Silvia Orengo-Nania, MD

Professor and Department Chair, Burch Endowed Chair, Glaucoma and Cataracts Division

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Professor and Department Chair, Burch Endowed Chair, Glaucoma and Cataracts Division

Education

Publications

Selected Publications

Adamek AJ, Hussein MA, Abdulkarim I, Orengo-Nania S, Sheheitli H (2025 Nov 16). An assessment of the prevalence of cannabis use in eye clinic patients and its implications on glaucoma diagnosis and management. International ophthalmology, 45(1), 484. PubMed ID: 41243046. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-025-03846-2.

Zafar S, Walder A, Virani S, Biggerstaff K, Orengo-Nania S, Chang J, Channa R (2023 Jul 1). Systemic Adverse Events Among Patients With Diabetes Treated With Intravitreal Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Injections. JAMA ophthalmology, 141(7), 658-666. PubMed ID: 37261816. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2023.2098.

Zhou P, Gao J, Huang X, Staggers KA, Biggerstaff K, Orengo-Nania S, Channa R (2022 Jun). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on visual outcomes of diabetic macular edema patients at a tertiary care veterans affairs center. Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders, 21(1), 759-768. PubMed ID: 35582648. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40200-022-01049-5.

Biggerstaff KS, White DL, Frankfort BJ, Richardson P, Orengo-Nania S, Garcia J, Chiao EY, Kramer JR (2021 Nov). Gout and open-angle glaucoma risk in a veteran population. Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie, 259(11), 3371-3379. PubMed ID: 34272610. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-021-05273-2.

Kass MA, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ, Parrish RK, Khanna CL, Brandt JD, Soltau JB, Johnson CA, Keltner JL, Huecker JB, Wilson BS, Liu L, Miller JP, Quigley HA, Gordon MO, Ocular Hypertension Study Group (2021 Apr 15). Assessment of Cumulative Incidence and Severity of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Among Participants in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study After 20 Years of Follow-up. JAMA ophthalmology, 139(5), 1-9. PubMed ID: 33856434. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2021.0341.

Naguib MM, Chévez-Barrios P, Orengo-Nania S, Schefler AC (2021 Jan-Apr). Locally Invasive Diffuse Iris Ring Melanoma Presenting as Unilateral Severe Glaucoma: Case Report and Review of Molecular Genetics. Case reports in oncology, 14(1), 403-410. PubMed ID: 33790763. doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000512012.

Kanakamedala A, Salazar H, Campagna G, Chamberlain P, Vadapalli S, Orengo-Nania S, Khandelwal S (2020 Nov). Outcomes of Scleral Contact Lens Use in Veteran Population. Eye & contact lens, 46(6), 348-352. PubMed ID: 31794543. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/ICL.0000000000000671.

Campagna G, Chamberlain P, Orengo-Nania S, Biggerstaff K, Khandelwal S (2018 Dec). Ophthalmic Conditions Associated with Inpatient Falls among Veterans. Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry, 95(12), 1114-1119. PubMed ID: 30451809. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000001312.

Biggerstaff KS, Frankfort BJ, Orengo-Nania S, Garcia J, Chiao E, Kramer JR, White D (2018 Apr). Validity of code based algorithms to identify primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative databases. Ophthalmic epidemiology, 25(2), 162-168. PubMed ID: 28945495. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09286586.2017.1378688.

Biggerstaff KS, Vincent RD, Lin AP, Orengo-Nania S, Frankfort BJ (2016 Aug). Trabeculectomy Outcomes by Supervised Trainees in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Journal of glaucoma, 25(8), 669-73. PubMed ID: 26950572. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/IJG.0000000000000399.