CatherineCukrasMD

Ophthalmology • Bethesda, MD

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Office
10c438 Building 10
10 Center Drive, Nih
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone+1 301-435-5061
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Summary

Dr. Catherine Cukras, MD is a board certified ophthalmologist in Bethesda, Maryland. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania.

Education & Training

University of Pennsylvania Health System/Scheie Eye InstituteResidency, Ophthalmology, 2004 - 2007
Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health SystemInternship, Transitional Year, 2003 - 2004
Washington University in St. Louis School of MedicineClass of 2003

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 2003 - 2024
American Board of Ophthalmology Ophthalmology

Clinical Trials

Study of Oral Minocycline in Treating Bilateral Cystoid Macular Edema Associated With Retinitis Pigmentosa Start of enrollment: 2014 May 01
Completed
Phase 1, Phase 2
Vitamin A Palmitate Supplementation in People With Age-Related Macular Degeneration (and Without Reticular Pseudodrusen) and Delayed Dark Adaptation Start of enrollment: 2018 Apr 20
Active, not recruiting
Early Phase 1
Vitamin A Palmitate Supplementation in Patients With Reticular Pseudodrusen (RPD) and Delayed Dark Adaptation Start of enrollment: 2018 May 14
Recruiting
Early Phase 1

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Phase 2 Trial Evaluating Minocycline for Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.
Tiarnan D L Keenan, Clare Bailey, Maria Abraham, Christine Orndahl, Supriya Menezes, Sunil Bellur, Thilaka Arunachalam, Cathy Kangale-Whitney, Sowmya Srinivas, Ayesha ...> ;JAMA Ophthalmology. 2024 Mar 14
Outer retinal microcavitations in Retinitis Pigmentosa: a novel OCT finding common in RP1-related retinopathy.
Ioannis S Dimopoulos, Laryssa A Huryn, Robert B Hufnagel, Ehsan Ullah, Aime R Agather, Delphine Blain, Brian P Brooks, Catherine A Cukras, Wadih M Zein> ;Retina. 2024 Mar 12
Local and Global Associations of Reticular Pseudodrusen in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
Cameron Duic, Souvick Mukherjee, Kristina Pfau, Alisa Thavikulwat, Amitha Domalpally, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Emily Chew, Catherine Cukras> ;Ophthalmology. Retina. 2024 Jan 24
The qMini assay identifies an overlooked class of splice variants.
Bender, C., Pantrangi, M., Moore, N., Reeves, M., Naik, A., Li, H., Goetz, K., Blain, D., Zein, W., Brooks, B., Hufnagel, R., Guan, B., Agather, A., Cukras, C., Huryn, L.> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Nov 3
Critical Dependence on Area in Relationship between ARMS2/HTRA1 Genotype and Faster Geographic Atrophy Enlargement: Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 Report Number 33.
Elvira Agrón, Amitha Domalpally, Catherine A Cukras, Emily Y Chew, Tiarnan D L Keenan> ;Ophthalmology. 2024 Feb 1
1 citations
RPGR: Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Characterization With Findings Specific to the 3'-end of ORF15.
Matthew D Benson, Souvick Mukherjee, Aime R Agather, Delphine Blain, Denise Cunningham, Robert Mays, Xun Sun, Tiansen Li, Robert B Hufnagel, Brian P Brooks, Laryssa A ...> ;Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2023 Sep 1
LOW-DOSE SUPPLEMENTATION WITH RETINOL IMPROVES RETINAL FUNCTION IN EYES WITH AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION BUT WITHOUT RETICULAR PSEUDODRUSEN.
Kristina Pfau, Brett G Jeffrey, Catherine A Cukras> ;Retina. 2023 Sep 1
1 citations
Natural History of Visual Dysfunction in ABCA4 Retinopathy and Its Genetic Correlates.
Maximilian Pfau, Laryssa A Huryn, Marisa P Boyle, Catherine A Cukras, Wadih M Zein, Amy Turriff, Ehsan Ullah, Robert B Hufnagel, Brett G Jeffrey, Brian P Brooks> ;American Journal of Ophthalmology. 2023 Sep 1
1 citations
Oral minocycline for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa-associated cystoid macular edema: results of a phase I/II clinical trial.
Amisha D Dave, Katherine G Chen, Trent Tsun-Kang Chiang, Janani Singaravelu, Jason A Alvarez, Wai T Wong, Catherine A Cukras> ;Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Fur Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie. 2023 Aug 1
1 citations
Deep learning-enabled volumetric cone photoreceptor segmentation in adaptive optics optical coherence tomography images of normal and diseased eyes.
Somayyeh Soltanian-Zadeh, Zhuolin Liu, Yan Liu, Ayoub Lassoued, Catherine A Cukras, Donald T Miller, Daniel X Hammer, Sina Farsiu> ;Biomedical Optics Express. 2023 Feb 1
1 citations
Genotype-Phenotype Association in ABCA4-Associated Retinopathy.
Maximilian Pfau, Wadih M Zein, Laryssa A Huryn, Catherine A Cukras, Brett G Jeffrey, Robert B Hufnagel, Brian P Brooks> ;Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2023 Jan 1
10 citations
Reticular Pseudodrusen Status, ARMS2/HTRA1 Genotype, and Geographic Atrophy Enlargement: Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 Report 32.
