Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen

Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen
University of Oxford | OX

MDCM

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Introduction
I am a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto, on the Surgeon-Scientist track. Currently, I am pursuing a DPhil in Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the University of Oxford's Kennedy Institute as a Rhodes Scholar and KTPS Fellow. I completed my medical training at McGill University as a national TD Scholar, where I received the Dr. Mark Cohen Graduation Prize in Ophthalmology.

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Purpose: While cannabis has the potential to reduce corneal pain, cannabinoids might induce side effects. This review article examines the effects of cannabinoids on the cornea. As more states and countries consider the legalization of adult cannabis use, health-care providers will need to identify ocular effects of cannabis consumption. Methods: S...
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Objective Since the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a public health emergency, medical societies around the world published COVID-19 recommendations to physicians to ensure patient care and physician safety. During this pandemic, ophthalmologists around the world adapted their clinical and surgical practice following such guidelines. This ori...
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Purpose To assess the gender distribution of major ophthalmology society awards. Design Retrospective, observational study. Methods The study population included award recipients from nine ophthalmological societies: American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), American Glaucoma...
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Importance Recommendations of clinical guidelines affect physicians’ care delivery. Potential bias and undeclared conflicts of interests (COIs) among guideline authors can impact clinical practice decisions. Objective To assess financial disclosures reported by physician authors of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Practice Pattern Guide...
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Intraocular malignant tumors are rare; however, they can cause serious life-threatening complications. Uveal melanoma (UM) and retinoblastoma (RB) are the most common intraocular tumors in adults and children, respectively, and come with a great disease burden. For many years, several different treatment modalities for UM and RB have been proposed,...
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Cannabis is the most used drug worldwide with an estimated 219 million users. This narrative review aims to explore the adverse effects and therapeutic applications of cannabis and cannabinoids on the eye, given its growing clinical and non-clinical uses. The current literature reports several adverse ocular effects of cannabis and cannabinoids, in...
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Purpose This cross-sectional study evaluated the prevalence of inclusive author submission guidelines across ophthalmology journals. Methods Journals were identified from the 2021 Journal Citations Report (Clarivate Analytics). Independent reviewers rated each author submission guideline as “inclusive” for satisfying at-least one of six criteria:...
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Background In Canada, there is a recognized underrepresentation of women in the field of surgery. However, the extent to which this trend applies across various surgical specialties is not well delineated. The aim of this study is to identify existing disparities and trends over time to inform the need for future interventions to make the match pro...
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Background Artificial intelligence (AI) in skin cancer is a promising research field to assist physicians and to provide support to patients remotely. Physicians’ awareness to new developments in AI research is important to define the best practices and scope of integrating AI-enabled technologies within a clinical setting. Objectives To analyze t...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the research productivity and gender of award recipients of ophthalmology research awards in international societies. Methods This is a retrospective, observational study. The study population included award recipients of research awards from 36 ophthalmologic societies (listed on the International Co...
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Background Although women remain historically underrepresented in medical achievement awards, gender distribution of award recipients in ophthalmology in Canada remain to be explored based on research productivity metrics. Objective To characterize the gender distribution of award recipients among the main Canadian national ophthalmological societ...
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Purpose We examined the gender distribution and academic productivity of North American ophthalmology societies' board members. Methods Cross-sectional and retrospective study of board members on American and Canadian ophthalmology societies. In December 2022, data was gathered from society webpages, online archives, and the Scopus database for pub...
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The Canadian Ophthalmology Student Interest Group (COSIG) is the first national medical student–led specialty interest group in Canada. COSIG has run several initiatives aimed at increasing students’ opportunities for ophthalmology exposure and learning, including a resident-medical student mentorship program, an annual 6-week introductory course,...
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28. The impact of a surgical boot camp and near-peer teaching on the acquisition of basic surgical skills in medical students transitioning to clerkship
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Background and Objectives While benefitting from neuroradiologists' reports, neurologists use their own image interpretation to guide clinical decisions, especially in acute care settings. This calls for robust neuroradiology training in neurology residency, informed by current educational gaps and practices. This study aims to (1) characterize the...
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Implication Statement Podcasts are an increasingly popular medical education modality, especially in surgical fields. However, the cost of developing a high-quality medical education podcast presents a barrier to many content creators. The authors developed the podcast series ‘The Lenspod,’ designed to be a cost-efficient but high-quality education...
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Implication Statement We share our experience of organizing a one-day virtual educational event, the first Canadian national student ophthalmology conference, in response to the need for ophthalmology career exploration. The conference included mentorship with residents, research presentations, keynote speakers, and more. Following the event, stude...
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Importance: Despite increasing use of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and related health effects among youth, few studies have reported their effects on eyes. Objective: To examine the frequency and severity of ocular symptoms (ocular discomfort, pain, burning, itching, redness, dryness, glare, blurriness, strain, and headach...
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Introduction: Competency in interpreting genitourinary (GU) imaging is an important skill for urologists; however, no nationally accredited GU imaging curriculum exists for Canadian urology residency training programs. The main objectives of our study were to 1) characterize GU imaging training in Canada; (2) evaluate residents' self-perceived com...
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Background: Social media (SoMe) is an integral part of life in the 21st century. Its potential for rapid dissemination and amplification of information offers opportunities for neuro-ophthalmologists to have an outsized voice to share expert-level knowledge with the public, other medical professionals, policymakers, and trainees. However, there ar...
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Introduction In recent decades, ophthalmology exposure in medical school has been increasingly reduced. In turn, medical students have expressed concern over their ophthalmic skills. Research investigating the status of ophthalmology education in U.S. undergraduate medical curricula is limited to institutional data devoid of the student or resident...
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Purpose Late-onset retinal degeneration (L-ORD) is a rare retinal dystrophy with anterior segment (AS) abnormalities, including long anterior zonules (LAZ) and iris atrophy. This investigation evaluates AS changes in a L-ORD cohort. Methods Prospective, longitudinal study including L-ORD individuals (Ser163Arg) with ocular exam and standard slit-l...
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Background This study assesses the impact of the Interprofessional Global Health Course (IPGHC) on students’ fundamental global health knowledge and personal viewpoints on global health domains. It explores the evolution of students’ understanding of global health specifically in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Ninety-nine students were...
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Purpose: Find what characteristics of glaucoma physicians are associated with higher online ratings. Patents and Methods: All American members of the American Glaucoma Society (AGS) were queried on Healthgrades, Vitals, and Yelp. Ratings, medical school ranking, region of practice, gender, age, and wait times were recorded. Results: 1106 (78.2...
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Plasma cell dyscrasias are a wide range of severe monoclonal gammopathies caused by pre-malignant or malignant plasma cells that over-secrete an abnormal monoclonal antibody. These disorders are associated with various systemic findings, including ophthalmological disorders. A search of PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus and Cochrane databases was performed in...
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Background Low-income and racially diverse populations often have multiple barriers in accessing healthcare and are at increased risk of poor health outcomes. COVID-19 exacerbated these health inequities: decreased in-person appointments, difficult access to virtual care and deprioritization of elective clinical activity led to delays in well-child...
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Purpose Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are an emerging frontier in teleophthalmology, drawing on heuristic decision-making to augment processes such as triage and referral. We describe the development and implementation of a novel cloud-based decision tree CDSS for on-call ophthalmology consults. The objective was to standardize the triag...
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Implication Statement Medical students have a wide range of opinions and expectations about research and face many challenges when pursuing it. Online research webinars have the potential to teach medical students about the value of research for various competitive and non-competitive specialties, while also providing them with the opportunity to n...
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LOW-INCOME, RACIALLY DIVERSE POPULATIONS IN THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM In 2019, 10.1% of Canadians lived below the national poverty line (1). This percentage is greater among immigrants who arrived in Canada within the last 10 years (17.4%) (1). Poverty is a health issue: lower income is associated with poorer health outcomes, such as shorter...
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Background Imbalances in global health authorship have previously been documented, but the extent of the problem has yet to be examined longitudinally across many journals. This paper investigates the gender (2002-2020) and geographic distribution (2014-2020) of authors publishing in peer-reviewed global health journals. We also examined the amount...
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Objective To evaluate perceptions of blade- versus laser-based blepharoplasty before and after being provided educational information. Design/Participants/Methods This interventional pre–post study included 145 randomly selected participants (Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, Canada, August 2020) who were asked about their perceptions surro...
