Dr. Brian P. Marr, MD

Expert Publications

• Clinical factors in the identification of small choroidal melanoma.
• Changing concepts in management of circumscribed choroidal hemangioma: the 2003 J. Howard Stokes Lecture, Part 1.
• Chemoreduction with topical mitomycin C prior to resection of extensive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva.
• Aggressive retinal astrocytomas in four patients with tuberous sclerosis complex.
• Optical coherence tomography of choroidal nevus in 120 patients.
• Aggressive retinal astrocytomas in 4 patients with tuberous sclerosis complex.
• Resolution of advanced cystoid macular edema following photodynamic therapy for choroidal hemangioma.
• Retinal racemose hemangioma.
• Photoreceptor loss overlying congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium by optical coherence tomography.
• Two discrete uveal melanomas in a child with ocular melanocytosis.
• Solitary intraosseous orbital myofibroma in four cases.
• Orbital-conjunctival glomangiomas involving two ocular rectus muscles.
• Chromosome 3 analysis of uveal melanoma using fine-needle aspiration biopsy at the time of plaque radiotherapy in 140 consecutive cases: the Deborah Iverson, MD, Lectureship.
• Resolution of exudative retinal detachment from retinal astrocytoma following photodynamic therapy.
• Pigmented free-floating vitreous cyst in a child.

Media Releases

Get to know Ophthalmologist Dr. Brian P. Marr, who serves the population of New York, New York and the surrounding regions. Dr. Marr graduated with his Medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine. After obtaining his internship with the Crozer-Chester Medical Center, followed by his Ophthalmology Residency with the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Wanting to further his training he then completed his Ocular Oncology Fellowship with the Wills Eye Hospital and worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before becoming the chief of ocular oncology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Marr is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. Dr. Marr currently heads the Ophthalmic Oncology Service at the Harkness Eye Institute, additionally he is a Professor of Ophthalmology with the Columbia University Medical Center and Cornell University Medical Center as well as being an alumni of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, where he holds an expertise in Uveal Melanoma, Retinoblastoma, Ocular Surface Cancer, Orbital and Eyelid tumors and Eye Vision Care. To stay up to date in his field, he remains a professional member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Marr is a collaborator on a Columbia University clinical trial for a first-of-its-kind, new class of drug treatment for uveal melanoma. Dr. Marr lectures and consults across the US and abroad, and has authored numerous research articles in the field of ocular oncology. He is the principal investigator in a first-in-class drug study for treating primary uveal melanoma, in an international, multi-center trial. He also volunteers his medical expertise in underserviced parts of the world, such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Indonesia, and has helped train physicians in more than 20 countries. Dr. Marr’s efforts as a contributor to ongoing education in ocular oncology have been recognized by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, where he now serves as chief editor of the Academy’s Oncology and Pathology’s One network. Dr. Marr attributes his professional success to his mom, and the research he has completed on cancer. He wanted to be an artist and his mother encouraged him to use his talents in medicine.

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