Dr. John B. Miller
Director of Retinal Imaging
Director of Vitreoretinal Fellow Wet Lab
Co-Director of Harvard Vitrectomy Course
Associate Director, Vitreoretinal Fellowship
Harvard Ophthalmology
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Through imaging research, John hopes to provide earlier diagnosis, prognosis, and disease sub-classification through new biomarkers of both vision threatening conditions and systemic neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. As a retina fellow, he brought an investigational Swept Source OCT research platform to Mass. Eye and Ear and Harvard. Swept Source OCT uses a longer wavelength to provide higher resolution and deeper penetration of ocular tissues. With this device, he has completed several projects furthering our understanding of the choroid, a highly vascularized tissue deep to the heavily studied retina.
Beyond John’s work with swept source OCT, he has added the use of OCT-Angiography, a non-invasive OCT based mapping of retinal and choroidal blood vessels, to the retinal imaging capabilities at Mass. Eye and Ear. With OCT-angiography, his team has explored retinal disease and other more rare but visually critical conditions like posterior uveitis and optic neuropathies. With neurologists at MGH, the team has also launched new collaborations to study the use of OCT as a more readily accessible biomarker of patients with neurodegenerative diseases.