Authority

Research, publications & patents.

In a medical field, authority is not a claim — it is a record. This page makes Dr. Karlin's record explicit and traceable to its primary sources.

In brief

Justin Karlin, MD has authored or co-authored 55+ publications in oculofacial surgery, ophthalmology, and biomedical research, holds patents as a named inventor, serves as an Assistant Professor at UCLA's Stein & Doheny Eye Institutes, and co-chairs a national aesthetic-surgery masters course. Each credential below links to the independent source where it can be verified.

Scholar

55+ publications

Indexed work across the oculofacial and ophthalmology literature.

Google Scholar profile
PubMed

Indexed in the National Library of Medicine

Primary-source listing of published, peer-reviewed articles.

PubMed search
Inventor

Patents & OcuSera

Named inventor on issued/pending patents; founder & CEO of OcuSera.

Google Patents
Faculty & teaching

UCLA & the Masters Course

Assistant Professor at Stein & Doheny; Co-Chair & Lab Director of the national course.

Course site
Publications

Peer-reviewed work.

Dr. Karlin’s complete record indexed in PubMed, spanning eyelid surgery, orbital disease, oculofacial aesthetics, and translational research. Each entry links to its source record.

2026 Elastase-Treated Auricular Cartilage: Feasibility as a Substitute for Native TarsusOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2026 Investigating the correlation between the blepharospasm disability index and botulinum neurotoxin dosage for benign essential blepharospasm and hemifacial spasmOrbit PubMed → 2025 Facial Aging in Thyroid Eye Disease: Quantification by Artificial IntelligenceJournal of Craniofacial Surgery PubMed → 2024 Teprotumumab for Thyroid Eye Disease-related StrabismusOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2024 Orbitocranial Penetration of Ball Bearing Gun Trauma: A Prospective Human Cadaveric StudyJournal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base PubMed → 2023 Post-Hyaluronic Acid Recurrent Eyelid Edema: Pathophysiologic Mechanisms and a Proposed Treatment ProtocolAesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum PubMed → 2023 A case of eyelid neuroma with recurrent ptosisAmerican Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports PubMed → 2023 Estimating apparent age using artificial intelligence: Quantifying the effect of blepharoplastyJournal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery PubMed → 2023 Ensemble neural network model for detecting thyroid eye disease using external photographsBritish Journal of Ophthalmology PubMed → 2023 Systemic eosinophilic disease presenting as dacryoadenitisOrbit PubMed → 2022 Glue Embolization Without Surgical Resection for Orbital Venolymphatic MalformationJournal of Craniofacial Surgery PubMed → 2022 Tissue Inflammatory Responses to Hyaluronic Acid Gel FillerDermatologic Surgery PubMed → 2022 Revision ptosis surgery for under-correction after Müller muscle conjunctival resectionJournal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery PubMed → 2022 The Effect of Lighting and Photograph Exposure on Perceived AttractivenessOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2022 Transorbital Debulking of Sphenoid Wing MeningiomaJournal of Craniofacial Surgery PubMed → 2022 Upper eyelid weighting for lagophthalmos results in contralateral upper eyelid elevationOrbit PubMed → 2021 Multiple Arterial Vascular Anomalies in the Periorbital, Paranasal, and Intracranial Spaces Treated With Systemic BevacizumabJournal of Craniofacial Surgery PubMed → 2021 Perineural Spread of Melanoma Into the Orbit With Inflammatory Response and Nonsurgical TreatmentJAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery PubMed → 2021 The Effect of Zero Gravity on Eyelid and Brow PositionOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2020 Ophthalmic and orbital considerations in the evaluation of skull base malignanciesJournal of Neuro-Oncology PubMed → 2020 Cone Beam Computerized Tomography Dacryocystography (CBCT DCG) for the Evaluation of Lacrimal Drainage System DysfunctionOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2020 Photochemical Collagen Cross-Linking Reverses Elastase-Induced Mechanical Degradation of Upper Eyelid TarsusOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2020 Anatomic Features of Head and Neck Keratinocyte Cancer in VirginiaDermatologic Surgery PubMed → 2020 Brow height asymmetry before and after eyelid ptosis surgeryJournal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery PubMed → 2018 Bilateral Anterior Uveitis Associated with Nivolumab TherapyOcular Immunology & Inflammation PubMed → 2017 Orbital mantle cell lymphoma presenting as myasthenia gravisOrbit PubMed → 2017 A comparison of three different corneal marking methods used to determine cyclotorsion in the horizontal meridianClinical Ophthalmology PubMed → 2016 Reply re: "The Effect of Ptosis Surgery on Brow Position and the Utility of Preoperative Phenylephrine Testing"Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2016 The Effect of Ptosis Surgery on Brow Position and the Utility of Preoperative Phenylephrine TestingOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2015 The role of tissue resection length in the determination of post-operative eyelid position for Müller's muscle-conjunctival resection surgeryOrbit PubMed → 2015 Mueller's Muscle Conjunctival Resection With Skin-Only Blepharoplasty: Effects on Eyelid and Eyebrow PositionOphthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery PubMed → 2013 Rad51 ATP binding but not hydrolysis is required to recruit Rad10 in synthesis-dependent strand annealing sites in S. cerevisiaeAdvances in Biological Chemistry PubMed → 2012 Oxidized mitochondrial DNA activates the NLRP3 inflammasome during apoptosisImmunity PubMed → 2011 Caspase-1 dependent IL-1β secretion is critical for host defense in a mouse model of Chlamydia pneumoniae lung infectionPLOS ONE PubMed → 2011 Chlamydia pneumoniae infection induced allergic airway sensitization is controlled by regulatory T-cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cellsPLOS ONE PubMed → 2009 Rad10 exhibits lesion-dependent genetic requirements for recruitment to DNA double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeNucleic Acids Research PubMed → 2009 Adenoviral transduction of PTEN induces apoptosis of cultured hepatic stellate cellsChinese Medical Journal PubMed → 2009 PTEN expression is down-regulated in liver tissues of rats with hepatic fibrosis induced by biliary stenosisAPMIS PubMed →

Every entry above links directly to its record in PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) — the primary source where Dr. Karlin's authorship can be independently verified. The list reflects his complete PubMed-indexed record, newest first.

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