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Background:. Upper and lower blepharoplasty are among the most common procedures in aesthetic surgery and are often emotionally laden due to the subjective nature of outcomes and implications with beauty and self-identity. This article capitalizes on the increasing wealth of patient-provided health information online and is the first to analyze the...
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The Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has reshaped academic conferencing and the experience for many research students and trainees. Scientific associations have adapted to new public health restrictions by adopting virtual conferences to maintain the dissemination of knowledge. The Vision Health Research Network (VHRN) has brought its annual meeti...
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Introduction: In the past year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person clinical activities have been drastically restricted, driving the already growing interest in the use of telemedicine in the urban setting to reduce unnecessary commute. Therefore, there has been a rapid shift to telephone and video consultations in outpatient practice. We sou...
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Gender disparity in the field of neurology impedes scientific advancements and innovations. In 2018, 45.0% of neurology and neurological subspecialty residents were women. Despite a notable rise in the proportion of women neurologists over the past decades, inequalities regarding publication proportions between men and women persist in the field. T...
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Purpose: Despite increasing numbers of women oculoplastic surgeons, they remain underrepresented within the subspecialty. The purpose of this study was to analyze trends in gender authorship within the field of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery. Methods: This retrospective observational study sampled articles published in Ophthalmic...
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Implication Statement The Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) Incubator is a social impact venture that gives medical and other health care students the opportunity to develop initiatives that sustainably promote health equity for, and in partnership with, community partners and historically marginalized communities. Students learn how to...
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OBJECTIVE Medical trainees often report barriers to their active engagement with academic medical literature. We assessed whether subscription to The Lens, a weekly newsletter summarizing recent ophthalmology literature, improved readers’ knowledge of the literature. DESIGN The implementation, uptake, and feasibility of The Lens are described. To...
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic increased the gender gap in academic publishing. This study assesses COVID-19’s impact on ophthalmology gender authorship distribution and compares the gender authorship proportion of COVID-19 ophthalmology-related articles to previous ophthalmology articles. Methods This cohort study includes authors listed in all...
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Purpose: It has been suggested that retinal blood vessel arborization (RBVA) is unique to each individual. We examined this claim in a pedigree that included two pairs of monozygotic twins. Methods: Fundus photographs were taken of subjects belonging to this pedigree to compare the pattern of their RBVA. Pattern prevalence within the general pop...
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Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges for oculoplastic surgeons worldwide, in terms of care delivery, medical equipment and at-risk patient management. To date, there are no centralized or compiled international COVID-19 guidelines for oculoplastic surgeons. Methods: We examined COVID-19 guidelines published by ocul...
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BACKGROUND Clinical data present in social media is an underused source of information with great potential to allow for a deeper understanding of patient values, attitudes and preferences. OBJECTIVE We describe a novel and broadly applicable method for sentiment analysis and emotion detection to free text from online medical health forums and the...
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Background Clinical data in social media are an underused source of information with great potential to allow for a deeper understanding of patient values, attitudes, and preferences. Objective This tutorial aims to describe a novel, robust, and modular method for the sentiment analysis and emotion detection of free text from web-based forums and t...
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Background Very-early-onset inflammatory bowel disease (VEOIBD) refers to an IBD diagnosis established before the 6th year of life, including a subset of patients with disease onset before the age of 2 years, known as infantile-onset IBD (IO-IBD) (1). VEO-IBD accounts for 15% of pediatric IBD and infantile IBD in approximately 1% (2,3). VEOIBD is c...
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Cannabis is the most consumed illicit drug worldwide. As more countries consider bills that would legalize adult use of cannabis, health care providers, including eye care professionals (ophthalmologists, optometrists), will need to recognize ocular effects of cannabis consumption in patients. There are only 20 studies on the eyelid effects of cann...
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Prior to CHASM, there was no support structure for student initiatives that directly addressed the social inequities studied in class. CHASM allows students to develop their advocacy and project development skills, providing them with an unprecedented educational opportunity and the necessary community network to create actionable ideas. Initial co...
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The Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) Incubator is a medical student-run, interprofessional venture that improves the health outcomes of local, marginalized communities.

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