Chief, Vision Functions Clinic
Optometry 256. Diagnosis and Treatment of Posterior Segment Ocular Disease
Pathophysiology, pharmacotherapy, and clinical management of systemic and ocular diseases through a combination of lecture and problem-based learning approaches; disease processes, 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 with overviews of drugs used to treat diseases of each system; the role of the optometrist in the health care system.
Vision Science 204. Visual Perception and Sensitivity
Psychophysical basis for clinical tests in acuity, perimetry, and color vision; the visual stimulus and photometry; visual receptors; psychophysical method and visual threshold’ light sensitivity; contrast sensitivity’ light and dark adaptation; temporal and spatial properties of visual function; color vision and abnormalities; changes with age and disease; visual illusion; basis for advanced diagnostic procedures.
Optometry 441A-C. Specialty Clinics
Examination, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and management of patients in Primary Care Clinic.
Clinical electrophysiology (ERG, EOG, VEP) of normal vision, and of inherited and acquired retinal disease; mechanisms of color vision in normal and color defective eyes; development of new techniques of clinical electrophysiology