Posts by Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH
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Younger Age, Albuminuria Linked to Advanced Diabetic Retinopathy in South India
Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, and her co-principal investigators conducted a large population-based study in South India and found that younger age, male sex, longer duration of diabetes, higher hemoglobin A1c, and albuminuria are key non-genetic risk factors for proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic macular edema.
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Female Hormonal Therapy Makes Only Small Contribution to Risk of Noninfectious Uveitis
In the first study of its kind, Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, and John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS, of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Mass General Hospital Department of Ophthalmology, and colleagues found a low risk of noninfectious uveitis among women using hormonal contraceptives or menopausal hormone replacement therapy.
Biography
Dr. Lucia Sobrin is a full-time clinician scientist with Mass Eye and Ear's Retina and Uveitis Services. She has unique expertise diagnosing and treating rare and complicated eye disorders that affect the middle (uvea) and back (retina) portions of the eye. She has a specific clinical interest in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune retinopathy and cancer-associated retinopathy. She also serves as Director of the Morse Laser Center.
After obtaining her medical degree from the University Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Sobrin completed her ophthalmology residency training at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. She then completed a medical and surgical retina fellowship at Mass. Eye and Ear followed by a uveitis and ocular immunology fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institute. In 2006, she became one of the Department's first Harvard Vision Clinical Scientist Research Program (K12) recipients and later received her Master of Public Health Degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Sobrin shares her in-depth knowledge of rare and complex cases with uveitis and retina fellows as well as ophthalmology residents. She also co-directs Mass Eye and Ear's Uveitis Fellowship Program.
Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General Ophthalmology
An international center for ophthalmology treatment and research, Mass Eye and Ear/Massachusetts General Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Ophthalmology, and is consistently recognized as one of the nation’s top hospitals for eye care. Led by Chief and Chair Joan W. Miller, MD, the department provides seamless access to the most innovative care available anywhere in the world.
