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Office
750 Republican St
Seattle, WA 98109Phone+1 206-520-8300- Is this information wrong?
Education & Training
- University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical CenterResidency, Ophthalmology, 2004 - 2007
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityInternship, Internal Medicine, 2003 - 2004
- Yale School of MedicineClass of 2003
Certifications & Licensure
- WA State Medical License 2009 - 2025
- CA State Medical License 2004 - 2025
- American Board of Ophthalmology Ophthalmology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FAAO) American Academy of Ophthalmology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Metabolic phenotyping of healthy and diseased human RPE cells.Saira Rizwan, Beverly Toothman, Bo Li, Abbi J Engel, Rayne R Lim, Jinyu Lu, Jianhai Du, Jennifer R Chao> ;Biorxiv. 2024 Mar 1
- Proline provides a nitrogen source in the retinal pigment epithelium to synthesize and export amino acids for the neural retina.Siyan Zhu, Rong Xu, Abbi L Engel, Yekai Wang, Rachel McNeel, James B Hurley, Jennifer R Chao, Jianhai Du> ;The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2023 Nov 1
- 1 citationsFamilial co-segregation and the emerging role of long-read sequencing to re-classify variants of uncertain significance in inherited retinal diseases.Pankhuri Gupta, Kenji Nakamichi, Alyssa C Bonnell, Ryan Yanagihara, Nick Radulovich, Fuki M Hisama, Jennifer R Chao, Debarshi Mustafi> ;NPJ Genomic Medicine. 2023 Aug 10
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Press Mentions
- This Family Is Slowly Going Blind. A UW Doctor Is Searching for a CureMay 9th, 2019
Professional Memberships
- Fellow
Hospital Affiliations
- UW Medicine/University of Washington Medical CenterSeattle, Washington
- UW Medicine/Northwest Hospital & Medical CenterSeattle, Washington
- UW Medicine/Harborview Medical CenterSeattle, Washington
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