology, Schepens Eye Research Institute
- Harvard Medical School, Instructor, Ophthalmology
Selected Grants and Awards
- Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution
- Regulation of inflammation and lipid homeostasis by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in age-related macular degeneration
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Contribute to Ocular Surface Disease during Severe Allergic Inflammation
- Immunophenotyping the effect of Xiidra treatment in the inflammatory dry eye disease setting with underlying meibomian gland dysfunction
- Innate immunity, lipoproteins and AMD progression
- LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy
- Monocytes in Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Role of bona fide microglia in retinal degeneration
- RPB: 2014 Nelson Trust Award
- Basic Immunology Training Program
- Evaluation of the effects of topically administered IL-17 antagonist compound on ocular allergy parameters in the severe allergic eye disease (AED) mouse model
- Macrophages and Treatment-Resistant NVAMD
- Conjunctival Goblet Cell Mucin Secretion in Inflammation and its Resolution
- Novel Small Molecule Macrophage Inhibitors for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases
- The role of a macrophage chemotactic factor in AMD
- Examining the role of IFN-g+IL-17+ pathogenic Th17 cells in severe ocular allergy
- LXR as a novel therapeutic target in diabetic retinopathy
- Macrophages Drive Neovascular Remodeling in NVAMD
- Bone marrow neuropathy drives diabetic retinopathy
- Neuroinflammation: the role of lymphocytes in glaucoma
- Molecular Mechanisms of Corneal Recurrent Erosion Formation