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Philip P. Chen, MD Associate Professor Office phone:
(206) 543-3884 FAX: (206) 543-4414 To schedule patient appointments:
University of Washington Eye Center (206) 598-4011 VA Puget Sound Health Care System (206) 764-2020 Visit My Practice Online |
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EDUCATION |
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| 1986 | BS
with Honors & Distinction, Biological Sciences, Stanford University,
Stanford, Calif. |
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| 1991 | MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. | ||
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POSTGRADUATE TRAINING |
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| 1991-1992 | Internship, St Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, New York, N.Y. | ||
| 1992-1995 | Ophthalmology Residency, Los Angeles County--USC Medical Center/Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, Calif. | ||
| 1995-1996 | Glaucoma Fellowship, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Fla. | ||
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FACULTY POSITIONS HELD |
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| 1996-2001 | Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle | ||
| 2001-date | Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle | ||
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HOSPITAL POSITIONS HELD |
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| 1996-date | Active Medical Staff, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle | ||
| 1996-date | Medical Staff, Veterans' Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Wash. | ||
| 1996-date | Associate Staff, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. | ||
| 1996-date | Active Status, Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. | ||
| 2001-date | Chief of Ophthalmology, University of Washington Eye Center, Seattle, Wash. | ||
| 2002-2004 | Residency Program Director, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle. | ||
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HONORS AND AWARDS |
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| 1982 | National Merit Scholarship, Phelps-Dodge Corporation | ||
| 1986 | Departmental Honors, Departmental Distinction (top 10% of class), Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. | ||
| 1987 | Downs Committee on International Health Travel Fellowship, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. | ||
| 1987, 1989 | NIH Short-term Research Grants, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. | ||
| 1990 | Marguerite Rush Lerner Award, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. | ||
| 1990 | Farr Scholar, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. | ||
| 1991 | International Health Prize, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Conn. | ||
| 1999 | ARVO/NEI Travel Fellowship | ||
| 2001 | Attending of the Year Award, for resident teaching, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle |
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| 2003 | Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology | ||
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BOARD CERTIFICATION |
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| 1992 | Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners | ||
| 1997 | Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology | ||
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CURRENT LICENSURE |
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| Washington
(1996-date) California (1992-date) |
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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS |
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American Academy of Ophthalmology
(AAO), 1996-date American Glaucoma Society, 2001-date Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1991-date King County Medical Society, Seattle, Wash., 1997-date Physicians for Society Responsibility, 1989 Washington Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons (1996-date) Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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Current research interests include diagnosis, treatment methods (medical
and surgical), and outcomes of treatment of open-angle and angle-closure
glaucoma, and anterior segment
surgery. |
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SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS |
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CHEN PP: Polymorphism of Ia antigens in a wild mouse population. Honors Thesis. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1986. CHEN PP, Conrad PA, ole-Moi Yoi OK, Brown WC, Dolan TT: DNA probes detect Theileria parva in salivary glands of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. Parasitol Res 1991;77:590-4. CHEN PP, Ariyasu RG, Kazu V, LaBree L, McDonnell PJ: A randomized trial of mitomycin C and conjunctival autograft after excision of primary pterygia. Am J Ophthalmol 1995;120:151-60. CHEN PP, Palmberg PF, Culbertson WW, Davis JL: Management of overfiltering and leaking blebs with autologous blood injection. Arch Ophthalmol 1996;114:633. CHEN PP, Chong LP: Coats’-like response in pars planitis. Br J Ophthalmol 1996;80:675-6. CHEN PP, Thompson JT: Risk factors for elevated intraocular pressure after vitreoretinal surgery. Ophthalmic Surg & Lasers 1997;28:37-42. CHEN PP, Yamamoto T, Sawada A, Parrish RK II, Kitzawa Y: Use of antifibrosis agents and glaucoma drainage devices in the American and Japanese Glaucoma Societies. J Glaucoma 1997; 6: 192 6. CHEN PP, Palmberg PF: Needling revision of glaucoma drainage device filtering blebs. Ophthalmology 1997;104:1004-10. CHEN PP, Weishaar PD, Murray TG: Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 1997;34:321-3. CHEN PP, Gedde SJ, Budenz DL, Parrish RK II: Outpatient treatment of bleb infection. Arch Ophthalmol 1997;115:1124-8. CHEN PP, Budenz DL: The effects of cataract extraction on the visual field of eyes with chronic open-angle glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol 1998;125:325-33. Xu L, CHEN PP, Chen YY, Takahashi