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College of Optometry

Faculty and Their Research

Raymond Applegate. Professor and Borish Chair of Optometry. O.D., Indiana University, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley. Visual optics, ocular aberrations, cataract, refractive surgery, early disease detection.

Harold E. Bedell. John and Rebecca Moores Professor. Ph.D., Florida. Normal and abnormal space perception, control of eye movements, peripheral vision, clinical applications of visual psychophysics, nystagmus.

Jan P. G. Bergmanson. Professor. Ph.D., City University (London); O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Anatomy and pathology of cornea, corneal response to contact lenses, ultrastructural analysis of laser effects on ocular tissue.

Han Cheng. Clinical Assistant Professor, O.D., Ph.D., University of Houston. Noninvasive functional and structural evaluation of the visual pathways under normal and pathological conditions.

Yuzo M. Chino. Benedict-McFadden Professor. Ph.D., Syracuse. Neural plasticity; effects of abnormal visual experience on retinogeniculostriate pathways.

Susana Chung. Associate Professor. Dip. in optometry, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Ph.D. University of Houston. Psychophysical investigation of normal vision and vision loss.

Karen D. Fern. Associate Professor. O.D., Pacific University. Vision development, assessing visual functions in preschool children, preschool vision screening.

Donald Fox. Professor. Ph.D., Cincinnati. Retinal cellular and molecular biology; effects of lead and drugs on cellular biochemistry, physiology, and morphology of developing and mature retina.

Laura Frishman. John and Rebecca Moores Professor. M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Retinal physiology, retinal origins and cellular mechanisms of the electroretinogram (ERG).

Adrian Glasser. Benedict-Pitts Professor, and Associate Professor. Ph.D., Cornell. Mechanisms of accommodation, the accomodative refractive changes in the eye and the etiology of presbyopia.

Ronald S. Harwerth. John and Rebecca Moores Professor. O.D., Houston; Ph.D., Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Psychophysics of vision, animal psychophysics, binocular vision in monkey and man.

Heidi Hofer. Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. Color mechanisms and adaptive optics imaging of the cone mosaic, structural and functional studies of photoreceptors in human retina under normal and pathological conditions. Dynamic studies of the eye’s aberrations.

Norman Leach. Clinical Professor. O.D., M.S., University of Houston. Primary care and contact lenses.

Ruth E. Manny. Charles R. Stewart Professor. O.D., Ph.D., Houston. Development of normal and abnormal vision in human infants; preschool vision screening.

Alison McDermott. Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of London. Corneal cell biology, wound healing, and pathology.

William Miller. Associate Professor. O.D., Ph.D., Ohio State University. Contact lenses, corneal physiology.

Deborah Otteson. Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Genetic, cellular and molecular perspectives on morphogenesis, neurogenesis and regeneration of the retina in vertebrates. Molecular regulation of cell-specific gene expression in the retina.

Anastas F. Pass. Associate Professor. O.D., Illinois College of Optometry; M.S., University of Houston. Spatial and spatio-temporal characteristics of the diseased eye, clinical visual psychophysics, and aging.

Judy Perrigin. Professor, O.D., University of Houston. Contact lenses primary eye care; medical laboratory analysis; ocular microbiology' epidemiology of refractive errors.

Marcus Piccolo. Associate Professor. O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Ocular disease; ocular pharmacology; contact lenses and primary care.

Jason Porter. Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. High-resolution retinal imaging with adaptive optics, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, mechanisms of retinal disease.

John Robson. Senior Research Professor. M.A., Ph.D., Cambridge. Retinal electrophysiology, visual neurophysiology, light adaptation, contrast sensitivity, and normal lens pigmentation.

Earl L. Smith III. Greeman-Petty Professor. O.D., Ph.D., Houston. Amblyopia, binocular vision, psychophysical and neurophysiological effects of abnormal visual experience.

Gregory L. Stephens. Associate Professor. O.D.; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Ophthalmic optics; ophthalmic materials testing; binocular vision.

Scott B. Stevenson. Associate Professor. Ph.D., Brown University. Vergence eye movements and binocular coordination, stereoscopic depth perception, modeling of binocular image matching processes.

Wensveen, Janice. Clinical Assistant Professor, O.D., University of Waterloo, Ph.D., University of Houston. Stereopsis in normal and abnormal binocular vision, clinical accommodative/ vergence anomalies, risk factors for myopia.

Woo, Stanley. Clinical Associate Professor and Center for Sight Enhancement Director , O.D., University of California at Berkeley M.S., University of Houston. Assessment and training of visual function in patients with low vision.