University of California San Francisco
About UCSFUCSF Medical Center
Home > Doctors > Jacque Duncan

Jacque Duncan, MD

Retinal specialist

Dr. Jacque Duncan is an ophthalmologist who specializes in treating retinal degenerative diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa, which affects one in 3,500 people worldwide, and age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over age 50. Both conditions run in families and have no cure. In addition, her expertise includes diagnosing and treating retinal diseases such as Usher syndrome (an inherited disorder that affects both vision and hearing), cone-rod dystrophy (an inherited disorder in which the retina's light-sensitive cells deteriorate) and Stargardt disease (a form of macular degeneration that develops in childhood). She is skilled in using experimental techniques to prevent or slow these conditions.

In her research, Duncan is studying treatments to preserve vision as well as devices to stimulate visual perception. She has received research funding from Research to Prevent Blindness, the Karl Kirchgessner Foundation, Hope for Vision and the American Geriatrics Society, in addition to receiving a Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Duncan earned her medical degree at UCSF, where she also completed an ophthalmology residency. She then completed a medical retina fellowship at the Penn Medicine Scheie Eye Institute, where she focused on patients with age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degeneration. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2000.

Clinics

Pediatric Ophthalmology
1825 Fourth St., Fifth Floor, Suite M5324
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-2800

More about Jacque Duncan

Education

UCSF School of Medicine 1995

Residencies

UCSF, Ophthalmology 1999

Fellowships

Scheie Eye Institute, Medical Retina 2000

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Flores Pimentel MA, De la Huerta I, Duncan JL, Slavotinek AM, Moore AT, de Alba Campomanes AG. PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY IN A FAMILY WITH X-LINKED FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY WITH PREVENTION OF VISUAL LOSS IN AN AFFECTED MALE CHILD WITH LASER TREATMENT IN INFANCY. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2018 Aug 01.
  2. Duncan JL, Pierce EA, Laster AM, Daiger SP, Birch DG, Ash JD, Iannaccone A, Flannery JG, Sahel JA, Zack DJ, Zarbin MA. Inherited Retinal Degenerations: Current Landscape and Knowledge Gaps. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2018 Jul; 7(4):6.
  3. Lew YJ, Rinella N, Qin J, Chiang J, Moore AT, Porco TC, Roorda A, Duncan JL. High-resolution Imaging in Male Germ Cell-Associated Kinase (MAK)-related Retinal Degeneration. Am J Ophthalmol. 2018 Jan; 185:32-42.
  4. LaVail MM, Nishikawa S, Steinberg RH, Naash MI, Duncan JL, Trautmann N, Matthes MT, Yasumura D, Lau-Villacorta C, Chen J, Peterson WM, Yang H, Flannery JG. Phenotypic characterization of P23H and S334ter rhodopsin transgenic rat models of inherited retinal degeneration. Exp Eye Res. 2018 Feb; 167:56-90.
  5. Gustafson K, Duncan JL, Biswas P, Soto-Hermida A, Matsui H, Jakubosky D, Suk J, Telenti A, Frazer KA, Ayyagari R. Correction: Gustafson et al., Whole Genome Sequencing Revealed Mutations in Two Independent Genes as the Underlying Cause of Retinal Degeneration in an Ashkenazi Jewish Pedigree. Genes 2017, 8, 210. Genes (Basel). 2017 Oct 23; 8(10).
  6. Gustafson K, Duncan JL, Biswas P, Soto-Hermida A, Matsui H, Jakubosky D, Suk J, Telenti A, Frazer KA, Ayyagari R. Whole Genome Sequencing Revealed Mutations in Two Independent Genes as the Underlying Cause of Retinal Degeneration in an Ashkenazi Jewish Pedigree. Genes (Basel). 2017 Aug 24; 8(9).
