Research Team
Cathy Sun, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sun is a glaucoma specialist and clinician-scientist whose research focuses on big data and pragmatic clinical trials to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and other ocular conditions. Her interests involve utilizing electronic health records and natural language processing to study clinical outcomes, building and implementing clinical decision support software, and prediction modeling of ocular diseases.
Ivan Copado, MPH
Medical Student Researcher, UCSD
Ivan is currently engaged in research focused on diabetic retinopathy utilizing electronic health record data, analyzing the impact of social determinants of health on ocular disease progression, and assessing vision and eye care healthcare utilization among vulnerable populations.
Sean Yonanime, MPH
Post-baccalaureate Scholar
Former Research Analyst
Sean Yonamine is interested in leveraging natural language processing and machine learning methods on electronic medical record data to enhance ocular disease detection.
Vivian Qin, MD
Glaucoma Fellow, UCSF
Vivian is interested in using electronic health record data to understand the rates of infection following tonometry measurement in clinic and the risk factors for acute angle closure attacks in the US.
Evan Chen, MD
Resident, UCSF
Evan Chen is currently an ophthalmology resident at UCSF. He is passionate about big data analysis and his previous work has focused on improving healthcare delivery using insights from claims databases. He is specifically interested in identifying changing practice patterns in glaucoma management over time.
Iris Kim, BA
Research Data Analyst
Iris is interested in using electronic health record data to understand and research diabetic retinopathy and other ocular diseases.
Lab Alumni:
Yian Guo, MS – Data Scientist, Sutter Health
Frank Ma, MD, PhD – Surgical Retina Fellow, University of Illinois Chicago