Biographical Info

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Co-Director, Uveitis Service

Mailing Address:
Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary
1855 W. Taylor Street, M/C 648
Chicago, IL 60612

Sees Patients at:

Specialty Care Building (SCB)
Uveitis Service
Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service
1009 S. Wood St.
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312.996.EYES (3937)

Schedule an Appointment

Millennium Park Eye Center (MPEC)
30 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 410
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone:  (312) 996-2020

Dr. Lobo’s clinical and research efforts are focused on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with ocular inflammatory and infectious diseases, including anterior, intermediate and posterior uveitis and scleritis.  Her clinical interests include diagnostic testing in infectious uveitis, pediatric uveitis, and novel treatments for ocular inflammatory disease.  Dr. Lobo has served as the principal investigator for several multi-center international clinical trials involving the use of novel therapies for the treatment of non-infectious uveitis. Her research interests include factors related to the development and severity of infectious uveitis, the morbidity of childhood uveitis, and the use of biologic response modifier therapies in the treatment of uveitis.

Dr. Lobo completed her residency in Ophthalmology and fellowship in Ocular Immunology and Uveitis in the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She was on the full-time faculty in the Uveitis Service at Harvard Medical School from 2010-2015.  Dr. Lobo joined the UIC faculty in September 2015.

Dr. Lobo is the director of the UIC uveitis/medical retina fellowship. She is a section editor for a number of scientific journals, including Survey of Ophthalmology and Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. She serves on various committees for professional organizations, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Board of Ophthalmology. Dr. Lobo is board certified in ophthalmology.

Education

Medical School—Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
Residency—Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
Fellowship in Ocular Immunology and Uveitis—Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
Masters of Science in Epidemiology – UIC School of Public Health

See a representative list of Dr. Lobo’s published journal articles in PubMed.

Honors

Castle Connolly Top Doctor
Best Doctors in America

Selected Publications

Gupta, M., Jardeleza, M.S.R., Kim, I., Durand, M., Kim, L., and Lobo, A.M. Varicella zoster virus necrotizing retinitis in two patients with Idiopathic CD4 Lymphocytopenia. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 2015. Epub ahead of print.

Papavasileiou, E., Prasad, S., Freitag, S.K., Sobrin, L., Lobo, A-M. Ipilimumab-induced ocular and orbital inflammation. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 2015 Aug 24:1-7.

Vodopivec, I., Lobo, A.M., and Prasad, S. Ocular inflammation in neuro-rheumatic disease. Seminars in Neurology. 2014 Sep;34(4):444-57.

Lobo, A.M. Anterior chamber biopsy. In: Eliott and Rao (eds), Surgical management of intraocular inflammation and infection. London: JP Medical, 2013: 33-40.

William, M., Faez, S., Papaliodis, G.N., Lobo, A.M. Golimumab for the treatment of refractory juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated uveitis. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2012 Dec; 2(4):231-3.

Hunter, R.S., and Lobo, A.M. Dexamethasone intravitreal implant for the treatment of noninfectious uveitis. Clinical Ophthalmology 2011;5:1613-1621.

Lobo, A.M., Stacy, R., Cestari, D., Stone, J.H., Jakobiec, F.A., Sobrin, L. Optic nerve involvement with panuveitis in Sweet syndrome. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 2011 Jun;19(3):167-70.

Li, J.Z., Tucker, J.D., Lobo, A.M., Marra, C.M., Davis, B.T., Papaliodis, G.N., Felsenstein, D., Durand, M.L., Yawetz, S., Robbins, G.K. Ocular syphilis in HIV-positive individuals. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Aug 15;51(4): 468-71.