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Jacque L. Duncan, M.D.
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Jacque L. Duncan, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, is the director of the Retinal Degenerations Clinic at UCSF. She graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University in 1990 with a bachelor of science degree in biological sciences. After spending a year doing research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, she returned to the Bay area to attend medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also completed a general medicine internship and ophthalmology residency. Dr. Duncan then completed a medical retina fellowship at the Scheie Eye Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, working with Stuart Fine, M.D. and Samuel G. Jacobson, M.D., Ph.D. Her fellowship training focused on patients with age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degenerations. She returned to UCSF in 2000 after receiving a K-08 clinician-scientist award, working with Matthew M. LaVail, Ph.D. to characterize preclinical models of retinal degeneration and their responses to different therapies. Dr. Duncan has expertise in the diagnosis and management of patients with retinal degenerations including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt disease. She has a strong interest in developing imaging and monitoring technologies to better evaluate both the progress of disease and the efficacy of emerging therapies. In collaboration with Austin Roorda, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry, she has studied cone photoreceptors in the eyes of patients with many different types of inherited retinal degeneration. She was named the recipient of the Steven G. Kramer, M.D., Ph.D. Chair in ophthalmology in 2007, and has received award funding from Research to Prevent Blindness, the Karl Kirchgessner Foundation, Hope for Vision, and the American Geriatrics Society in addition to a Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. |
