Liangbo Linus Shen, MD

I am deeply honored to join the Michels family and grateful to my mentors! I grew up in China and came to the U.S. to study biomedical engineering at Duke, where my retina journey began with intraoperative OCT with Joseph Izatt and Cynthia Toth. I earned my MD from Yale, completed ophthalmology residency at UCSF, and am a vitreoretinal surgery fellow at Duke. I will return to UCSF as retina faculty in 2027.

My academic interests span retinal imaging, artificial intelligence, clinical trial design, surgical innovation, device development, and education. At UCSF, I will establish the Precision Retinal Imaging and Machine Learning in Eye Health (PRIME) Lab to improve care and accelerate therapeutic development through imaging research. I hope to build a career integrating patient care, vitreoretinal surgery, innovation, research, and teaching.

In my free time, I enjoy designing models for 3D printing, playing pickleball, and hiking with my wife, Helen.

Original Bio: August 2026