Welcome to the Sun Lab!

Our lab is focused on leveraging large-scale clinical data to transform how we diagnosis and treat ocular conditions, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. We are harnessing the power of “real-world” data from electronic health records, healthcare claims data, and medical imaging data to improve predictions of diagnosis detection and disease progression in ophthalmology. Through rule-based algorithms and natural language processing, we are more effectively and efficiently harnessing the vast wealth of information in clinical notes. We are interested in prospectively studying patients in a real-world setting using innovative electronic health record-based methods, including registry-based randomized controlled trials.
 
We work collaboratively with other clinician-scientists, biostatisticians and epidemiologists, analysts, and coordinators at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, an Organized Research Unit at UCSF with the goal of preventing blindness worldwide.
 
Thank you for visiting our website. We encourage you to explore our ongoing projects and latest publications. Feel free to reach out if you share our passion for cutting-edge ophthalmology and informatics research and wish to collaborate or contribute to our mission.