Katherine E. Uyhazi, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology
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Scheie Eye Institute Perelman
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

My education and training

  • Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
  • Residency: Scheie Eye Institute

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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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. Uyhazi is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Yano JJ, Wei Z, Gajjar K, Barati-Stec K, Yang E, Uyhazi KE Lineage tracing reveals photoreceptor precursor cell subpopulations that contribute to murine retinogenesis. , Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 14(1814134): 2026

Pham K, Uyhazi KE. Retinal Findings in Kjellin Syndrome , Ophthalmology: 2025

Aleman TS, Uyhazi KE, Roman AJ, Weber ML, O'Neil EC, Swider M, Sumaroka A, Maguire KH, Aleman EM, Santos AJ, Kim RJ, Parchinski KM, Billek A, Fradin M, Chung W, Margaritis P, Sun J, Scoles DH, Wu V, Garafalo AV, Jayagopal A, Yerxa B, Tuller S, Maguire AM, Bennett J, Cideciyan AV. Recovery of cone-mediated vision in Lebercilin associated retinal ciliopathy after gene therapy: One-year results of a phase I/II trial , Mol Ther, 33: 2025,4784-4798

Wilder RJ, An AF, Bell BA, Fossett G, Wojciechowski AM, Shpylchak I, Uyhazi KE. Intraretinal variation in disease severity in the Oat(rhg) mouse model of gyrate atrophy , Exp Eye Res, 255: 2025,110382

Aleman TS, Roman AJ, Uyhazi KE, Jiang YY, Bedoukian EC, Sumaroka A, Wu V, Swider M, Viarbitskaya I, Russell RC, Shagena EO, Santos AJ, Serrano LW, Parchinski KM, Kim RJ, Weber ML, Garafalo AV, Thompson DA, Maguire AM, Bennett J, Scoles DH, O'Neil EC, Morgan JIW, Cideciyan AV. Retinal Degeneration Associated With Biallelic RDH12 Variants: Longitudinal Evaluation of Retinal Structure and Visual Function in Pediatric Patients , Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 65: 2024,30

Vrathasha V, Nikonov S, Bell BA, He J, Bungatavula Y, Uyhazi KE, Murthy Chavali VR. Transplanted human induced pluripotent stem cells- derived retinal ganglion cells embed within mouse retinas and are electrophysiologically functional , iScience, 25: 2022,105308

Uyhazi KE, Bennett J. A CRISPR view of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , J Clin Invest, 131: 2021,e145214

Uyhazi KE, Binenbaum G, Carducci N, Zackai EH, Aleman TS Early photoreceptor outer segment loss and retinoschisis in Cohen syndrome. , Ophthalmic Genetics, 39(3): 2018,399-404

Ammar MJ, Scavelli KT, Uyhazi KE, Bedoukian EC, Serrano LW, Edelstein ID, Vergilio G, Cooper RF, Morgan JIW, Kumar P, Aleman TS Enhanced S-Cone Syndrome: Visual Function, Cross-Sectional Imaging, and Cellular Structure with Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy. , Retinal Cases & Brief Reports: 2019

Uyhazi KE, Aravand P, Bell BA, Wei Z, Leo L, Serrano LW, Pearson DJ, Shpylchak I, Pham J, Vasireddy V, Bennett J, Aleman TS Treatment Potential for LCA5-Associated Leber Congenital Amaurosis. , Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci , 61(5): 2020,30