Suhsun Liu
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, CO·Public Health & Epidemiology
Dry eye is a common disease of the tear film and the surface of the eye. It lowers quality of life, is one of the most frequent reasons people seek eye care, and is costly for society.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
dry eye disease
ocular surface
tear film
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Aug 2026
What they work on
- Identify social factors, such as race and ethnicity and preferred language spoken, linked to differential access to care and prognosis in dry eye, using electronic health records from the Sue Anschutz-Rogers Eye Center.
- Build multivariable prognostic models that combine many routinely recorded patient factors to estimate each person's risk of dry eye progressing over a 2-year period, including barriers to accessing care.
- Quantify geographic variation in how social determinants of health affect dry eye prognosis, using multi-center records from the SOURCE Consortium covering more than 4 million unique patients.
- Externally validate the single-center prediction models in other centers, accounting for center-specific factors such as the density of eye care professionals.
More about the research
People do not all get the same diagnosis, treatment or outcomes. Social determinants of health, the conditions where people are born, live, work and age, may help explain who receives care and whose disease worsens. A systematic review by the team, an organized survey of past studies, found gaps in what is known about these factors in dry eye.
Why it matters
The models could give clinicians personalized risk estimates for patients with dry eye using information already sitting in health records. Evidence on which social factors drive unequal access and outcomes may guide intervention programs that reduce disparities in dry eye care, and could improve long-term outcomes and quality of life for people living with the disease.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus: 41 labs on PI Pages, $766M a year on research, 205 research doctorates a year.
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