Van Nguyen, MD

Dr. Van Nguyen obtained his MD from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He then completed ophthalmology residency at the University of Missouri and a glaucoma fellowship at the University of Southern California where he had the opportunity to remain as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology. Dr. Nguyen specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cataracts as well as the various types of primary and secondary glaucoma. His treatment techniques include traditional glaucoma drainage devices and trabeculectomy as well as newer technologies and devices of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, depending on the patient’s needs. Having immigrated to the United States from rural Vietnam as a child, Dr. Nguyen maintains many ties to rural Vietnam and has a particular interest in global ophthalmology and increasing access to care in order to decrease the burden of the two leading causes of blindness in adults worldwide: cataracts and glaucoma.

• ASCRS: Third Place in Residents and Fellows Posters, 2020
• ASCRS: Best Paper of Session in Inflammation, Pain, Infection, 2019
• Gold Humanism Honor Society: Nominated, 2015
• LSU School of Medicine: Disadvantaged Scholarship Award, 2012-2017
• LSU: Foundation for the LSU Health Sciences Center Merit Scholarship, 2012-2013

• Comparative Performance of Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 Family Models on Ophthalmology Board-Style Questions. Ophthalmol Sci. 2026 May; 6(5):101145.. View in PubMed
• Comparison of RETFound and a Supervised Convolutional Neural Network for Detection of Referable Glaucoma from Fundus Photographs. Ophthalmol Sci. 2026 Feb; 6(2):101008.. View in PubMed
• Ocular Biometric Predictors of Corneal Endothelial Contact by Intracameral Implants for Open-Angle Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2025 Dec 01; 14(12):35.. View in PubMed
• OpenAI o1 Large Language Model Outperforms GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Flash, and Human Test Takers on Ophthalmology Board-Style Questions. Ophthalmol Sci. 2025 Nov-Dec; 5(6):100844.. View in PubMed
• Comparison of Foundation and Supervised Learning-Based Models for Detection of Referable Glaucoma from Fundus Photographs. medRxiv. 2025 Aug 24.. View in PubMed
• A comparative analysis of DeepSeek R1, DeepSeek-R1-Lite, OpenAi o1 Pro, and Grok 3 performance on ophthalmology board-style questions. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 02; 15(1):23101.. View in PubMed
• Comparison of Deep Learning and Clinician Performance for Detecting Referable Glaucoma from Fundus Photographs in a Safety Net Population. Ophthalmol Sci. 2025 Jul-Aug; 5(4):100751.. View in PubMed
• Advances and Challenges in Wearable Glaucoma Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Bioengineering (Basel). 2024 Jan 30; 11(2).. View in PubMed
• Identifying, Understanding, and Addressing Disparities in Glaucoma Care in the United States. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2023 10 03; 12(10):18.. View in PubMed
• Targeted overexpression of amelotin disrupts the microstructure of dental enamel. PLoS One. 2012; 7(4):e35200.. View in PubMed

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