Picture of Dr. Chen   Philip P. Chen, MD
  Associate Professor

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EDUCATION
1986 BS with Honors & Distinction, Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
1991 MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
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.

FACULTY POSITIONS HELD
1996-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle
2001-date Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle

HOSPITAL POSITIONS HELD
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.

HONORS AND AWARDS
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

2003 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology

BOARD CERTIFICATION
1992 Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners
1997 Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology

CURRENT LICENSURE
Washington (1996-date)
California (1992-date)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
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.

SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS

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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