Leadership Positions

Many of our faculty serve in leadership positions representing the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science. Scroll down to learn more.

Debora Lee Chen, OD, MPH

• Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate (DECC) Committee, UC Berkeley

Stephen Chun, OD

• Founder, past chair and active mentor, Bay Area Optometric Council BAOC-UC Berkeley Optometry Mentorship Program, 1983-present.
• Founding Committee Member, past chair, and active member, Comprehensive Eye Care Section(CECS), American Academy of Optometry, 1989-present.
• Residency Affairs Committee, Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO), 2024.
• International Optometric Education Committee, ASCO, 2018-

Susana Chung, OD, PhD

• Board of Trustees, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

Emily A. Cooper, PhD

• Board of Directors, Community Resources for Science

Kathryn Dumbleton, PhD, MCOptom, FAAO

• Vice-President of the International Society for Contact Lens Research (ISCLR)

Jenifer Fisher, OD, FAAO, FCOVD

• Vice Chair, Symposium Committee, American Academy of Optometry (AAO)
• Chair, Binocular Vision and Perception Educators SIG, Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO)
• Co-Director of Legislation, Alameda Contra Costa County Optometric Society (ACCCOS)
• Protocol Principal Investigator, IXT7, ATS22, ATS23, Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator’s Group (PEDIG)
• Chair, Clinic Faculty Well-Being and Transformation Committee, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science
• Secretary, Clinical Curriculum Committee, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science

John G. Flanagan, PhD, DSc, FCOptom

• Board of Directors, Optometry Giving Sight
• Board of Directors and Past-president, ASCO
• Board of Directors, Glaucoma Research Foundation
• Chair, Research Committee, Glaucoma Research Foundation
• Committee Member, The A(ccess)-Team, California Optometric Association (COA)
• Founder and Past President, Optometric Glaucoma Society

Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig, OD, PhD

• Governing Board, American Academy of Microbiology & Executive Board Member, International Society for Contact Lens Research

Celia Gong, OD, MS

• President, San Francisco Optometric Society
• Board Member, Bay Area Optometric Council

Elise N. Harb, OD, PhD

• Co-Chair, AAO Research Committee & Board Memeber, AAOF

Kuniyoshi Kanai, OD

• Member, AAO Fellowship Engagement Committee

Jeffrey Krohn, OD

• Current “Immediate Past-Chair” for the Section on Cornea, Contact Lenses & Refractive Technologies, AAO

Katherine Lai

• Chair, ARVO Neuro-rehabilitation educators SIG

Dennis Levi, OD, PhD

• Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the Editorial Board of Journal of Vision (one of ARVO’s 3 journals)

Mika Moy, OD

• Board Member, AAOF & COA

Bruno A. Olshausen, PhD

• Director of the Redwood Center, Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

Pam Satjawatcharaphong, OD

• Executive Board Member, Association of Optometric Contact Lens Educators (AOCLE)
• Advisory Boards, Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS) & Gas Permeable Lens Institute (GPLI)

Ruth Shoge, OD, MPH

• Board Member, Prevent Blindness
• Advisory Board, Women in Optometry
• Board Member, National Optometric Association Foundation (NOF)
• Delegate Member, COA

Michael Silver, PhD

• Director, UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Anne Tasaki, OD

• DEIB Committee, AAO

Lillian Wang, OD

• Immediate Past president of the California State Board of Optometry (CSBO)
• Chair of the Legislation and Regulation Committee of the CSBO
• Chair of the Continuing Education Committee of the CSBO
• Chair of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry Workgroup of the CSBO
• Chair of the Association of Practice Management Educators (APME)
• Co-Chair of the OE Tracker Committee of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO)
• Senior member of the National Board of Examination Review Committee (NBERC) of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO)
• Nominating Committee of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO)
• Government Affairs Committee of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO)

Christina S. Wilmer, OD

• Board Member, AAO