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School of Optometry

Faculty in Systems Neuroscience

  • Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO

    "Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO"

    Assistant Professor

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    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.

  • Timothy Gawne, PhD

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    Professor

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    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.

  • Safal Khanal, OD, PhD, FAAO

    Safal Khanal

    Assistant Professor

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    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

  • Lei Liu, PhD, FAAO

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    Professor

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    HPB 502

    (205) 996-6627

    Teaching/research interests: Binocular vision, eye movement, visual function assessment, low vision rehabilitation

  • Julie Quinet, PhD

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    Assistant Professor

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    Shelby 903

    (205) 934-6757

    Teaching/research interests: Eye movements, Binocular vision

  • Lawrence Sincich, PhD

    Lawrence Sincich.

    Professor
    Director of the Graduate Program

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    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.

  • Mark Swanson, OD, MSPH, FAAO

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    Professor

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    HPB 505

    Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020

  • Katherine K. Weise, OD, MBA, FAAO

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    Professor

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    HPB 506

    Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020