Patsy Harvey, OD, MPH, FAAO

Duties

Director of Continuing Education

Teaching

Optometry 126. Systemic Disease

Co-Instructor-in-Charge

Pathophysiology, pharmacotherapy, and clinical management of systemic and ocular diseases through a combination of lecture and problem-based learning approaches; disease processes emphasized, including cellular injury and repair, inflammation, infection, degeneration, and neoplasia; neurologic, cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, and congenital disease and their relative ocular manifestations; basic principles of pharmacology and overviews of drugs used to treat diseases of each system; the role of the optometrist in the health care system.

Optometry 136. Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Co-Instructor-in-Charge

Pathophysiology, pharmacotherapy, and clinical management of systemic and ocular disease through a combination of lecture and problem-based learning approaches; disease processes emphasized, including cellular injury and repair, inflammation, infection, degeneration, and neoplasia; neurologic, cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, and congenital disease and their relative ocular manifestations; basic principles of pharmacology and overviews of drugs used to treat diseases of each system; the role of the optometrist in the health care system.

Optometry 151. Low Vision

Contributing Instructor

Epidemiology and etiology of low vision; optical principles of low vision aids; optometric examination and treatment of the low vision patient; interdisciplinary rehabilitation resources, counseling, and referral.