April Newsletter from the USC Roski Eye Institute

April 2021 Newsletter

Feature Story

The USC Roski Eye Institute will be represented by faculty, residents, medical students, researchers and more at ARVO 2021. Topics branch across all sub-specialties of Ophthalmology. Learn more about the presentations below:

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FACULTY AWARDS

Ten USC Roski Eye Institute faculty were named L.A.'s Top Doctors 2021 by Los Angeles Magazine:

Mark Borchert, MD
Michael Burnstine, MD
Jessica Chang, MD
Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD
J. Martin Heur, MD, PhD
Linda Lam, MD, MBA
Narsing Rao, MD
Brian Toy, MD
Sandy Zhang-Nunes, MD

Jesse Berry, MD, received a 2021 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students.

The award "recognizes exceptional individuals who go above and beyond what is expected, fostering an engaging, supportive, and inclusive academic

environment through their mentorship of colleagues, graduate and undergraduate students."

Awards and Grants

Biju Thomas, PhD, received a five-year NIH/NEI R01 Grant

Project Title: Integration and functionality of retinal organoid transplants

Start Date: May 1, 2021

David Cobrinik, MD, PhD, received a grant from the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Project Title: Core Facilities Voucher Program Award

Faculty Publications

Since April 1, 2021 our faculty have published 60 papers. Eligible publications included those that were e-published in March:

Faculty Publications:

1. Isaac Asante, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Genomic and Phenotypic Diversity of Cultivated and Wild Tomatoes with Varying Levels of Heat Tolerance” in Genes.

2. Jesse Berry, MD, co-authored the paper, “Response criteria for intraocular retinoblastoma: RB-RECIST” in Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

3. Mark Borchert, MD, co-authored the paper, “Repeated measurements of ERGs and VEPs using chloral hydrate sedation and propofol anesthesia in young children” in Documenta Ophthalmologica.

4. Angela Buffenn, MD, MPH, co-authored the paper, “The Impact of Strabismus on Psychosocial Heath and Quality of Life: A Systematic Review” in Survey of Ophthalmology.

5. Jessica Chang, MD, co-authored the paper, “Aspiration as a Novel Technique to Address Facial and Periocular Myiasis” in Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

6. Gloria Chiu, MD, co-authored the paper, “Microbiological Evaluation of Opened Saline Bottles for Scleral Lens Use and Hygiene Habits of Scleral Lens Patients” in Optometry and Vision Science.

7. Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Electronic retinal prosthesis for severe loss of vision in geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration: First-in-human use” in the European Journal of Ophthalmology.

8. Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Clinical correlation recommended: accuracy of clinician versus radiologic interpretation of the imaging of orbital lesions” in Orbit.

9. Shinwu Jeong, PhD; Cheryl Craft, PhD; and Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Assessment of inner retinal oxygen metrics and thickness in a mouse model of inherited retinal degeneration” in Experimental Eye Research.

10. Jonathan Kim, MD; David Cobrinik, MD, PhD; and Jesse Berry, MD, co-authored the paper, “Establishing the Clinical Utility of ctDNA Analysis for Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Monitoring of Retinoblastoma: The Aqueous Humor Liquid Biopsy” in Cancers.

11. Gianluca Lazzi, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Model-based comparison of current flow in rod bipolar cells of healthy and early-stage degenerated retina” in Experimental Eye Research.

12. Juan Carlos Martinez-Camarillo, MD; Biju Thomas, PhD; and Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Xeno-free cryopreservation of adherent retinal pigmented epithelium yields viable and functional cells in vitro and in vivo” in Scientific Reports.

13. Thomas Lee, MD, co-authored the paper, “Perifoveal Chorioretinal Atrophy following Subretinal Voretigene Neparvovec-rzyl for RPE65-mediated Leber Congenital Amaurosis” in Ophthalmology Retina.

14. Thomas Lee, MD, and Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Endoscopic vitreoretinal surgery: Review of current applications and future trends” in Survey of Ophthalmology.

15. Narsing Rao, MD, co-authored the paper, “Classification Criteria for Punctate Inner Choroiditis” in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

16. Narsing Rao, MD, co-authored the paper, “Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group, 2021. Classification criteria for serpiginous choroiditis” in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

17. Narsing Rao, MD, co-authored the paper, “Classification Criteria for Sympathetic Ophthalmia” in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

18. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “The consequences of incomplete covering of the critical part of the aortic root in Personalized External Aortic Root Support” in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.

19. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “The clinical utility of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in traumatic brain injury: recommendations from the ENIGMA MRS working group” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

20. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Challenges and opportunities for neuroimaging in young patients with traumatic brain injury: a coordinated effort towards advancing discovery from the ENIGMA pediatric moderate/severe TBI group” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

21. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Coordinating Global Multi-Site Studies of Military-Relevant Traumatic Brain Injury: Opportunities, Challenges, and Harmonization Guidelines” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

22. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Predicting future cognitive decline with hyperbolic stochastic coding” in Medical Image Analysis.

23. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Multi-Resemblance Multi-Target Low-Rank Coding for Prediction of Cognitive Decline with Longitudinal Brain Images” in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

24. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “The ENIGMA sports injury working group:- an international collaboration to further our understanding of sport-related brain injury” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

25. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “The role of maternal BMI on brain food cue reactivity in children: a preliminary study” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

26. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Associations Between Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus In Utero and Daily Energy Intake, Brain Responses to Food Cues, and Adiposity in Children” in Diabetes Care.

27. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Neuroimaging Advances in Diagnosis and Differentiation of HIV, Comorbidities, and Aging in the cART Era” in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences.

28. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

29. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “White matter microstructure and its relation to clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA OCD Working Group” in Translational Psychiatry.

30. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Analysis of structural brain asymmetries in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 39 datasets” in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

31. Paul Thompson, PhD, co-authored the paper, “ENIGMA-CNV working group, 2021. 1q21.1 distal copy number variants are associated with cerebral and cognitive alterations in humans” in Translational Psychiatry.

32. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Neuroimaging PheWAS (Phenome-Wide Association Study): A Free Cloud-Computing Platform for Big-Data, Brain-Wide Imaging Association Studies” in Neuroinformatics.

33. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Latent Profile Analysis of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Cognitive Function of Adults 2 Weeks After Traumatic Brain Injury: Findings From the TRACK-TBI Study” in JAMA Network Open.

34. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Frontoinsular cortical microstructure is linked to life satisfaction in young adulthood” in Brain Imaging and Behavior.

35. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Tractography Processing with the Sparse Closest Point Transform” in Neuroinformatics.

36. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Retrospective motion artifact correction of structural MRI images using deep learning improves the quality of cortical surface reconstructions” in Neuroimage.

37. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Association of Sex and Age With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Symptoms: A TRACK-TBI Study” in JAMA Network Open.

38. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Robust Cortical Thickness Morphometry of Neonatal Brain and Systematic Evaluation Using Multi-Site MRI Datasets” in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

39. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Selective morphological and volumetric alterations in the hippocampus of children exposed in utero to gestational diabetes mellitus” in Human Brain Mapping.

40. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and the ADNI Depression Project, 2021. Late-Life Depression Is Associated With Reduced Cortical Amyloid Burden: Findings From the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Depression Project” in Biological Psychiatry.

41. Arthur Toga, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Plasma Neurofilament Light for Prediction of Disease Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration” in Neurology.

42. Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Differences in Ocular Biometric Measurements among Subtypes of Primary Angle Closure Disease: The Chinese American Eye Study” in Ophthalmology Glaucoma.

43. Sandy Zhang-Nunes, MD, co-authored the paper, “Thyroid eye disease with choroidal folds” in Orbit.

44. Sandy Zhang-Nunes, MD, co-authored the paper, “Response of twelve different hyaluronic acid gels to varying doses of recombinant human hyaluronidase” in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery.

45. Sandy Zhang-Nunes, MD, co-authored the paper, “Prospective in vivo evaluation of three different hyaluronic acid gels to varying doses of hyaluronidase with long-term follow-up” in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery.

46. Qifa Zhou, PhD, co-authored the paper, “2-D Ultrasonic Array-Based Optical Coherence Elastography” in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

Affiliate Faculty Publications:

1. Cheng-Ming Chuong, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Making region-specific integumentary organs in birds: evolution and modifications” in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.

2. Cheng-Ming Chuong, PhD, co-authored the paper, “The feather pattern autosomal barring in chicken is strongly associated with segregation at the MC1R locus” in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research.

3. Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Publisher Correction: Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction” in Nature Genetics.

4. Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Trends in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Incidence in the United States by Race/Ethnicity From 2000 to 2016” in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

5. Young-Kwon Hong, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Serial intravital imaging captures dynamic and functional endothelial remodeling with single-cell resolution” in JCI Insight.

6. John Ringman, MD, MS, co-authored the paper, “Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, 2021. Longitudinal Accumulation of Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease” in Neurology.

7. John Ringman, MD, MS, co-authored the paper, “. MarkVCID cerebral small vessel consortium: I. Enrollment, clinical, fluid protocols” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia Journal.

8. John Ringman, MD, MS; and Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Cerebroarterial pulsatility and resistivity indices are associated with cognitive impairment and white matter hyperintensity in elderly subjects: A phase-contrast MRI study” in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.

9. Huizhong Tao, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Medial preoptic area antagonistically mediates stress-induced anxiety and parental behavior” in Nature Neuroscience.

10. Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Assessment of carotid stiffness by measuring carotid pulse wave velocity using a single-slice oblique-sagittal phase-contrast MRI” in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

11. Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Semiautomatic cerebrovascular territory mapping based on dynamic ASL MR angiography without vessel-encoded labeling” in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

12. Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “MarkVCID cerebral small vessel consortium: II. Neuroimaging protocols” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia Journal.

13. Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Cerebral perfusion is associated with blast exposure in military personnel without moderate or severe TBI” in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.

14. Danny J.J. Wang, PhD, co-authored the paper, “Optimization of adiabatic pulses for pulsed arterial spin labeling at 7 tesla: Comparison with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling” in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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