Liangbo Linus Shen, MD

I am a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at Duke University School of Medicine. I graduated summa cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from Duke, where I co-invented a patented stereoscopic heads-up display system for ophthalmic surgery and advanced intraoperative optical coherence tomography. I went on to earn my medical degree cum laude from Yale School of Medicine, where I co-developed the “entry time realignment” statistical method that enabled long-term natural history studies of geographic atrophy, choroideremia, Stargardt disease, Huntington’s disease, and USH2A-retinopathy. I also identified novel imaging biomarkers and developed a pixel-based analysis method that can reduce clinical trial sample sizes for geographic atrophy by more than tenfold compared with conventional methods. I completed rigorous clinical and surgical training during my ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco. At UCSF, I also pursued research in imaging biomarkers of age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degenerations. My work included leading analyses for the METforMIN randomized trial on metformin and geographic atrophy progression, as well as investigating cone structure changes.