UAB - Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D.

Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D.

Professor of Ophthalmology
Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology
Director, Clinical Research Unit
Vice Chair for Clinical Research

Biography:
Cynthia Owsley was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and was raised in Philadelphia and southeastern Connecticut. She received her B.A. degree from Wheaton College, Massachusetts (1975) majoring in Psychology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received the Ph.D. from Cornell University (1980) in Psychology, concentrating in the area of perceptual development. Following graduate school, Dr. Owsley did postdoctoral training in vision and aging at Northwestern University (1979-82) and also in epidemiology graduate training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1998) where she received the M.S.P.H.

Cynthia Owsley is Professor of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and holds the Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology. She is Director of the Clinical Research Unit in the Department of Ophthalmology, and also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Research on Applied Gerontology at UAB. Dr. Owsley's research program focuses on aging-related eye disease and vision impairment and is funded by a number of organizations including the National Institutes of Health (NIA and NEI), Research to Prevent Blindness, the EyeSight Foundation of Alabama, Prevent Blindness America, and General Motors Corporation. Her research program embodies many approaches including methodologies from psychophysics, epidemiology, clinical trials, and health services research. She has served on panels for the National Research Council including the Committee on Vision and the Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Vision Impairment, as well as the Transportation Research Board's Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons (immediate Past Chair).

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Undergraduate Education
Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Graduate Education|
University of Alabama
at Birmingham
MSPH, Epidemiology

Cornell University
PhD, Psychology

Postdoctoral Training
Northwestern University
Psychology, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology

Dr. Owsley is a frequent grant reviewer for NIH's Center for Scientific Review, as well as grant review panels internal to the National Eye Institute and the National Institute on Aging. She served as a member of VIS-B from 1990-94, and from 2005-2007 she chaired CVP. Dr. Owsley currently chairs the NIH F12 Fellowship Review Panel on Cognition, Language, and Perception. Dr. Owsley serves on the editorial boards of Current Eye Research and the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, and served on the editorial board of Vision Research for 8 years. She is on the Scientific Advisory Committee for Prevent Blindness America and the Planning Committee of NEI's National Eye Health Education Program. Dr. Owsley has been elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and is the recipient of the Glenn A. Fry Award of the American Optometric Foundation and the Bartimaeus Award of the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2009 she was named as an Inaugural Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Owsley is married to Dr. Michael Sloane, is the mother of two, and resides in Mountain Brook, Alabama with her family.

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