Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Satellite
Cochrane is the only international organization that has the goal of synthesizing and keeping up to date the evidence for all of healthcare. Systematic reviews use explicit methods to identify, appraise, and synthesize available evidence for a clinical question. Cochrane Eyes and Vision (CEV) aims to prepare and promote access to systematic reviews of interventions used to prevent or treat eye conditions and/or visual impairment, and to help people adjust to visual impairment or blindness. For 17 years, CEV United States Satellite (CEV@US) has overseen production of systematic reviews contributing to eyes and vision comparative effectiveness research in the US in many ways. The purpose of comparative effectiveness research is to assist patients, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers in making informed health decisions, and to contribute to evidence-based healthcare. Specifically, CEV@US aims to
- Build a comparative effectiveness research workforce within the field of vision science by educating and training health professionals on key topics;
- Partner with professional societies, academic medical centers, journals, and others to ensure that the knowledge underpinning clinical practice is reliable, available, and applied;
- Prepare systematic reviews addressing prioritized questions, publish the reviews, and regularly update them as new research emerges;
- Conduct foundational methodological research related to systematic reviews;
- Disseminate the results of our research.
CEV@US Faculty, Staff and Students
Principal Investigator
 | Tianjing Li, MD, MHS, PhD, serves as the Director for CEV@US.She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at University of Colorado School of Public Health. |
Co-Investigators
- Naresh Mandava, MD
- Alan Palestine, MD
- Henry Jampel, MD, MHS
- Barbara S. Hawkins, MS, PhD, FSCT - Dr. Hawkins is Professor Emerita of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology. She is an epidemiologist and clinical trialist with more than 40 years of experience in eyes and vision research.
- Roberta Scherer, PhD, MA:
Project Director
 | Alison Su-Hsun Liu, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at Department of Ophthalmology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Before joining the Cochrane Eye and Vision US Satellite (CEV@US) in July 2021, Alison was a consulting methodologist for CEV between February and June 2021. Meanwhile, Alison has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of the International Health Program at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly National Yang Ming University) since 2018. Dr. Liu received her MPH and PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and MD from National Taiwan University. |
Production Manager
 | Renee F. Wilson, MS, is a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She has been the Managing Editor for the Cochrane Eye and Vision US Satellite (CEV@US) since 2018. Additionally, she works with the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) as a Senior Research Program Manager. Prior to this she was the Managing Editor for the Journal of General Internal medicine for five years.
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Research Faculty
 | Riaz Qureshi, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2021, he completed his PhD in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Riaz's research focuses on evidence synthesis and clinical trials methods and meta-research in general. He is particularly interested in the methods used to investigate harms of interventions at different levels of evidence: from adverse events collected and reported in clinical trials to the synthesis of harms in systematic reviews. |
Methodologists
 | Sueko Ng, MHS, is a methodologist with the Cochrane Eye and Vision US Satellite (CEV@US). Her role includes assisting the systematic review process, such as assessing the eligibility of relevant studies, critically appraising
risk of bias, extracting data, conducting qualitative and quantitative data synthesis, and preparing manuscripts for publication in The Cochrane Library. She received her Master of Health Science Degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
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 | Louis Leslie, BA, is a research methodologist with Cochrane Eyes and Vision (CEV@US). His research background has involved qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. After preclinical training in medical school at the University
of Colorado, he transitioned to working on research in clinical ethics, evidence synthesis, and review methodology. As a methodologist at CEV@US, he assists review authors in performing Cochrane systematic reviews. louis.leslie@cuanschutz.edu |
 | Thanitsara Muky Rittiphairoj, MD, MPH, is a methodologist with the Cochrane Eye and Vision US Satellite (CEV@US). Dr. Rittiphairoj received her MD from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 2018, and her MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2021. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2019. Dr. Rittiphairoj has contributed to several Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews and methodological projects related to evidence synthesis. |
Information Specialists
Lori Rosman, MLS, AHIP
Claire Twose, MLIS
Consumer Coordinator
 | Genie Han, MS, is a Senior Research Project Coordinator with the Cochrane Eye and Vision US Satellite (CEV@US). She has been involved with CEV@US since 2012. Ms. Han also serves as the coordinator for Consumers United
for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE), a coalition of consumer health advocacy organizations in the United States. |
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
 | Paul McCann, MBChB, MRes, PhD is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Ophthalmology. Paul was awarded his PhD in Medicine from Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His doctoral research focused on applied
epidemiology and diagnostics in glaucoma. Prior to his PhD, Paul gained his Masters of Research in Translational Medicine from Queen’s University Belfast, UK and his medical degree from the University of Liverpool, UK. Paul will
be working with the CEV@US team as part of his post-doctoral fellowship at Colorado. |
Graduate Research Assistants
 | Hillary Ta, BS, is a medical student at CU Anschutz Class of 2025. She graduated with her BS from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019 where she conducted three years of bench research on dopaminergic neurons. She then spent two years in clinical research, studying diabetes and pancreatic cancer at Stanford University before matriculating into medical school. She is now part of the research track and conducts various projects on systematic reviews and methodology in the department of Ophthalmology under Dr. Tianjing Li. |
 | Tiffany Lien is a medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is pursuing a career in ophthalmology. Her research interests include diversity, equity, and inclusion research in ophthalmology, medicine, and medical education. Tiffany will be working with the CEV@US team as a graduate research assistant conducting and assisting with systematic reviews. |
 | Nicolas Quan is a medical student at the University of Colorado and a student research assistant with the Department of Ophthalmology. He is currently interested in methodological and risk of bias analysis as well as evidence synthesis. He also has multiple publications in other fields of study. nicolas.quan@cuanschutz.edu. |
Statistical Editors
Barbara S. Hawkins, MS, PhD, FSCT
Editors
Esen Akpek, MD
Roy Chuck, MD, PhD
Diana Do, MD
David Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH
Sarah Mickow, DBO
Irene Kuo, MD
Quan Dong Nguyen, MD
Mitchell Scheiman, OD
Roberta Scherer, PhD, MA
Kirk Wilhelmus, MD, MPH, PhD
CEV@US Personnel (past and present): Tianjing Li, Kay Dickersin, Roberta Scherer, Lori Rosman, Genie Han, Jimmy Le, Riaz Qureshi, Jiajun Wen, Kristina Lindsley, Sarah Money, Yuanxi Jia, and Kolade Fapohunda. Not pictured: Henry Jampel, Barbara Hawkins, Naira Khachatryan, Naresh Mandava, Alan Palestine, Ian Saldanha, Samuel Abariga, Renee Wilson, Sueko Ng, Lin Wang, Jianyu E, Nancy Fitton, and Claire Twose.