Jennifer Thorne, MD

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Jennifer Thorne, M.D., Ph.D., is the Cross Family Professor of Ophthalmology and chief of the Division of Ocular Immunology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Thorne holds a joint appointment as professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An internationally recognized ophthalmologist, she is an expert in the evaluation and management of patients with uveitis and other related immune-mediated disorders. Dr. Thorne's research interests include clinical outcomes of non-infectious posterior uveitis such as birdshot chorioretinitis, multifocal choroiditis and punctate inner choroiditis. She also studies juvenile idiopathic arthritis-related uveitis and treatment outcomes of immunosuppressive drug therapy.  Dr. Thorne is a Fellow of the Association of Vision Research in Ophthalmology and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Uveitis Society. Dr. Thorne received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of Pennsylvania's Scheie Eye Institute. She completed her uveitis fellowship at Wilmer and completed her doctorate in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.