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Robert Chang

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Contact Information

  • Clinical Offices
    Byers Eye Institute at Stanford 2452 Watson Court MC 5353 Palo Alto, CA 94303
    Tel Work (650) 723-6995 Fax (650) 725-6619
    Byers Eye Institute at Stanford 2452 Watson Court MC 5353 Palo Alto, CA 94303
    Tel Work (650) 723-6995 Fax (650) 725-6619
    Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
  • Academic Offices
    Personal Information
    Tel (650) 724-3734
    Alternate Contact
    Theresa Menzies Administrative Associate Tel Work 650-725-5743
    Not for medical emergencies or patient use

Professional Overview

Clinical Focus

  • Ophthalmology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Glaucoma and cataract surgery
  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • medical advising
  • Glaucoma Drainage Implants
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Honors and Awards

  • Heed Fellow, Heed Foundation (2007)

Professional Education

Fellowship: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute FL (2009)
Residency: Washington University in St. Louis MO (2007)
Internship: Northshore University Health System IL (2004)
Medical Education: University of Missouri MO (2002)
Board Certification: Ophthalmology, American Board of Ophthalmology (2008)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

Community and International Work

Scientific Focus

Current Research Interests

1) Biodesign and BioX educator
I am a perpetual student and educator of the biodesign process for innovation with focus on large-market, low-cost, consumer-focused devices and ideas in the medical and education space
--medtech, improving physician communication through tele-ophthalmology
--sensors for mhealth mobile devices and quantified self
--social entrepreneurship and cost-effective eye care screening
--crowd sourcing, cloud computing, data analytics, education via gamification, distribution channels
--ophthopedia.org, upside down classroom, Khan Academy style medical education
--international travel and last but not least, known for restaurant recommendations
2) working on Iphone Adaptor and HIPAA secure messaging (collaboration with Medigram) to improve physician-to-physician communication for remote triage
3) improving ophthopedia.org to standardize teaching of optic disc photo interpretation

Selected Past Research Projects
3) Young Chinese Myopes with Minimally Progressive Field Defects
4) Determining Optic Nerve Head Anatomical Correlates in Chinese and Caucasian Myopes With and Without Visual Field Defects Using SD OCT
5) Examining the Differences in Corneal Biomechanical Properties in Patients with Glaucoma and Myopia Using the Oculus Corvis ST
6) Effectiveness of Low Vision Referrals: An Assessment of Patient Quality of Life and Physician Perceptions of Low Vision Services at Aravind Eye Hospital
7) Employing Gaze-Tracking Analysis to Determine How Subjects Gather Visual Information During Field Testing
8) Peristat Online Visual Field Screening for Glaucoma
9) Dietary, Supplemental and Total Intake of Select Nutrients with Risk of Glaucoma in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)
10) Retrospective Review of Optic Disc Morphology from RetCam Photos Acquired in Premature Infant
11) Cirrus SD OCT – Ganglion Cell Normative Database Collection

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