Join the World Ophthalmology Congress in 2026
On its 100th anniversary, the International Council of Ophthalmology is hosting the World Ophthalmology Congress® June 26 to 29, 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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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 | face recognition; neurologic disorders of higher level visual processing; saccade and pursuit control; 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 | amblyopia; reading; dyslexia; motion perception; binocular vision; visual development; 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 | algorithms for quantitatively imaging biological dynamics in human retina; cellular resolution functional retinal imaging systems; Medical Imaging; optical imaging systems; signal processing algorithms; 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; Pediatric Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics |
| Matsubara, Joanne Aiko | neuroscience; vision; cell and development; cell death pathways; innate immune response; eye disease, retinal degenerations; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration; 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 | vision; movement; perception and action; eye movements; hand movements; eye-hand coordination; sport vision; Parkinson's disease; vision, movement, perception and action, eye movements, hand movements, eye-hand coordination, sport vision, Parkinson's disease |
| Swindale, Nicholas | Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System; Eye and Visual System Diseases, Neuronal Modeling, Neuronal Systems, Visual System |