The Department of Ophthalmology will strive for excellence in health care delivery, education and research. The mission of the staff of the department is to:
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Barton, Jason | face perception, object recognition, eye movements, higher visual function, Human vision and eye movement |
| Cynader, Max | eye diseases; glaucoma; dyslexia; stroke; neurotrauma; memory; vision; learning disabilities; hearing development; recovery after brain damage; ischemia; gene therapy, Alzheimer's |
| Etminan, Mahyar | Eye and Visual System Diseases; Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology; Oular Epidemiology; Drug Safety; Epidemiologist Study Design; Causal Inference; Cancer Epidemiology |
| Giaschi, Deborah | Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; amblyopia; reading; dyslexia; motion perception; binocular vision; visual development |
| Gregory-Evans, Cheryl | Tissue fusion during development, Aniridia, retinal therapeutics |
| Gregory-Evans, Kevin | retina, stem cells, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, Best’s disease, x-linked retinoschisis, electroretinography., Eye, novel molcular approaches in the treatment of retinal disease, cell-based therapeutics ofr age-related macular degenration and retinitis pigmentosa, molecular defects underlying retinal disease |
| Gupta, Neeru | |
| Ju, Myeong Jin | Medical and biomedical engineering; algorithms for quantitatively imaging biological dynamics in human retina; cellular resolution functional retinal imaging systems; Medical Imaging; optical imaging systems; signal processing algorithms |
| Lyons, Christopher | Pediatric Ophthalmology; Oculoplastics |
| Matsubara, Joanne Aiko | Sensory systems, visual; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Gene and molecular therapy; Cellular neuroscience; neuroscience; vision; cell and development; cell death pathways; innate immune response; eye disease, retinal degenerations; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration |
| Mikelberg, Frederick Samuel | Other clinical medicine; Glaucoma |
| Moritz, Orson | Mechanisms underlying genetically inherited forms of blindness |
| Oruc, Ipek | visual recognition of high level forms such as faces, letters and objects |
| Shaw, Christopher | Paralympics |
| Spering, Miriam | Biological sciences; vision; movement; perception and action; eye movements; hand movements; eye-hand coordination; sport vision; Parkinson's disease |
| Swindale, Nicholas Vaughan | Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System |
| Yeung, Sonia | Ocular surface stem cell transplantation for limbal stem cell disease; Alternate sources for ocular surface stem cell transplantation; Limbal stem cell imaging and niche studies; Long-term gene expression in ocular stem cells for therapeutics |