Lab Overview
The laboratory of clinician-scientist Brian C. Stagg, MD, focuses on informatics, artificial intelligence applications in health care, and health care delivery research to improve outcomes for patients. Current research areas include:
- Using clinical decision-support systems to enhance clinical decision-making and ensure that patients receive appropriate glaucoma and other care.
- Improving access to glaucoma and other eye care through outreach initiatives and community health partners.
- Glaucoma monitoring and personalized treatment plans, home and virtual testing devices.
Stagg Lab Research
Research Interests
- Clinical decision support in glaucoma
- Personalized medicine
- Health informatics
- Population health
Current Studies
- Comparing Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Acquisition Efficiency
- Improving Glaucoma Care Using a Scalable Decision Support System
- Assessing Diurnal IOP Rhythms: GAT vs iCare HOME
- Surveying User Experience with a Novel Head-mounted Visual Field Perimeter
- Surveying User Experience with Multiple Virtual Reality Visual Field Platforms
How Does Our Research Help Patients?
Dr. Stagg is a glaucoma specialist and health services researcher whose career has focused on improving clinical decision-making and care delivery for patients with glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve. Without treatment, optic nerve damage can lead to vision loss and eventually blindness.
He discovered his passion for research while in medical school at the University of Utah, where he spent over 2,000 hours studying ocular angiogenesis. During ophthalmology residency at Utah, his work in Dr. Randall Olson’s lab centered on advancing the safety and efficacy of cataract surgery technologies, supported by grants from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Foundation and the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation.
His growing interest in how healthcare systems impact patient outcomes led him to pursue the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, where he trained with leading NEI-funded health services researchers, Drs. Paul Lee and Joshua Stein, and he later earned a Master of Health and Healthcare Research focused on big data and healthcare delivery.
After completing a glaucoma fellowship at Duke University with Dr. Felipe Medeiros, where he investigated predictive modeling of glaucoma progression, Dr. Stagg returned to the University of Utah as a faculty member.
His current research bridges data science, health services research, and implementation science to bring predictive and decision-support tools into real-world clinical practice to improve outcomes for patients with glaucoma.
Training the Next Generation of Clinician-Scientists
Dr. Stagg co-directs the Alan S. Crandall Center for Glaucoma Innovation's glaucoma research fellowship at the John A. Moran Eye Center. He also co-directs the NIH Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) in Eye Health and Disease.
Updates From the Lab
Turning Big Data into Better Care
New tools can help glaucoma doctors analyze patient data to provide precision medicine tailored to each patient.
Crandall Center Initiatives in Action
The Alan S. Crandall Center for Glaucoma Innovation, led by Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed, MD, FRCSC, was created at the John A. Moran Eye Center to lead the field in four high-impact initiatives.
Contact Us
Brian Stagg, MD, principal investigator