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Jennifer U. Sung, M.D.
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Dr. Jennifer U. Sung is a vitreoretinal specialist at the Wilmer Eye Institute. She is a full-time Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her responsibilities include clinical care of patients with retinal diseases, both medical and surgical, teaching of medical students, residents, and fellows, and research on neuroprotection in retinal degenerations. Dr. Sung received her undergraduate degree in Neurobiology and Physiology from Northwestern University in the Honors Program in Medical Education. She also received her medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in 1994. During her medical education, she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the NIH (1992-93). After a straight medicine internship at the Evanston Hospital, she completed an ophthalmology residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida (1995-98). Further specialized training followed with a two-year vitreoretinal fellowship at the Wills Eye Hospital and an additional fellowship in medical retina focusing on inherited retinal diseases and macular degeneration research with Professor Alan Bird at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, United Kingdom. Subsequently, Dr. Sung joined the faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute where she established two retinal practices at satellite locations in addition to her clinical practice at the main hospital in East Baltimore. She also worked in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Campochiaro at the Wilmer Eye Institute on neuroprotection and retinal degeneration where she helped establish a system for electroretinograms in mice. Recently, Dr. Sung was awarded an NIH K12 Mentored Clinician-Scientist Award. Her co-Mentors are Drs. Peter A. Campochiaro and Solomon H. Snyder. In 2007, she was also was awarded a Foundation for Fighting Blindness Center Grant as a co-Principal Investigator on a module on oxidative damage. Other grants include the Knights Templar Eye Foundation Award. Her primary research focus is on neuroprotection and oxidative damage animal models of retinal degeneration. |
