About Me
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- retinopathy
- retinal artery occlusion
- diabetic retinopathy
- retinal detachment
- eye floater
- eye injury
- retinoblastoma
- macular degeneration
Treatments
- retinal surgery
- eye surgery
Learn more about conditions we treat at NYU Langone:
Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Retinal DetachmentCredentials
Positions
- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Board Certifications
- American Board of Ophthalmology - Ophthalmology, 2011
Education and Training
- Residency, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Ophthalmology, 2008
- PhD from University Of Oklahoma, 2004
- MD from Ludwig-Maximillian University, 1999
- Fellowship, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Vitreoretinal Dis.,
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This provider accepts the following insurance plans.
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Aetna
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Indemnity
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- Aetna Medicare Managed Care
- Aetna Meritain Health
- Aetna Open Access EPO
- Aetna Open Access HMO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna POS (American Express Employer)
- Aetna PPO
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- Allied
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- Nippon Life of America-Aetna
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- WellNet
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Blue Cross Blue Shield
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- BCBS EPO
- BCBS EPO (BlackRock Employees)
- BCBS EPO - Empire EPO (NYU Langone Employees)
- BCBS EPO - Empire EPO (Sunset Park/Family Health Center Employees)
- BCBS EPO - Empire NYU Care (NYU Langone Employees)
- BCBS EPO - Empire NYU Care (Sunset Park/Family Health Center Employees)
- BCBS Federal Program
- BCBS Florida Blue Care HMO
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Cigna
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- American Plan Administrators
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Local 1199
- Local 1199 - NYU Hospital Member Choice
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Magnacare
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Multiplan
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- Beech Street PPO
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NYSHIP - The Empire Plan
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Locations and Appointments
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of NY
460 Park Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of NY
244 Westchester Avenue, Suite 407
Harrison, NY 10604
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of NY
902 Quentin Road, Suite 601
Brooklyn, NY 11223
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of NY, P.C.
950 3rd Ave, 3rd Fl
New York, NY 10022
Research My Research
Interests
bacterial endophthalmitis, staphylococcus aureus infection
Research Summary
The incidence of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding infection of the interior of the eye is becoming an ever more important public health problem, since intraocular procedures have experienced exponential growth in recent years. The molecular pathogenesis of endophthalmitis (and many other bacterial infections) is poorly understood, and potential therapeutic avenues therefore remain unexplored. S. aureus is the most important cause of severe endophthalmitis (and many other sever infections), with less than half of patients regaining vision better than 20/200, the cutoff for legal blindness. S. aureus will be the focus of the proposed research. The overarching goal of this project is to characterize the organisms causing severe ocular S. aureus infections, and use endophthalmitis as a model of disease that affords an unparalleled view of the mechanisms involved in the molecular pathogenesis of bacterial infection. The specific goals of this project are to (i) collect and characterize bacterial isolates from ocular infections in a collaborative fashion both locally, nationally and internationally, and characterize them on the molecular level, (ii) analyze the host-pathogen interactions that lead to an untoward outcome in S. aureus endophthalmitis by employing genetically modified bacterial strains and knockout host organisms in animal models developed by the principal investigator, and (iii) therapeutically modulate bacterial gene expression and the host response based on the knowledge gleaned from (i) and (ii) to improve visual outcome of patients with endophthalmitis, or other severe staphylococcal infections. The principal investigator has an established network of collaborators both on the NYU Campus (R.Novick Ph.D., B. Shopsin M.D.) and outside of NYU both in New York (R. Rosen M.D., NYEE; S.C. Chang M.D., Columbia University) and outside (M.S. Gilmore Ph.D., Harvard University; H. Flynn M.D., Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; H. Mi?o de Kaspar Ph.D., Stanford University and Munich University, Germany) that allows for collaborative collection of bacterial strains and to monitor emerging etiologic trends nationally and internationally.
Research Interests Timeline
Publications
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Vaz-Pereira, Sara; Monteiro-Grillo, Manuel; Engelbert, Michael
International journal of retina & vitreous. 2020 Nov 23; 6(1):59
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Ledesma-Gil, Gerardo; Fine, Howard F; Fernández-Avellaneda, Pedro; Kaden, Talia R; Engelbert, Michael
Ophthalmic surgery, lasers & imaging retina. 2020 Jun 01; 51(6):312-319
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Francis, Jasmine H; Berry, Duncan; Abramson, David H; Barker, Christopher A; Bergstrom, Chris; Demirci, Hakan; Engelbert, Michael; Grossniklaus, Hans; Hubbard, Baker; Iacob, Codrin E; Jaben, Korey; Kurli, Madhavi; Postow, Michael A; Wolchok, Jedd D; Kim, Ivana K; Wells, Jill R
Ophthalmology. 2020 Feb ; 127(2):240-248