Medical/Surgical Retina-Vitreous Consultant
Partner, South Jersey Eye Physicians 509 South Lenola Road, Suite #11 Moorestown, NJ 08057 August 1997 – Present American Board of Ophthalmology (1992; Re-certified 2002 and 2010: Certification currently active through December 2022) MD State University of New York-Health Science
Center at Syracuse, August 1982- May 1986
BS (Biology) State University of New York at Albany, July 1978- May 1982
Retina-Vitreous Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania,
Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1990- June 1992
Ophthalmology Residency, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, July 1987- June 1990 Transitional Internship, St. Joseph Hospital Health Center Syracuse, New York, June 1986- June 1987
Clinical Associate, Department of Ophthalmology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1992-Present Instructor in Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1990-1992
Clinical Associate, Scheie Eye Institute, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1992-present Virtua- Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly, NJ, 1997- present Presbyterian Hospital /University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990-2005. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990-2005 Mercy Community Hospital, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1992-1997 Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania, 1993-1997 Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania, 1994-1997 Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Darby, Pennsylvania, 1994-1997 Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, 1994-1997 Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995-1997 Attending. Retina Service, Scheie Eye Institute, Department Of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1992 Attending. Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Veterans' Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992 Attending, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1992
1982 Phi Beta Kappa (SUNY -Albany)
1982 Summa Cum Laude (SUNY-Albany)
and Membership in 1984 Dean's Letter of Commendation (SUNY-HSC-Syracuse) American Society of Retina Specialists Retina Society American Academy of Ophthalmology New Jersey Academy of Ophthalmology American Medical Association Medical Society of the State of New Jersey Burlington County (NJ) Medical Society (President, 2005-6) Ophthalmic Club of Philadelphia
1998-Present: Editorial Board, Postgraduate Medicine
2009- Present:Editorial Board, The Physician and Sports Medicine
1991, 1997-present: Scientific Reviewer: Retina, The Journal of Retinal and Vitreous Diseases 2003-Present: Scientific Reviewer, American Journal of Ophthalmology
2010- Present: Editor, “Controversies In Care”, Retinal Physician
1987: Manuscript Reviewer: Grossman ZD, Chew FS, et al. The Clinician's Guide to Diagnostic Imaging (2nd edition)
1988-90: Oral Nadolol versus Topical Timolol In the Treatment of Chronic Open-Angle Glaucoma (Sponsored by Squibb Pharmaceuticals) 1982: Assistant. James Dawson PhD Doctoral Thesis: Kin Selection in Bufo americanus, SUNY-Albany
01/11/92: "Concomitant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis and Toxoplasmic Retinitis in a
Patient with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome." Grand Rounds, Scheie
Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 02/08/92: "Congenital Retinal Disorders" - Retina Symposium, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 08/28/92: " Cilioretinal Artery Occlusion Associated with Central Retinal Vein Occlusion" - Atlantic Coast Vitreoretinal Fluorescein Conference, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 08/27/93: " 'Occult' Macroaneurysms Detected by Indocyanine Green Angiography"- Annual Wills Eye Hospital Retina/ Fluorescein Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 02/28/94: "Diabetic Retinopathy"- Diabetes Symposium, Delaware Valley Medical Center, Langhorne, Pennsylvania 09/23/94: "ICG Angiography Evaluation of RPE Tears"- Annual Wills Eye Hospital Retina/Fluorescein Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
09/22/95: "Idiopathic Retinal Vasculitis, Aneurysms, Neuroretinitis, and Choroiditis"- Annual Wills Eye Hospital Retina/Fluorescein Conference 10/09/95: "Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope" - The Philadelphia Ophthalmic Club 09/20/96: "Idiopathic Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy Distinguished From Choroidal Varices"- Annual Wills Eye Hospital Retina/Fluorescein Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04/11/97: "Submacular Hemorrhage Secondary to Neovascularized Macular Degeneration - Surgical Approach." Annual Scheie Eye Institute/University of Pennsylvania Ophthalmology Alumni Meeting 09/11/98: "Macular Hole Following Ruptured Retinal Arterial Macroaneurysm." Annual Wills Eye Hospital Retina/ Fluorescein conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 01/18/02: “Pseudotumor Cerebri associated with All-Trans Retinoic Acid Treatment of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia”- Atlantic Coast Retina Conference, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 05/30/03: “Two-Port Pars Plana Vitrectomy”—University of Penn/ Scheie Eye Institute 129th Anniversary Meeting 05/22/04: “Vision Loss due to Macular Edema induced by Rosiglitazone treatment of Diabetes Mellitus”—Univ. Penn/Scheie Eye Inst. 130th Anniv. 1/20/2005: “Age-Related Macular Degeneration”—Burlington Co. (NJ) Medical Society. 5/13/2006: “Intravitreal Bevacizumab and Triamcinolone Combination Therapy for Exudative
