Gerami Seitzman, MD

Professor 
H. Bruce Ostler Chair in International Ophthalmology and Prevention of Blindness

Dr. Seitzman is a clinician, educator, and research scientist whose clinical areas of interest include infectious and inflammatory diseases of the cornea and ocular surface. She also specializes in cornea and external disease manifestations of systemic conditions. She is an award-winning teacher. Her research interests include dry eye, ocular rosacea, and infections of the conjunctiva and cornea. She is the director of our Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Surgery Fellowship Program and the medical director of our Proctor medical clinics.

 Education:

  • University of Michigan, BS, Biology
  • University of Michigan Medical School, MD
  • St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Intern, Internal Medicine
  • Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Residency Ophthalmology
  • F.I. Proctor Foundation, UCSF, Fellow, Cornea & External Diseases, and Uveitis

 

For more details please visit: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/Gerami.Seitzman

 

Dr. Seitzman's Research

 

Ocular Rosacea microBiome Study

The Ocular Rosacea microBiome Study (ORBS) is a pioneering international, multi-site research initiative designed to explore the impact of different dosing strategies of doxycycline on the treatment of symptomatic ocular rosacea. This parallel-arm randomized clinical trial will investigate sub-microbial versus antibiotic dosing of doxycycline compared to a placebo, aiming to enhance our understanding of the disease and improve therapeutic outcomes.

PI: Gerami Seitzman, MD

For more please visit: https://proctor.ucsf.edu/orbs

 

 

Studying Dry Eye Disease Remotely

Studying Dry Eye Disease Remotely is a UCSF-led feasibility project that tests whether dry-eye research can be carried out entirely from home. Using a mailed kit, volunteers complete brief symptom surveys, collect their own tear or eyelid-swab samples, and return everything for laboratory analysis. The findings will show whether fully remote sampling can widen participation and help match treatments to specific dry-eye profiles.

PI: Gerami Seitzman, MD

For more please visit: https://proctor.ucsf.edu/studying-dry-eye-disease-remotely