  7. Tu JH, Foote KG, Lujan BJ, Ratnam K, Qin J, Gorin MB, Cunningham ET, Tuten WS, Duncan JL, Roorda A. Dysflective cones: Visual function and cone reflectivity in long-term follow-up of acute bilateral foveolitis. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2017 Sep; 7:14-19.
  8. Oatts JT, Duncan JL, Hoyt CS, Slavotinek AM, Moore AT. Inner retinal dystrophy in a patient with biallelic sequence variants in BRAT1. Ophthalmic Genet. 2017 12; 38(6):559-561.
  9. Duncan JL. Visual Consequences of Delivering Therapies to the Subretinal Space. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017 Mar 01; 135(3):242-243.
  10. Sánchez LR, Oatts JT, Duncan JL, Packman S, Moore AT. Ocular findings in a patient with fucosidosis. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2016 Dec; 4:83-86.
  11. Duncan JL, Richards TP, Arditi A, da Cruz L, Dagnelie G, Dorn JD, Ho AC, Olmos de Koo LC, Barale PO, Stanga PE, Thumann G, Wang Y, Greenberg RJ. Improvements in vision-related quality of life in blind patients implanted with the Argus II Epiretinal Prosthesis. Clin Exp Optom. 2017 Mar; 100(2):144-150.
  12. Alavi MV, Mao M, Pawlikowski BT, Kvezereli M, Duncan JL, Libby RT, John SW, Gould DB. Col4a1 mutations cause progressive retinal neovascular defects and retinopathy. Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 27; 6:18602.
  13. Zayit-Soudry S, Sippl-Swezey N, Porco TC, Lynch SK, Syed R, Ratnam K, Menghini M, Roorda AJ, Duncan JL. Repeatability of Cone Spacing Measures in Eyes With Inherited Retinal Degenerations. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Sep 01; 56(10):6179-89.
  14. Lujan BJ, Roorda A, Croskrey JA, Dubis AM, Cooper RF, Bayabo JK, Duncan JL, Antony BJ, Carroll J. DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY PROVIDES ACCURATE OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER AND HENLE FIBER LAYER MEASUREMENTS. Retina. 2015 Aug; 35(8):1511-20.
  15. Horton JC, Parker AB, Botelho JV, Duncan JL. Spontaneous Regeneration of Human Photoreceptor Outer Segments. Sci Rep. 2015 Jul 27; 5:12364.
  16. Kuo DS, Ou Y, Jeng BH, Bhisitkul R, Stewart JM, Duncan JL, Han Y. Correlation of Serial Scleral and Corneal Pneumatonometry. Ophthalmology. 2015 Sep; 122(9):1771-6.
  17. Wang Q, Tuten WS, Lujan BJ, Holland J, Bernstein PS, Schwartz SD, Duncan JL, Roorda A. Adaptive optics microperimetry and OCT images show preserved function and recovery of cone visibility in macular telangiectasia type 2 retinal lesions. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Jan 13; 56(2):778-86.
  18. Menghini M, Lujan BJ, Zayit-Soudry S, Syed R, Porco TC, Bayabo K, Carroll J, Roorda A, Duncan JL. Correlation of outer nuclear layer thickness with cone density values in patients with retinitis pigmentosa and healthy subjects. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 Dec 16; 56(1):372-81.
  19. Mak AC, Pullinger CR, Tang LF, Wong JS, Deo RC, Schwarz JM, Gugliucci A, Movsesyan I, Ishida BY, Chu C, Poon A, Kim P, Stock EO, Schaefer EJ, Asztalos BF, Castellano JM, Wyss-Coray T, Duncan JL, Miller BL, Kane JP, Kwok PY, Malloy MJ. Effects of the absence of apolipoprotein e on lipoproteins, neurocognitive function, and retinal function. JAMA Neurol. 2014 Oct; 71(10):1228-36.
  20. Duncan JL, Biswas P, Kozak I, Navani M, Syed R, Soudry S, Menghini M, Caruso RC, Jeffrey BG, Heckenlively JR, Reddy GB, Lee P, Roorda A, Ayyagari R. Ocular Phenotype of a Family with FAM161A-associated Retinal Degeneration. Ophthalmic Genet. 2016; 37(1):44-52.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions to their publications by logging on to UCSF Profiles.