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Jacque L. Duncan, M.D.

Retina specialist

Dr. Jacque Duncan is an ophthalmologist at UCSF Medical Center who specializes in treating retina degenerations such as retinitis pigmentosa, which affects one in 3,500 people worldwide; and age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people over age 50 in the U.S. Both conditions run in families and currently have no cure. Her expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases such as Usher syndrome, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt disease, a form of macular degeneration that develops in childhood, and the use of experimental techniques to slow or prevent these conditions.

In her research, she is studying treatments to preserve vision and to use devices to stimulate visual perception in patients. She has received research funding from Research to Prevent Blindness, Karl Kirchgessner Foundation, Hope for Vision, and American Geriatrics Society in addition to a Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Duncan earned a medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, where she completed an ophthalmology residency. She also completed a medical retina fellowship at the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on patients with age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degeneration. She returned to UCSF and joined the faculty in 2000. She is a professor of clinical ophthalmology at UCSF.

Clinics

Retina and Vitreous Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0344
Phone: (415) 353–2402
Fax: (415) 353–2713

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Conditions & Treatments

More about Jacque L. Duncan

Education

UCSF School of Medicine 1995

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1996

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Ophthalmology 1999
Scheie Eye Institute, Medical Retina 2000

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Syed R, Sundquist SM, Ratnam K, Zayit-Soudry S, Zhang Y, Crawford JB, Macdonald IM, Godara P, Rha J, Carroll J, Roorda A, Stepien KE, Duncan JL. High-resolution images of retinal structure in patients with choroideremia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013; 54(2):950-61.
  2. Humayun MS, Dorn JD, da Cruz L, Dagnelie G, Sahel JA, Stanga PE, Cideciyan AV, Duncan JL, Eliott D, Filley E, Ho AC, Santos A, Safran AB, Arditi A, Del Priore LV, Greenberg RJ. Interim results from the international trial of Second Sight's visual prosthesis. Ophthalmology. 2012 Apr; 119(4):779-88.
  3. Duncan JL, Ratnam K, Birch DG, Sundquist SM, Lucero AS, Zhang Y, Meltzer M, Smaoui N, Roorda A. Abnormal cone structure in foveal schisis cavities in X-linked retinoschisis from mutations in exon 6 of the RS1 gene. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011; 52(13):9614-23.
  4. Mkrtchyan M, Lujan BJ, Merino D, Thirkill CE, Roorda A, Duncan JL. Outer retinal structure in patients with acute zonal occult outer retinopathy. Am J Ophthalmol. 2012 Apr; 153(4):757-68, 768.e1.
  5. Merino D, Duncan JL, Tiruveedhula P, Roorda A. Observation of cone and rod photoreceptors in normal subjects and patients using a new generation adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope. Biomed Opt Express. 2011 Aug 1; 2(8):2189-201.
  6. Chen Y, Ratnam K, Sundquist SM, Lujan B, Ayyagari R, Gudiseva VH, Roorda A, Duncan JL. Cone photoreceptor abnormalities correlate with vision loss in patients with Stargardt disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 May; 52(6):3281-92.
  7. Talcott KE, Ratnam K, Sundquist SM, Lucero AS, Lujan BJ, Tao W, Porco TC, Roorda A, Duncan JL. Longitudinal study of cone photoreceptors during retinal degeneration and in response to ciliary neurotrophic factor treatment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Apr; 52(5):2219-26.
  8. Deveault C, Billingsley G, Duncan JL, Bin J, Theal R, Vincent A, Fieggen KJ, Gerth C, Noordeh N, Traboulsi EI, Fishman GA, Chitayat D, Knueppel T, Millán JM, Munier FL, Kennedy D, Jacobson SG, Innes AM, Mitchell GA, Boycott K, Héon E. BBS genotype-phenotype assessment of a multiethnic patient cohort calls for a revision of the disease definition. Hum Mutat. 2011 Jun; 32(6):610-9.
  9. Duncan JL, Talcott KE, Ratnam K, Sundquist SM, Lucero AS, Day S, Zhang Y, Roorda A. Cone structure in retinal degeneration associated with mutations in the peripherin/RDS gene. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Mar; 52(3):1557-66.
  10. Thorne JE, Van Natta ML, Jabs DA, Duncan JL, Srivastava SK. Visual field loss in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis. Ophthalmology. 2011 May; 118(5):895-901.
  11. Godara P, Dubis AM, Roorda A, Duncan JL, Carroll J. Adaptive optics retinal imaging: emerging clinical applications. Optom Vis Sci. 2010 Dec; 87(12):930-41.
  12. Gelfand JM, Duncan JL, Racine CA, Gillum LA, Chin CT, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Wong LJ, Roorda A, Green AJ. Heterogeneous patterns of tissue injury in NARP syndrome. J Neurol. 2011 Mar; 258(3):440-8.
  13. Billingsley G, Bin J, Fieggen KJ, Duncan JL, Gerth C, Ogata K, Wodak SS, Traboulsi EI, Fishman GA, Paterson A, Chitayat D, Knueppel T, Millán JM, Mitchell GA, Deveault C, Héon E. Mutations in chaperonin-like BBS genes are a major contributor to disease development in a multiethnic Bardet-Biedl syndrome patient population. J Med Genet. 2010 Jul; 47(7):453-63.
  14. Lin P, Shankar SP, Duncan J, Slavotinek A, Stone EM, Rutar T. Retinal vascular abnormalities and dragged maculae in a carrier with a new NDP mutation (c.268delC) that caused severe Norrie disease in the proband. J AAPOS. 2010 Feb; 14(1):93-6.
  15. Chen Y, Roorda A, Duncan JL. Advances in imaging of Stargardt disease. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010; 664:333-40.
  16. Sohn EH, Francis PJ, Duncan JL, Weleber RG, Saperstein DA, Farrell DF, Stone EM. Phenotypic variability due to a novel Glu292Lys variation in exon 8 of the BEST1 gene causing best macular dystrophy. Arch Ophthalmol. 2009 Jul; 127(7):913-20.
  17. Duncan KG, Hosseini K, Bailey KR, Yang H, Lowe RJ, Matthes MT, Kane JP, LaVail MM, Schwartz DM, Duncan JL. Expression of reverse cholesterol transport proteins ATP-binding cassette A1 (ABCA1) and scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) in the retina and retinal pigment epithelium. Br J Ophthalmol. 2009 Aug; 93(8):1116-20.
  18. Lavail MM, Nishikawa S, Duncan JL, Yang H, Matthes MT, Yasumura D, Vollrath D, Overbeek PA, Ash JD, Robinson ML. Sustained delivery of NT-3 from lens fiber cells in transgenic mice reveals specificity of neuroprotection in retinal degenerations. J Comp Neurol. 2008 Dec 20; 511(6):724-35.
  19. Yoon MK, Roorda A, Zhang Y, Nakanishi C, Wong LJ, Zhang Q, Gillum L, Green A, Duncan JL. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images in a family with the mitochondrial DNA T8993C mutation. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 Apr; 50(4):1838-47.
  20. Grishanin RN, Yang H, Liu X, Donohue-Rolfe K, Nune GC, Zang K, Xu B, Duncan JL, Lavail MM, Copenhagen DR, Reichardt LF. Retinal TrkB receptors regulate neural development in the inner, but not outer, retina. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2008 Jul; 38(3):431-43.

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