132nd Anniversary meeting, University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute
9/28/2008: “Intravitreal Bevacizumab and Triamcinolone Combination Therapy for Exudative
Short-term Optical Coherence Tomography Results”, Retina Society 41st Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona
5/21/2010: "Early clinical experience with the intravitreal dexamethasone implant for treatment of macular edema associated with retinal venous occlusive disease", Univ. Penn/Scheie Eye Institute 136th Anniversary meeting
Colucciello M, Hopkins TB, Coyer M. "Controversies in Care": Posterior-segment IOFB Treatment: Timing and Approach. Retinal Physician March 2013. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=108032
Colucciello M. Update on Central Serous Chorioretinopathy. Retinal Physician July 2012. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=107233
Colucciello M, Gragoudas ES, Shields CL. "Controversies in Care": The Value of Systemic Evaluation for Patients with Choroidal Melanoma. Retinal Physician May 2012. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=107027
Colucciello M, Kokame G, Duker J. "Controversies in Care": Does Surgery for Lamellar Macular Holes Offer Distinct Gains? Retinal Physician April 2012. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106907
Colucciello M, Vitale A, deSmet M. "Controversies in Care": Pars Plana Vitrectomy for the Induction of Drug-Free Remission in Uveitis? Retinal Physician March 2012. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106810
Colucciello M, Schmitz-Valckenberg S. “Controversies in Care”: Fundus Autofluorescence Imaging: Illuminating valuable information? Retinal Physician January 2012. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106582
Colucciello M, Antoszyk A, Scott I, Kovach J. “Controversies in Care”: Does “Tomographically Significant Macular Edema” exist? Retinal Physician October 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106235
Colucciello M, Campochiaro P, Jager R, et al. “Controversies in Care”: Comparing Ozurdex and Anti-VEGF for RVO. Retinal Physician September 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106149
Colucciello M, Adamis A, Dugel P, et al. “Controversies in Care”: The CATT’s Whiskers. Retinal Physician July 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=105897
Colucciello M, Moshfeghi A, Pollack J. “Controversies in Care”: Microincisional Vitrectomy Surgery: Gauging the Best Approach. Retinal Physician June 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=105780
Colucciello M, Fekrat S, Marcus D. “Controversies in Care”: Clinical Vignettes in Retinal Vascular Disease and Macular Edema. Retinal Physician April 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=105548
Colucciello M, Regillo C, Thompson J. “Controversies in Care”: “Treat and Extend” Dosing for Wet AMD: Optimal or Daring? Retinal Physician March 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=105396 Colucciello M, D’Amico D, Tornambe P, Ryan E. “Controversies in Care”: Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Repair. Retinal Physician January 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=105155 Colucciello M. "Controversies in Care": Treating macular edema associated with Retinal Venous Occlusive Disease. Retinal Physician November/December 2010; 7 (9): 22-24. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104946 Colucciello M, Sternberg P, Fletcher D, et al. "Controversies in Care": The Merits and Limitations of the Implantable Miniature Telescope for AMD. Retinal Physician October 2010; 7 (8): 18-23. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104846 Colucciello M, Charles S, Thompson J. "Controversies in Care": The role of Indocyanine Green in Macular Hole Surgery. Retinal Physician September 2010; 7 (7). http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104691
Colucciello M, Dunaief J., Will D. "Controversies in Care": Avastin vs. Lucentis for treatment of Neovascular AMD. Retinal Physician July/August 2010; 7 (6): 17- 21. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104525 Colucciello M. Treating Macular Edema. Retinal Physician June 2010; 7 (5): 51-55. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104431
Colucciello M. Central Serous Retinopathy Update: Diagnostic and Treatment Highlights. Retinal Physician 2010 March; 7 (2): 16-20.
http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=104009
Colucciello M. Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment. Physician and Sports Med 2009 June; 37 (2): 59- 65.
http://www.amazon.com/Rhegmatogenous-Detachment-Physician-Sportsmedicine-ebook/dp/B004Y0BOC0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1364262021&sr=8-6&keywords=colucciello
Colucciello M. Central Serous Retinopathy. Retinal Physician 2008 Sept; 5 (7): 26- 34.
http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=102107
Colucciello M. Images in Clinical Medicine. Retinal Arteriolar Cholesterol Emboli. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 Feb 21; 358 (8): 826.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMicm067294
Colucciello M. Intravitreal Bevacizumab and Triamcinolone Acetonide Combination Therapy for Exudative Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Short-Term Optical Coherence Tomography Results.
Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics February 1, 2008, 24(1): 15- 24. doi:10.1089/jop.2007.0080.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jop.2007.0080
Colucciello M. Choroidal neovascularization complicating Photodynamic therapy treatment of central serous retinopathy. Retina 2006;26(2):239-42.
http://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/Citation/2006/02000/Choroidal_Neovascularization_Complicating.27.aspx
Colucciello M. Control of systemic factors can preserve vision in diabetic retinopathy.Diabetic Microvascular Complications Today 2005;2(4):38-43.
http://www.diabeticmctoday.com/HtmlPages/DMC0705/DMC0705_CME.pdf
Colucciello M. Vision Loss from macular edema associated with rosiglitazone treatment of diabetes mellitus. Archives of Ophthalmology 2005;123(9):1273-5.
http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=417229
Colucciello M. Two-Port Pars Plana Vitrectomy. Eye 2005;19(8):869-72. Colucciello M. Retinal vascular disease in hypertension. Postgraduate Medicine 2005; 117 (6): 33-42. http://www.amazon.com/RETINAL-VASCULAR-DISEASE-HYPERTENSION- ebook/dp/B00507CX1C/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1364265166&sr=8- 8&keywords=colucciello Colucciello M. Diabetic retinopathy: control of systemic factors preserves vision. Postgraduate Medicine. 2004; 116(1):57-64. http://www.amazon.com/DIABETIC-RETINOPATHY-preserves-Postgraduate- ebook/dp/B0052OINV2/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1364265166&sr=8- 9&keywords=colucciello Colucciello M. Delamination of the retinal internal limiting membrane using blunt dissection and indocyanine green staining. Retina. 2003; 23 (6): 885-6. http://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/Citation/2003/12000/Delamination_of_the_ Retinal_Internal_Limiting.30.aspx Colucciello M. Pseudotumor Cerebri associated with All-Trans Retinoic Acid Treatment of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2003; 121:1064-5. http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=415469
Colucciello M. Evaluation and Management of Macular Holes. Focal Points, American Academy of Ophthalmology. March 2003. Colucciello M., Nachbar JG. Macular Hole Following Ruptured Retinal Arterial Macroaneurysm. Retina. 2000; 20(1):94-6. http://journals.lww.com/retinajournal/Citation/2000/01000/Macular_Hole_Followin g_Ruptured_Retinal_Arterial.18.aspx Colucciello M., Ginsburg L. "The Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope: A New Frontier for Low Vision Rehabilitation." In: The Essentials of Low Vision, R. Brilliant, editor (1998). Colucciello M. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges: IRVAN Syndrome with Choroiditis? Retina. 1997; 17(4):344-348. Colucciello M., Ginsburg L, Sammartino J. et al. Indocyanine Green Angiographic Evaluation of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Tears. Retina. 1997: 17(1):23-7. Colucciello M., Nauheim R. et al. Juxtafoveal subretinal neovascular membranes associated with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Nassau County Medical Center Proceedings, Summer 1992. Colucciello M. Review: Long-term survival rate after vitreous surgery for complications of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetes Spectrum, June 1991.
Colucciello M, Ryan E. Macular Edema and Thiazolidinediones. Arch Ophthalmol Dec 2010; 128 (12): 1630-1632. Colucciello M. Ocular Lyme Borreliosis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001; 345(18):1350-1. Colucciello, M. Choroidopathy in Suspected Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Retina. 1999; 19(1):88. Colucciello, M. Vision After Photocoagulation for Diabetic Retinopathy. Postgraduate Medicine. 1998; 103(5):37-38.
Lightman D, Colucciello M, Ginsburg L et al. "Surgeon Glove Finger" Gas Delivery System. Ophthalmic Surgery. 1995; 26:188. Colucciello M. Phosphonoformate for CMV Retinitis in AIDS. American Journal of Medicine. 1995; 98:317. Colucciello M, Brucker AJ, Goyal A. Corticosteroids in the treatment of optic neuritis. New England Journal of Medicine. 1992; 327:281.
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Retinal Practice Efficiencies- Contributors Retinal Physician November 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106437 Revisiting DME Retinal Physician November 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106441 AMD Therapy Update Retinal Physician November 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106440 Responding to the big squeeze Retinal Physician November 2011. http://www.retinalphysician.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=106438
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