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Victoria M. Addis, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
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Attending Ophthalmologist, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Attending Physician, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Attending Physician, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Residency Program Director , Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania (starting July 1, 2025)
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Department: Ophthalmology
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3c Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2003.
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61 Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
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24 52 Intern in Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 1b , 2010-2011.
24 7a Resident in Ophthalmology, Georgetown University, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, 2011-2014.
24 61 Visiting Resident, Agarwal Eye Hospital, Chennai, India, April 2014, 2014-2014.
24 6a Fellow in Glaucoma, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014-2015.
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28 38 American Board of Ophthalmology, 2016.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

f7 Dr. Addis cares for patients at the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of all stages of glaucoma using the latest medical, laser and surgical therapies available.
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Description of Other Expertise

b3 Dr. Addis serves as the Associate Program Director for the Department of Ophthalmology and Co-Director of the Measey Surgical Skills Center at the Widener Library.
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Description of Research Expertise

dd Dr. Addis's research interests include the diagnosis of early glaucoma, diagnostic techniques for the evaluation and monitoring of patients with glaucoma, and medical and surgical therapies for glaucoma.
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169 Dr. Addis is currently a sub-investigator on the 5-year Primary Open Angle African American Glaucoma Genetics (POAAGG) study with Dr. Joan O’Brien and the other glaucoma faculty. The goal of this is study is to identify the genetic risk factors that make African Americans disproportionately more likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).
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45 Glaucoma, Cataracts, Glaucoma surgery, Cataract surgery, Laser
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Selected Publications

fa Addis VM: Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity. The Ophthalmology Clinical Trials Handbook. Laura Vickers and M. Tariq Batti (eds.). Nova Science Pub Inc, New York, 2015.

11c Duman F, Waisbourd M, Faria B, Addis V, Hseih M, Ekici F, Hark LA, Spaeth GL: Trabeculectomy in Patients with Glaucoma over 80 Years of Age: Relatively Short-Term Outcomes. J Glaucoma 25(3): 123-127, March 2016.

169 Duman F, Waisbourd M, Faria B, Addis V, Hseih M, Ekici F, Hark L, Spaeth G: Surgical Outcomes of Trabeculectomy in Patients with Glaucoma Over 80 Years of Age. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL May 2014 Notes: Poster presentation.

133 Addis V, Pastrana D, Fitzgerald D: Characterization of a Small, Noncoding RNA in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL May 2014 Notes: Poster presentation.

b1 Addis V, Banker T, Godrey K, Schwartz A, Weichel E: Intraocular Pressure (IOP) Following Uncomplicated, Small-Gauge Pars Plana 9d Vitrectomy (PPV) Repair of Primary Rhegmatogemous Retinal Detachments (RD). International Symposium for Eye Research: Molecular Mechanisms in Glaucoma, 45 Sarasota, FL Sep 2013 Notes: Poster presentation.

df Addis Victoria M, DeVore Heather K, Summerfield Michael E: Acute visual changes in the elderly. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 29(1): 165-80, Feb 2013.

10d Morrison C D, Papp A C, Hejmanowski A Q, Addis V M, Prior T W: Increased D allele frequency of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene in pulmonary fibrosis. Human pathology 32(5): 521-8, May 2001.

144 Chang Wei-Jen, Stover Nicholas A, Addis Victoria M, Landweber Laura F: A micronuclear locus containing three protein-coding genes remains linked during macronuclear development in the spirotrichous ciliate Holosticha. Protist 155(2): 245-55, Jun 2004.

16f Chang Wei-Jen, Addis Victoria M, Li Anya J, Axelsson Elin, Ardell David H, Landweber Laura F: Intron Evolution and Information processing in the DNA polymerase alpha gene in spirotrichous ciliates: a hypothesis for interconversion between DNA and RNA deletion. Biology direct 1(2): 6, Feb 2007.

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