 John
P. Whitcher, MD, MPH
Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology
Contact Information
95 Kirkham Box 0412
San Francisco, CA 94143-0412
Patients/Clinic Phone: 415-476-1442
Education
MD: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Residency: University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship: Cornea and External Diseases, Francis I. Proctor
Foundation, University of California, San Francisco
MPH: Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
Research Interests - INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
As the primary ophthalmologist in the SICCA (Sjögren’s International Collaborative Clinical Alliance) Study, Dr. Whitcher has spent the past three years developing and standardizing protocols and calibrating ocular examinations at the lead center at UCSF with the four collaborating centers in Japan, China, Argentina, and Denmark. Two more SICCA collaborating centers in London, England and in Madurai, India are being added to the study. His second focus of research is the epidemiology and prevention of corneal ulcers in developing countries. As a W.H.O. consultant he designed the protocols and helped implement three corneal ulcer prevention studies in the South East Asia Region in Bhutan, Myanmar, and South India. A second corneal prevention study is now taking place in South India. In addition, Dr. Whitcher continues to work as a co-principle investigator on two projects with Dr. Tom Lietman: the Ethiopia Trachoma Project in the Guraghe Zone and in the North Amhara Region of that country, and the SCUT (Steroids for Corneal Ulcer Treatment) Study in Madurai, India.
Representative Publications
Warren JF, Aldave AJ, Srinivasan M, Thonar EJ, Kumar AB,
Cevallos V, Whitcher JP, Margolis TP. Novel mutations in the
CHST6 gene associated with macular corneal dystrophy in southern
India. Arch Ophthalmol. 2003 Nov;121(11):1608-12.
Whitcher JP. Too dry or not too dry. Br J Ophthalmol. 2003
Jun;87(6):665-6.
Gaynor BD, Miao Y, Cevallos V, Jha H, Chaudary JS, Bhatta
R, Osaki-Holm S, Yi E, Schachter J, Whitcher JP, Lietman T.
Eliminating trachoma in areas with limited disease. Emerg
Infect Dis. 2003 May;9(5):596-8.
Melese M, Alemayehu W, Gaynor B, Yi E, Whitcher JP, Lietman
TM. What more is there to learn about trachoma? Br J Ophthalmol.
2003 May;87(5):521-2.
Gaynor BD, Holbrook KA, Whitcher JP, Holm SO, Jha HC, Chaudhary
JS, Bhatta RC, Lietman T. Community treatment with azithromycin
for trachoma is not associated with antibiotic resistance
in Streptococcus pneumoniae at 1 year. Br J Ophthalmol. 2003
Feb;87(2):147-8.
Jha H, Chaudary JS, Bhatta R, Miao Y, Osaki-Holm S, Gaynor
B, Zegans M, Bird M, Yi E, Holbrook K, Whitcher JP, Lietman
T. Disappearance of trachoma from Western Nepal. Clin Infect
Dis. 2002 Sep 15;35(6):765-8. Epub 2002 Aug 21.
Whitcher JP, Srinivasan M, Upadhyay MP. Prevention of corneal
ulceration in the developing world. Int Ophthalmol Clin. 2002
Winter;42(1):71-7.
Siverio CD Jr, Whitcher JP. Haemophilus influenzae corneal
ulcer associated with atopic keratoconjunctivitis and herpes
simplex keratitis. Br J Ophthalmol. 2002 Apr;86(4):478-9.
Alrawi AM, Chern KC, Cevallos V, Lietman T, Whitcher JP,
Margolis TP, Cunningham ET Jr. Biotypes and serotypes of Haemophilus
influenzae ocular isolates. Br J Ophthalmol. 2002 Mar;86(3):276-7.
Whitcher JP, Srinivasan M, Upadhyay MP. Corneal blindness:
a global perspective. Bull World Health Organ. 2001;79(3):214-21.
Epub 2003 Jul 07. Complete
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