Professor, Ophthalmology and Neurology & Neurosurgery
E-mail:听leonard.levin [at] mcgill.ca
Research Areas: Biological Modelling; Cost-effectiveness modeling; Clinical decision analysis
Dr. Levin鈥檚 laboratory studies聽computational approaches to problems in the pathophysiology and clinical aspects of neuro-ophthalmic diseases, using quantitative methods to gain insight into disease processes and health care.聽Examples include:听
(1) Patient-level Markov chain simulation modeling of the progression of diabetic retinopathy in Quebec, in order to聽evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various screening methodologies;聽
(2) Simulation of the spread of variance in the drug development process, in order to calculate the powering of聽translational studies B;
(3) Modeling the diffusion of聽superoxide anion in the optic nerve of patients with a mitochondrial DNA mutation.