Jeffrey Michael Sundstrom, MD, PhD
Ophthalmology
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Sees patients of all ages
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
  • Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center

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My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Sundstrom is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Zhao Y, Weber SR, Lease J, Russo M, Siedlecki CA, Xu LC, Chen H, Wang W, Ford M, Simó R, Sundstrom JM. Liquid Biopsy of Vitreous Reveals an Abundant Vesicle Population Consistent With the Size and Morphology of Exosomes , Transl Vis Sci Technol, 7: 2018,6


Vladimir Khristov, Sarah R Weber, Mireille Caton-Darby, Gregory Campbell, Jeffrey M Sundstrom Diagnostic and Therapeutic Utility of Extracellular Vesicles in Ocular Disease , International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26: 2025,836


Gardner TW, Sundstrom JM. A proposal for early and personalized treatment of diabetic retinopathy based on clinical pathophysiology and molecular phenotyping , Vision Res, 139: 2017,153-160


Weber SR, Zhao Y, Ma J, Gates C, da Veiga Leprevost F, Basrur V, Nesvizhskii AI, Gardner TW, Sundstrom JM. A validated analysis pipeline for mass spectrometry-based vitreous proteomics: new insights into proliferative diabetic retinopathy , Clin Proteomics, 18: 2021,28


Weber SR, Zhao Y, Gates C, Ma J, da Veiga Leprevost F, Basrur V, Nesvizhskii AI, Gardner TW, Sundstrom JM. Proteomic Analyses of Vitreous in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: Prior Studies and Future Outlook , J Clin Med, 10: 2021,2309


Demirci H, Tang L, Demirci FY, Ozgonul C, Weber S, Sundstrom J. Investigating Vitreous Cytokines in Choroidal Melanoma , Cancers (Basel), 15: 2023,3701


Zhou M, Geathers JS, Grillo SL, Weber SR, Wang W, Zhao Y, Sundstrom JM. Role of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Retinal Pigment Epithelium Dysfunction , Front Cell Dev Biol, 8: 2020,501


Zhou M, Weber SR, Zhao Y, Chen H, Barber AJ, Grillo SL, Wills CA, Wang HG, Hulleman JD, Sundstrom JM. Expression of R345W-Fibulin-3 Induces Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells , Front Cell Dev Biol, 8: 2020,469


Geathers J, Grillo S, Campbell G., Liao J, Barber AJ, Grillo SL and Sundstrom JM Sodium Iodate Induces Hyperreflective Foci in the Mouse Neural Retina , Frontiers in Bioscience Landmark, 29(11): 2024,380