Mark S. Blumenkranz
PROFESSOR
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
Mark S. Blumenkranz, M.D., MMS, is HJ Smead Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University. He received his Undergraduate, Master’s degree in Biochemical Pharmacology, and MD at Brown. He completed his surgical internship and ophthalmic residency training at Stanford and a fellowship in vitreoretinal diseases at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute .Dr. Blumenkranz has served on the Editorial Boards of The American Journal of Ophthalmology, Retina, Ophthalmology, and Graefe’s Archives for Ophthalmology. He is a past President of the American University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO), and a past President of the Retina Society and the Macula Society.
Research Interest
medical and surgical treatment of vitreal retinal diseases. These principally include age-related macular degeneration and other diseases of the macula, and tractional syndromes
Publications
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Callaway NF, Ludwig CA, Blumenkranz MS, Jones JM, Fredrick DR, Moshfeghi DM. Retinal and optic nerve hemorrhages in the newborn infant: one-year results of the newborn eye screen test study. Ophthalmology. 2016 May 31;123(5):1043-52.
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Jager RD, Mieler WF, Miller JW. Age-related macular degeneration. New England Journal of Medicine. 2008 Jun 12;358(24):2606-17.
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Rodrigues IA, Sprinkhuizen SM, Barthelmes D, Blumenkranz M, Cheung G, Haller J, Johnston R, Kim R, Klaver C, McKibbin M, Ngah NF. Defining a minimum set of standardized patient-centered outcome measures for macular degeneration. American journal of ophthalmology. 2016 Aug 31;168:1-2.
