The Center for Ocular Inflammation is the first of its kind to offer integrative patient care, patient support, physician education, and research concerning to ocular inflammatory diseases such as uveitis, scleritis, and ocular cicatricial pemphigoid. The Center for Ocular Inflammation is an endowed program within the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Uveitis is a general term for a group of diseases involving infectious and non-infectious inflammation inside the eye. This group of diseases account for 10% of legal blindness in the United States and, unlike many age-related eye diseases, it affects younger, working-age individuals. Often, other organ systems are involved in the inflammatory process. When combined with other ocular inflammatory disorders such as scleritis and ocular pemphigoid, the scope and patient impact of ocular inflammation is even greater.
Patients work with an ophthalmologist, a rheumatologist, and other medical specialists in a simultaneous, combined environment at the UCHealth Ocular Inflammation Multidisciplinary Clinic – Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center. Ocular inflammatory diseases can have significant long term visual consequences and we believe that this approach provides improved and more efficient patient care and physician coordination.
Contact Us
UCHealth Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center – Anschutz Medical Campus
Address: 1675 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 720-848-2020
New Patient Inquiries: uch-eyeintakeaccesscoordinators@uchealth.org
Research and General Inquiries: ocularinflammation@cuanschutz.edu
Center for Ocular Inflammation Faculty
The Center has developed integrated clinics at the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center, specializing in Uveitis and Rheumatology, Uveitis and Glaucoma, and Ocular Surface Inflammation. The UCHealth Ocular Inflammation Multidisciplinary Clinic – Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center team includes:
Alan Palestine, MD
Chief of the Uveitis and Ocular Immunology Section
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology
Jason Kolfenbach, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology
Program Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program
Professor of Ophthalmology
Amit Reddy, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Mina Pantcheva, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Jennifer Jung, MD
Director of the Retinopathy of Prematurity Service
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Kaleb Abbott, OD, MS, FAAO
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Lynn Hassman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Rebecca Edwards Mayhew, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology