Stephen T Armenti, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Medical Director, Scheie Eye Institute
Penn Medicine
Department: Ophthalmology
Contact information
Scheie Eye Institute
Penn Medicine
51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Penn Medicine
51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2156629753
Education:
AB (Molecular Biology)
Princeton University, 2007.
MD PhD (Cell Biology)
New York University MD PhD, 2015.
Permanent linkAB (Molecular Biology)
Princeton University, 2007.
MD PhD (Cell Biology)
New York University MD PhD, 2015.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Routine and complex cataract surgerySecondary intraocular lens surgery
Corneal surgery including DMEK, DSAEK, PKP and DALK
Ocular surface disease and surgery
Comprehensive Ophthalmology
Selected Publications
Alan Y Huang, Nitya Rao, and Stephen T Armenti: Dropless Cataract Surgery: A Review of the Literature. Int Ophthalmol Clin Apr 2025.Shapiro JN, Armenti ST, Levine H, Hood CT, Mian SI.: Dexamethasone Intracanalicular Insert versus Standard Topical Steroids for the Prophylaxis of Inflammation after Cataract Surgery. Am J Ophthalmol Dec 2024.
Taylor J Linaburg, Qi N Cui, Stephen Armenti: Evaluation and Management of post-operative complications following cataract extraction and intraocular lens placement. Adv Ophthalmol Optom Aug 2024.
Jennifer M Enright, Boonkit Purt, Brent Bruck, Parth Shah, Emily Eton, Sina Rezaei, Stephen Armenti, Kishan G Patel, James Liu, Angela Verkade, Abdualrahman Hamad, Thomas J Wubben, Arsham Sheybani, David Crandall, Bradford L Tannen, Grant M Comer, Shahzad Mian, and Nambi Nallasamy: Severe Spontaneous Tilt of Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lenses. Am J Ophthalmology Jun 2024.
Angela S Gupta, Michael E Sulewski, and Stephen T Armenti: Performance of ChatGPT in cataract surgery counseling. J Cataract Refract Surg Apr 2024.
Jasmine Y. Serpen, William Presley, Adelyn Beil, Stephen T. Armenti, Kayla Johnson, Shahzad I. Mian, Jeffrey W. Innis and Lev Prasov: A Novel 13q12 Microdeletion Associated with Familial Syndromic Corneal Opacification. Genes 14(5), May 2023.
Nicholas Matton, Adel Qalieh, Yibing Zhang, Anvesh Annadanam, Alexa Thibodeau, Tingyang Li, Anand Shankar, Stephen Armenti, Shahzad I Mian, Bradford Tannen, Nambi Nallasamy: Analysis of Cataract Surgery Instrument Identification Performance of Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network Ensembles Leveraging BigCat. Transl Vis Sci Technol 11(4), Apr 2022.
Armenti ST, Ballouz D, Mian SI.: Updated safety precautions and guidance on eye banking procedures during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 32: 338-342, Jul 2021.
Serpen JY, Armenti ST, Prasov L.: Immunogenetics of the Ocular Anterior Segment: Lessons from Inherited Disorders. J Ophthalmol 2021: 6691291, Jun 2021.
Durrani AF, Zhao PY, Zhou Y, Huvard M, Azzouz L, Keil JM, Armenti ST, Dedania VS, Musch DC, Zacks DN.: Risk Factors for Endophthalmitis Following Open Globe Injuries: A 17-Year Analysis. Clin Ophthalmol 15: 2077-2087, May 2021.