Graduate Faculty Profiles
PhD Faculty Advisors
Jose-Manuel Alonso, MD, PhD
Functional Circuitry of the Thalamus and Cortex
Benjamin Backus, PhD
Learning in Visual Perception
Alexandra Benavente-Perez, PhD, McOpt, MS
Stewart Bloomfield,PhD
Functional Roles of Gap Junctions in Retinal Physiology and Pathology
Kenneth Ciuffreda, OD, PhD
Abnormal Oculomotor Systems/Head Trauma
Jerome Feldman, PhD
Visual Learning/Operant and Classical Conditioning
Philip B. Kruger, OD, PhD
Stimuli for Accommodation/Wavefront Abberation
Barry B. Lee, Ph.D.
Information Transfer Through Retinal Ganglion Cells
Robert McPeek, PhD
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attention and Visually-Guided Actions
Tracy Nguyen, OD, PhD
Corneal Diseases.
Jordan Pola, PhD
The Control of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement
Peter Reinach, PhD
Cornea Cell Signaling/Corneal Wound Healing
Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD
Patient-Based Research in Presbyopia and Contact Lenses
Mark Rosenfield MC Optom, PhD
Myopia and Retinal Defocus
Robert Sack, PhD
Biochemistry of the Pre-Ocular Tear Film Proteins
Steven H. Schwartz, OD, PhD
Psychophysical Investigations of Glaucoma
Harold A. Sedgwick, PhD
Perception of Spatial Layout in Low Vision
Miduturu Srinivas, PhD
Gating and Pharmacology of Lens Gap Junction Channels
David Troilo, PhD
Visual Development, Accommodation, Refractive Error, Myopia
Suresh Viswanathan, BOpt, MS, PhD, FAAO
Retinal ganglion cell function/glaucoma
Qasim Zaidi, PhD
Color Perception/Three-Dimensional Shape Perception
MS Faculty Advisors
Jeffrey Cooper, OD, MS
Convergence Insufficiency
Robert H. Duckman, OD, MS
Amblyopia
Mitchell Dul, OD, MS
Perimetry/Visual Fields/Psychophysics/Glaucoma
Ralph Gundel, OD
Contact Lens and Cornea and Keratoconus
Joan K. Portello, OD, MPH, MS
Computer Vision Syndrome
Danielle Rutner, OD, MS
Visual Rehabilitation
Jerome Sherman, OD
Ocular Disease
Postdoctoral Fellows
Biological Sciences
Junghyun Park
Vision Sciences
Graduate Students
Robert Ennis (Summer 2008)
Advisor: Zaidi
Stanley Komban (Fall 2008)
Advisor: Alonso
Reza Lashgari (Summer 2008)
Advisor: Alonso
Preethi Thiagarajan (Winter 2008)
Advisor: Ciuffreda
Yushi Wang (Fall 2007)
Advisor: Alonso
Naveen Kumar Yadav (Fall 2009)
Advisor: Ciuffreda
Bonnie Cooper (Fall 2009)
Advisor: Lee/Zaidi
Micheal Jansen (Fall 2010)
Advisor: Zaidi/Alonso
Cristina Law
Baptiste Caziot (Fall 2011)
Advisor: Backus
Wool Lauren ((Fall 2011)
Advisor: Zaidi/Alonso
James Truong
Nabin Joshi
Lanya Cai
Romain Bachy
Part-Time OD-MS Students
James Li
Tybee Eleff
Anurada Veerapan
OD/MS Students
Lamees Alshawkani
Benjamin Arthur
Jennifer Gould
Yujia Huang
Rae Huang
Jennifer Hue
Joanne Malek
Kathleen Maloney
Stefanie Naumovitz
Olga Kochurova
Kevin Willeford
Anthony Zarella
Kathleen Abarr
Amy Lam
Shabab Motamedi
Lisa Steele
Anna Wong
Linxi Zhao
Shira Radner
Okshana Natanelova
Jenny Bartov
Vanessa Fimfeite
Matt Siu
Lauren Thompson
Vijayan Tobin
