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Marily Oppezzo
Instructor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioMarily Oppezzo is a behavioral and learning scientist. She completed her doctorate in Educational Psychology at Stanford in 2013. She also is a registered dietitian and has her master's of nutritional science. She completed her dietetic internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, and currently consults as a sports dietitian for Stanford's Runsafe program. Her research interests leverage her interdisciplinary training, with a focus on how to get people to change to improve their health and well-being. Specifically, these areas include: using social media to motivate physical activity changes in those with or at risk for heart disease; culturally tailoring nutrition and physical activity recommendations and education materials for an Alaskan native population; how walking can be used to improve people's cognitive and creative thinking; and applying learning theories to medical education topics.
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Chi Mong Christopher Or
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
BioDr. Or is a board-certified ophthalmologist and family medicine physician. He received advanced uveitis training through the uveitis and medical retina fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to residency, he also completed a fellowship in optical coherence tomography (OCT) research at the New England Eye Center. Dr. Or treats patients at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford Health Care and Menlo Medical Clinic in Menlo Park. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Or treats many eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, and uveitis. He emphasizes using imaging to diagnose and monitor the progression of eye conditions.
His research interests include eye imaging methods such as OCT and OCT angiography (OCTA). Dr. Or has studied these imaging techniques for years, first as a research assistant, then as a fellow, and now as a principal investigator. He has studied using these imaging techniques for diagnosing and monitoring age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis.
He is actively involved in clinical trials for optical imaging and serves as principal investigator in clinical trials assessing different medications to treat eye diseases.
Dr. Or has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics such as optical imaging, autoimmune eye diseases, and vascular eye diseases. His research has appeared in prestigious journals including Clinical Ophthalmology, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, Retina, the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and many other ophthalmology journals worldwide.
He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Dr. Or has presented his research at various national and international meeting several times.
