Mary G. Lawrence, M.D., M.P.H.

Glaucoma Service

Mary G. Lawrence, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor,
Glaucoma, Cataract, and Visual Rehabilitation
Phone (612) 625-4400, Fax (612) 626-3119
lawre026@umn.edu                   

Born in Austin, Texas, Dr. Lawrence spent her high school years in Madison, Wisconsin, where her parents were both professors at University of Wisconsin Medical School. She received her B.A. in chemistry from Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts and her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Following an internship in pediatrics at the University of Colorado, she completed an ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. After spending a year doing glaucoma specialty training with Dr. Thomas Richardson at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, she spent 2 years in private practice in the Boston area. Dr. Lawrence joined the full-time faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1990 as Director of the Cataract Consultation/General Eye Service at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. While at Harvard she received the Residents' Teacher of the Year Award and the Dean's Commendation for her teaching efforts. In 1994, she was awarded a Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar under the supervision of Drs. Alvan Feinstein and Ralph Horwitz. She also received her M.P.H. from Yale in 1998. Following the fellowship, Dr. Lawrence became the Assistant Chief of Service in the Ophthalmology Department at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York City, an inner-city clinic and an affiliate of Columbia University. She has held leadership positions on state and national committees for eye care.

Dr. Lawrence joined the faculty of the Ophthalmology Department of the Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1997. She is a member of the Glaucoma Service and the Director of Visual Rehabilitation Services at the University.  She is also Associate Chief of Ophthalmology at the Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Medical Center. Her research interests include studying the effectiveness of glaucoma treatment, diabetic retinopathy screening using telemedicine, and the psychosocial impact of visual impairment. She is a comprehensive ophthalmologist with special interest in glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and visual rehabilitation.

Research Interests

• Glaucoma

• Cataract

• Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Technology

• Visual Rehabilitation

Publications

Lawrence, MG (2004) The accuracy of digital-video retinal imaging to screen for diabetic retinopathy: an analysis of two digital-video retinal imaging systems using stanrard stereoscopic seven-field photography and dilated clinical examination as reference standards.  Trans Am Ophthal Soc, 102:321-40.

Cavallerano J, Lawrence MG, et al.: American Telemedicine Association, Ocular Telehealth Special Interest Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology Working Group.  Telehealth practice recommendations for diabetic retinopathy.  Telemedicine J E-Health, 10(4):469-82.

Lawrence, MG. (1997) The Eye, in Gilbert-Barness E., ed. Potter's Pathology of the Fetus and Infant. Mosby, St. Louis, MO, 1482-1521.

Jain VK, Lawrence MG. (1994) Peribulbar Versus Retrobulbar Anesthesia, in Jakobiec FA, Adamis AP, Volpe NJ, eds. International Ophthlamology Clinics:  Controversies in Ophthalmology, vol 34, no 3. Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 33-42.

Mangione CM, Orav EJ, Lawrence MG, Phillips RS, Seddon JM, Goldman L. (1995) Predicting Visual Function After Cataract Extraction:  A Prospectively Validated Model.  ArchOph 113:1305-1311.

Lawrence MG. (1993) Extracapsular Cataract Extraction, in Albert DM, Jakobiec FA, eds. Principles and Practices of Ophthalmology: Clinical Practice. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pa, 621-640.

Mangione CM, Russell SP, Lawrence MD, Seddon MS, Orav EJ, Goldman L. (1994) Improved visual function and attenuation of declines in health-related quality of life after cataract extraction. Arch Ophthalmol 112:1419-1425.