Prof. Pedram Hamrah

Tufts University, USA

Email: pedram.hamrah@tufts.edu, edram_hamrah@meei.harvard.edu

Qualifications

2008 Certification (Program in Clinical Effectiveness), Harvard School of Public Health

1999 Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), University of Cologne, School of Medicine

1992 Certified Computer, Science Assistant in Software Engineering, B.I.B International College

1990 High School Diploma, Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium, Bensberg

Publications (Selected)

1. Koseoglu, N. D., Chen, E., Tuwani, R., Kompa, B., Cox, S. M., Cuneyt Ozmen, M., ... & Hamrah, P. (2025). Development and validation of a deep learning model for diagnosing neuropathic corneal pain via in vivo confocal microscopy. npj Digital Medicine, 8(1), 1-8.
2. Cohen, E. J., Troxel, A. B., Liu, M., Hochman, J. S., Baratz, K. H., Mian, S. I., ... & Sugar, J. (2025). Low-dose valacyclovir in herpes zoster ophthalmicus: the Zoster Eye Disease randomized clinical trial. JAMA ophthalmology, 143(4), 269-276.
3. Shah, R., Amador, C., Poe, A. J., Spektor, T. M., Bhandary, P., Wang, Y., ... & Ljubimov, A. V. (2025). Identification of Wnt-5a receptors important in diabetic and non-diabetic corneal epithelial wound healing. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 66(2), 64-64.
4. Dohlman, T. H., Singh, R. B., Amparo, F., Carreno-Galeano, T., Dastjerdi, M., Coco, G., ... & Dana, R. (2024). Suppression of neovascularization by topical and subconjunctival bevacizumab after high-risk corneal transplantation. Ophthalmology Science, 4(4), 100492.
5. Olcucu, O., Dieckmann, G., Ozmen, M. C., Cox, S., Liu, G., & Hamrah, P. (2024). An exploratory, prospective, interventional, open-label, clinical trial with intranasal neurostimulation for ameliorating symptoms of neuropathic corneal pain. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 65(7), 2658-2658.
6. Hamrah, P., Koseoglu, N. D., & Andrew, B. E. A. M. (2024). U.S. Patent No. 11,998,270. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
7. Abazari, A., Abbouda, A., Cruzat, A., Cavalcanti, B., Pavan-Langston, D., & Hamrah, P. (2024). Corneal reinnervation in patients with severe neurotrophic keratopathy secondary to herpes zoster ophthalmicus after treatment with autologous serum tear drops. Cornea open, 3(1), e0029.
8. Hamrah, P., Massaro-Giordano, M., Schanzlin, D., Holland, E., Berdy, G., Goisis, G., ... & Mantelli, F. (2024). Phase IV multicenter, prospective, open-label clinical trial of cenegermin (rhNGF) for stage 1 neurotrophic keratopathy (DEFENDO). Ophthalmology and Therapy, 13(2), 553-570.
9. Hamrah, P., & Dana, R. (2024). Allergic conjunctivitis: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate Inc.
10. Balbuena-Pareja, A., Bogen, C. S., Cox, S. M., & Hamrah, P. (2023). Effect of recombinant human nerve growth factor treatment on corneal nerve regeneration in patients with neurotrophic keratopathy. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1210179.
11. Shah, R., Spektor, T. M., Weisenberger, D. J., Ding, H., Patil, R., Amador, C., ... & Ljubimov, A. V. (2023). Reversal of dual epigenetic repression of non-canonical Wnt-5a normalises diabetic corneal epithelial wound healing and stem cells. Diabetologia, 66(10), 1943-1958.
12. Gomes, J. A. P., Azar, D. T., Baudouin, C., Bitton, E., Chen, W., Hafezi, F., ... & Willcox, M. D. (2023). TFOS Lifestyle: Impact of elective medications and procedures on the ocular surface. The Ocular Surface, 29, 331-385.
13. Binotti, W., & Hamrah, P. (2023). COVID-19-related conjunctivitis review: clinical features and management. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, 31(4), 778-784.
14. Puri, S., Kenyon, B. M., & Hamrah, P. (2022). Immunomodulatory role of neuropeptides in the cornea. Biomedicines, 10(8), 1985.
15. Dohlman, T. H., McSoley, M., Amparo, F., Carreno-Galeano, T., Wang, M., Dastjerdi, M., ... & Dana, R. (2022). Bevacizumab in high-risk corneal transplantation: a pilot multicenter prospective randomized control trial. Ophthalmology, 129(8), 865-879.
16. Binotti, W. W., Saukkonen, D., Seyed-Razavi, Y., Jamali, A., & Hamrah, P. (2022). Automated image threshold method comparison for conjunctival vessel quantification on optical coherence tomography angiography. Translational Vision Science & Technology, 11(7), 15-15.

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