Xiang Werdich, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Xiang Q. Werdich is a medical retina specialist and comprehensive ophthalmologist. She provides comprehensive eye care with expertise in retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal inflammatory diseases and inherited retinal degenerations, and she is also a surgeon who does intravitreal injections, retinal laser procedures, photodynamic therapies, and cataract surgeries.
She holds a PhD in cell and developmental biology, and her dissertation was focused on retinal neovascularization and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy. She completed an ophthalmology residency at Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute and subspecialty training in medical retina at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, UK and inherited retinal degenerations and pediatric medical retina at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and Boston Children’s Hospital
Publications
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Published 1/1/2015
Chen X, Jakobiec FA, Yadav P, Werdich XQ, Fay A. Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome with isolated unilateral eyelid edema: an immunopathologic study. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2015; 31(3):e70-7. PMID: 24853119.
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Published 7/15/2014
Werdich XQ, Jakobiec FA, Curtin HD, Fay A. A clinical, radiologic, and immunopathologic study of five periorbital intraosseous cavernous vascular malformations. Am J Ophthalmol. 2014 Oct; 158(4):816-826.e1. PMID: 25034115.
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Published 1/1/2014
Werdich XQ, Place EM, Pierce EA. Systemic diseases associated with retinal dystrophies. Semin Ophthalmol. 2014; 29(5-6):319-28. PMID: 25325857.
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Published 12/17/2013
Jakobiec FA, Werdich XQ, Chodosh J, Freitag SK. An analysis of conjunctival and periocular venous malformations: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features with a comparison of racemose and cirsoid lesions. Surv Ophthalmol. 2014; 59(2):236-44. PMID: 24355066.
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Published 12/10/2013
Jakobiec FA, Werdich X. Androgen receptor identification in the diagnosis of eyelid sebaceous carcinomas. Am J Ophthalmol. 2014 Mar; 157(3):687-96.e1-2. PMID: 24333189.
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