Faculty
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, Access and Engagement
HPB 527
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Teaching/research interests: Community health optometry, primary care, clinical skills, procedures and imaging
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Emma Budraitis, OD
Instructor
HPB 415
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Teaching/research interests: Clinical skills and procedures, primary care
Terri L. Call, OD
Associate Professor
Director, Primary Care Clinic
HPB 517
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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
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Teaching/research interests: Contact Lenses and Anterior Segment of the Eye
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Jennifer Craig, OD
Instructor
HPB 415
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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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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
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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
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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/khanallab/
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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, 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
Associate Professor
HPB G060
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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
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Teaching/research interests: Pediatric optometry, binocular vision, vision therapy, vision and learning
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Nicholas Onken, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 508
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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
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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
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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, OD, PhD, FAAO
Associate Professor
Supervisor, Primary Care Residency
HPB 510
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Teaching/research interests: Introduction to clinic, compulink, primary care optometry, community eye care, vision screenings, providing eye care and education to underserved areas
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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 A. Steele, OD, FAAO
Professor
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
HPB G090C
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Teaching/research interests: Clinical skills and thinking, ophthalmic imaging, ocular disease
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Mark Swanson, OD, MSPH, FAAO
Professor
HPB 505
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Janelle Sventek, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 514
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Teaching/research interests: Pediatrics, myopia control, vision therapy
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Candice I. Turner, OD
Associate Professor
HPB 523
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Teaching/research interests: Ocular pharmacology, Clinical skills and methods, Clinical management
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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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Sandra E. Wang-Harris, OD, MPH, FAAO
Associate Professor
HPB 524
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Teaching/research interests: Community Eye Health, Low Vision, Ophthalmic Optics, Contact Lenses and Special Needs Populations
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Katherine K. Weise, OD, MBA, FAAO
Professor
HPB 506
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Natalie West, OD
Assistant Professor
HPB 525
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Jillian F. Ziemanski, OD, MS, PhD, FAAO
Associate Professor
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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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