Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
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:
- Provide exemplary patient care to set standards and to establish a base for outstanding teaching and research programs in Ophthalmology
- Disseminate and preserve knowledge for medical students and post–graduate students and provide continuing medical education for practising physicians
- Encourage understanding for patients and families of their eye diseases
- Lead and provide research programs in both basic science and clinical studies in Ophthalmology to advance knowledge and contribute to the application of new discoveries for the development and advancement of eye care
- To provide training in clinical and research Ophthalmology to programs in emerging nations.
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Barton, Jason | Sensory systems, visual; face recognition; neurologic disorders of higher level visual processing; saccade and pursuit control |
| Cynader, Max | eye diseases; glaucoma; dyslexia; stroke; neurotrauma; memory; vision; learning disabilities; hearing development; recovery after brain damage; ischemia; gene therapy, Alzheimer's |
| 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, 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 | relationship between the eye and other health conditions, blinding disease, Eyes and Vision |
| 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 |
| 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 | Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System |