Elvira Agrón, Amitha Domalpally, Catherine A Cukras, Traci E Clemons, Qingyu Chen, Anand Swaroop, Zhiyong Lu, Emily Y Chew, Tiarnan D L Keenan> ;Ophthalmology. 2023 May 1
1 citations
Investigations of Renal Function and Age-Related Macular Degeneration Phenotypes.
Amisha D Dave, Kristina Hess, Katherine G Chen, Henry Wiley, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Elvira Agrón, Emily Y Chew, Catherine A Cukras> ;Translational Vision Science & Technology. 2022 Dec 1
2 citations
Hyperreflective Foci in Age-Related Macular Degeneration are Associated with Disease Severity and Functional Impairment.
Cameron Duic, Kristina Pfau, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Henry Wiley, Alisa Thavikulwat, Emily Y Chew, Catherine Cukras> ;Ophthalmology. Retina. 2023 Apr 1
Assessment of Retinal Changes Following Intravitreal Aflibercept in 2 Patients With Von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Related Retinal Capillary Hemangioblastoma.
Eleni K Konstantinou, Shilpa Kodati, Henry E Wiley, Tiarnán D L Keenan, Catherine A Cukras, Richard H Johnston, Alisa T Thavikulwat> ;JAMA Ophthalmology. 2022 Dec 1
1 citations
Deep Learning-Based Modeling of the Dark Adaptation Curve for Robust Parameter Estimation.
Tharindu De Silva, Kristina Hess, Peyton Grisso, Alisa T Thavikulwat, Henry Wiley, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Emily Y Chew, Brett G Jeffrey, Catherine A Cukras> ;Translational Vision Science & Technology. 2022 Oct 3
2 citations
Structural integrity of retinal pigment epithelial cells in eyes with age-related scattered hypofluorescent spots on late phase indocyanine green angiography (ASHS-LIA).
Joanne Li, Nancy Aguilera, Tao Liu, Andrew J Bower, John P Giannini, Catherine Cukras, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Emily Chew, Brian P Brooks, Wadih M Zein, Laryssa A Huryn, R...> ;Eye. 2023 Feb 1
Longitudinal characterization and treatment response of retinal arterial macroaneurysms in adult-onset coats disease.
Amisha D Dave, Alisa T Thavikulwat, Tharindu De Silva, Henry E Wiley, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Wai T Wong, Catherine A Cukras> ;American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports. 2022 Sep 1
5 citations
Photoreceptor and Retinal Pigment Epithelium Relationships in Eyes With Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy Revealed by Multimodal Adaptive Optics Imaging.
Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Andrew J Bower, Joanne Li, Ehsan Ullah, Alfredo Dubra, Catherine Cukras, Brian P Brooks, Brett G Jeffrey, Robert B Hufnagel, Laryssa A Huryn, ...> ;Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2022 Jul 8
2 citations
Early-Onset TIMP3-Related Retinopathy Associated With Impaired Signal Peptide.
Bin Guan, Laryssa A Huryn, Andrew B Hughes, Zhiyu Li, Chelsea Bender, Delphine Blain, Amy Turriff, Catherine A Cukras, Robert B Hufnagel> ;JAMA Ophthalmology. 2022 Jul 1
2 citations
Artificial intelligence-based strategies to identify patient populations and advance analysis in age-related macular degeneration clinical trials.
Antonio Yaghy, Aaron Y Lee, Pearse A Keane, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Luisa S M Mendonca, Cecilia S Lee, Anne Marie Cairns, Joseph Carroll, Hao Chen, Julie Clark, Catherine ...> ;Experimental Eye Research. 2022 Jul 1
2 citations
Comparison of agents using higher dose anti-VEGF therapy for treatment-resistant neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Geoffrey K Broadhead, Tiarnan D L Keenan, Emily Y Chew, Henry E Wiley, Catherine A Cukras> ;Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Fur Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie. 2022 Jul 1
3 citations
Novel ophthalmic findings and deep phenotyping in Williams-Beuren syndrome.
Laryssa A Huryn, Taylor Flaherty, Rosalie Nolen, Lev Prasov, Wadih M Zein, Catherine A Cukras, Sharon Osgood, Neelam Raja, Mark D Levin, Susan Vitale, Brian P Brooks, ...> ;The British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2023 Oct 1
3 citations
Scotopic Contour Deformation Detection Reveals Early Rod Dysfunction in Age-Related Macular Degeneration With and Without Reticular Pseudodrusen.
Brett G Jeffrey, Oliver J Flynn, Laryssa A Huryn, Maximilian Pfau, Catherine A Cukras> ;Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2022 Jun 1
4 citations
Retinal layer segmentation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) using a 3D deep-convolutional regression network for patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Souvick Mukherjee, Tharindu De Silva, Peyton Grisso, Henry Wiley, D L Keenan Tiarnan, Alisa T Thavikulwat, Emily Chew, Catherine Cukras> ;Biomedical Optics Express. 2022 Jun 1
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Press Mentions

New Treatments for Macular Degeneration Are on the WayJune 8th, 2020
NIH Adds Eight Lasker Clinical Research ScholarsMarch 12th, 2019