Y, Wang L, Mills RP: Quantitative nerve fiber layer measurement using scanning laser polarimetry and modulation parameters in the detection of glaucoma. J Glaucoma 1998;7:270-7. CHEN PP, Kalina RE: Chronic angle-closure mimicking neovascular glaucoma in an adult with cicatricial retinopathy of prematurity. Arch Ophthalmol 1998;116:1248. CHEN PP, Basich FM, Khadem E: Trabeculectomy with longterm-stored mitomycin C in a West Indian population. Ophthalmologica 1998;212:404-6. CHEN PP, Weaver YK, Budenz DL, Feuer WJ, Parrish RK II: Trabeculectomy function after cataract extraction. Ophthalmology 1998;105:1928-35. Chen YY, CHEN PP, Xu L, Ernst PK, Wang L, Mills RP: Correlation of peripapillary nerve fiber layer thickness by scanning laser polarimetry with glaucoma-related visual field defects. J Glaucoma 1998;7:312-16. Yamada N, Emond MJ, Mills RP, Leen MM, CHEN PP, Stanford DC: Detection of optic disc changes with Glaucoma-Scope probability maps. J Glaucoma 1998;7:378-87. Leen MM, Takahashi Y, Li Y, Stewart JFG, CHEN PP, Mills RP: The mitotic effect of autologous blood injection and diode laser bleb revision on rabbit filtration blebs. Arch Ophthalmol 1999;117: 77-83. CHEN PP, Takahashi Y, Leen MM, Li Y, Bhandari A, Mills RP: The effects of compression sutures on filtering blebs in rabbit eyes. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 1999;30:216-20. Musch DC, Lichter PR, Guire KE, Standardi CL, and the CIGTS Study Group: The Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study: Study designs, methods, and baseline characteristics of enrolled patients. Ophthalmology 1999;106:653-62. Bhandari A, CHEN PP, Mills RP: Effects of contact lenses on scanning laser polarimetry of the peripapillary nerve fiber layer. Am J Ophthalmol 1999;127:722-4. Budenz DL, CHEN PP, Weaver YK: Conjunctival advancement for late-onset filtering bleb leaks: indications and outcomes. Arch Ophthalmol 1999;117:1014-19. Hu D, CHEN PP, Oda D: The effect of longterm-stored mitomycin C on human Tenon’s fibroblast proliferation. J Glaucoma 1999;8:302-5. Yamada N, CHEN PP, Mills RP, Leen MM, Lieberman MF, Stamper RL, Stanford DC: Screening for glaucoma with frequency-doubling technology and Damato campimetry. Arch Ophthalmol 1999;117:1479-84. CHEN PP, Rothman RF: [Comments with RF Rothman]: Management of late bleb leaks (by MR Wilson). J Glaucoma 1999;8:263-6. [Chen Comments, pp. 263-5] CHEN PP, Bhandari A: Fellow eye prognosis in patients with severe visual loss in one eye from chronic open angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2000;118:473-8. Yamada N, CHEN PP, Mills RP, Leen MM, Stamper RL, Lieberman MF, Xu L, Stanford DC: Glaucoma screening using the scanning laser polarimeter. J Glaucoma 2000;9:254-61. CHEN PP, Park RJ: Visual field progression in patients with initially unilateral visual field loss from chronic open angle glaucoma. Ophthalmology 2000;107:1688-92. Singh K, Mehta K, Shaikh NM, Tsai JC, Moster MR, Budenz DL, Greenfield DS, CHEN PP, Cohen JS, Baerveldt GS, Shaikh S, and the Primary Trabeculectomy Antimetabolite Study Group: Trabeculectomy with intraoperative mitomycin C versus 5-fluorouracil: prospective randomized clinical trial. Ophthalmology 2000;107:2305-9. Janz NK, Wren PA, Lichter PR, Musch DC, Billespie BW, Guire KE, and the CIGTS Group: Quality of life in newly diagnosed glaucoma patients. Ophthalmology 2001;108:887-98. Park RJ, CHEN PP, Karyampudi P, Mills RP, Harrison DA, Kim J: Effects of cataract extraction with intraocular lens placement on scanning laser polarimetry of the peripapillary nerve fiber layer. Am J Ophthalmol 2001;132:507-11. Lichter PR, Musch DC, Gillespie BW, Guire KE, Janz NK, Wren PA, Mills RP, and the CIGTS Study Group: Interim clinical outcomes in the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study comparing initial treatment randomized to medications or surgery. Ophthalmology 2001;108:1943-53. Janz NK, Wren PA, Lichter PR, Musch DC, Gillespie BW, Guire KE, Mills RP, and the CIGTS Study Group: The Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study: Interim quality of life findings after initial medical or surgical treatment of glaucoma. Ophthalmology 2001;108: 1954-65. Rhee DJ, Greenfield DS, CHEN PP, Schiffman J: Reproducibility of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements using scanning laser polarimetry in pseudophakic eyes. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 2002; 33:117-22. Shields JR, CHEN PP, Mills RP: Topographic mapping of glaucomatous visual field defects to scanning laser polarimetry of the peripapillary nerve fiber layer. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 2002; 33:123-6. Joson PJ, Kamantigue MEG, CHEN PP: Learning effects among perimetric novices in Frequency Doubling Technology perimetry. Ophthalmology 2002;109:757-60. CHEN PP: Correlation of visual field progression between eyes in patients with chronic open-angle glaucoma. Ophthalmology 2002;109;2093-9. Boehm MD, Nedrud C, Greenfield DS, CHEN PP: Scanning laser polarimetry and detection of progression after optic disc hemorrhage in patients with glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2003;121:189-94. CHEN PP: Blindness in patients with treated open angle glaucoma. Ophthalmology 2003;110:726-33. Park RJ, Mudumbai RC, CHEN PP. Intraocular pressure in patients with human immunodeficiency virus and treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy. Am J Ophthalmol 2003;136;360-1. Read RW, CHEN PP, Bhandari A, Mills RP, Cinciripini GS, Taylor CC. Intraocular pressure in a Somali population living in the United States. J Glaucoma 2003;12:365-9. Brush MB, CHEN PP. Learning effect among perimetric novices with C-20-1 screening frequency doubling technology perimetry. Am J Ophthalmol 2004;137:551-2. CHEN PP. Risk and risk factors for blindness from glaucoma. Curr Opin Ophthalmology 2004;15:107-11. Brush MB, CHEN PP. Test-retest variability in glaucoma patients tested with C-20-1 screening - mode Frequency Doubling Technology perimetry. J Glaucoma (in press). Kim JW, CHEN PP. Central corneal thickness and visual field progression in patients with open angle glaucoma. Ophthalmology (in press). | |||
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