Faculty
!["Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO"](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/edmund-arthur.jpg)
Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO
Assistant Professor
HPB 519
(205) 996-6576
Teaching/research interests: Ocular Disease Detection and Diagnosis; Vision Science; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Geometric and Visual Optics; Advanced Retinal Imaging; Retinal biomarkers for early detection of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema; Ocular biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias; Biological variable model for screening and early detection of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in underserved populations.
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Keisha Brown, OD
Assistant Professor
Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
HPB 527
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Community health optometry, primary care, clinical skills, procedures and imaging
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Emma Budraitis, OD
Instructor
HPB 415
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Clinical skills and procedures, primary care
![Terri Call headshot.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/terri-call.jpg)
Terri L. Call, OD
Associate Professor
Director, Primary Care Clinic
HPB 517
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Clinical methods and skills, injections and minor surgical procedures, ocular disease
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Katherine Allison Clore, OD
Professor
Director, Continuing Education
HPB 509
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Contact Lenses and Anterior Segment of the Eye
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Jennifer Craig, OD
Instructor
HPB 415
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Clinical methods and skills, soft and specialty contact lenses, primary eye care
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Timothy Gawne, PhD
Professor
HPB 528
(205) 934-5495
Teaching/research interests: Information processing in the nervous system; retinal signal processing and the development of myopia ("emmetropization"), cerebral cortical dynamics and schizophrenia; science fiction and AI.
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Marina Gorbatyuk, PhD
Professor
VH 443A
(205) 934-6762
Teaching/research interests: VS 112 Physiology of the Eye; VS 745 Biology and Pathology of the Posterior Segment
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Adam Gordon, OD, MPH, FAAO
Chair, Department of Optometry and Vision Science
Professor
Director, Cornea and Contact Lens Service
Coordinator, Residency Program in Cornea and Contact Lenses
HPB 507
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Contact lenses in normal and diseased eyes, medical applications of contact lenses, ophthalmic optics
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Kristine B. Hopkins, OD, MSPH, FAAO
Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
HPB 520
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Eye teaming and focusing disorders (convergence insufficiency, strabismus, etc), amblyopia, and pediatric vision
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Safal Khanal, OD, PhD, FAAO
Assistant Professor
HPB 526
Office: (205) 934-4558
Lab: (205) 934-3093 and (205) 934-0424
Website: https://sites.uab.edu/skhanal
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Refractive errors; emmetropization and refractive development; retinal, choroidal, and scleral mechanisms of eye growth regulation, myopia onset, progression, and treatment; visual electrophysiology
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Timothy W. Kraft, PhD
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
VH 346B
(205) 975-2885
![Lei Liu headshot.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/lei_liu.jpg)
Lei Liu, PhD, FAAO
Professor
HPB 502
(205) 996-6627
Teaching/research interests: Binocular vision, eye movement, visual function assessment, low vision rehabilitation
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Amy B. Logan, OD, FAAO
Assistant Professor
HPB G060
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
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Jason J. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO
Professor
Senior Associate Vice President for Research
AB 714 and HPB 502
(205) 975-3497
Teaching/research interests: Anterior segment, cornea, contact lenses, dry eye disease, meibomian gland disease
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Kelly K. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO
Dean
HPB 121A
(205) 975-9935
Teaching/research interests: Dry Eye Disease
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Tamara S. Oechslin, OD, PhD, FAAO
Associate Professor
HPB 512
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Pediatric optometry, binocular vision, vision therapy, vision and learning
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Nicholas Onken, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 508
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Myopia control, contact lenses, binocular vision, and special needs
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Caroline B. Pate, OD, FAAO
Professor
Director of Residency Programs
HPB 522
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Residency education, anterior segment ocular disease
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Steven J. Pittler, PhD, FARVO, FAAO
Professor
Director, Vision Science Research Center
VH 375B
(205) 934-6744
Teaching/research interests: Teaching: Biochemistry, Genetics, Ocular System, Posterior Segment
Research: Retina, Photoreceptors, Phototransduction, Transgenic Mice, Gene Editing, Translational Genetics
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Julie Quinet, PhD
Assistant Professor
Shelby 903
(205) 934-6757
Teaching/research interests: Eye movements, Binocular vision
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Andrew Rothstein, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 521
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Ocular disease, primary care optometry, community eye care
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Gerald Simon, OD
Professor
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
HPB 304H
(205) 996-4923
![Janene Sims headshot.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/j-sims.jpg)
Janene Sims, OD, PhD, FAAO
Associate Professor
Supervisor, Primary Care Residency
HPB 510
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Introduction to clinic, compulink, primary care optometry, community eye care, vision screenings, providing eye care and education to underserved areas
Read more![Lawrence Sincich.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/Lawrence-Sincich-2022.jpg)
Lawrence Sincich, PhD
Professor
Director of the Graduate Program
SHEL 911
(205) 975-3446
Teaching/research interests: Anatomy and physiology of the visual system (VIS 613), optics for vision science (VIS 610), visual psychophysics and perception (VS 122, VS 211), graduate educational initiatives.
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Om P. Srivastava, PhD
Professor
HPB 437
(205) 975-7630
![Elizabeth Steele headshot.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/beth-steele.jpg)
Elizabeth A. Steele, OD, FAAO
Professor
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
HPB G090C
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Clinical skills and thinking, ophthalmic imaging, ocular disease
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Mark Swanson, OD, MSPH, FAAO
Professor
HPB 505
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
![Candice I. Turner headshot.](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/RS44066_Candice_Turner-3-scr.jpg)
Candice I. Turner, OD
Associate Professor
HPB 523
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Ocular pharmacology, Clinical skills and methods, Clinical management
Read more![Yuchen Wang, PhD](/optometry/home/images/images/people/faculty/yuhen-wang-800x1200.jpg)
Yuchen Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
VH 390C
(205) 975-0732
Teaching/research interests: Physiology, anatomy, neurobiology and biochemistry of the retina
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Katherine K. Weise, OD, MBA, FAAO
Professor
HPB 506
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
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Natalie West, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 525
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
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Jillian F. Ziemanski, OD, MS, PhD, FAAO
Assistant Professor
Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020
Teaching/research interests: Sjogren's syndrome, dry eye, MGD, glaucoma diagnosis and management, retinal imaging, assessment of systemic diseases relevant to optometry, recognition and management of in-office emergencies using simulation
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