Graduate Faculty

Graduate faculty are selected by the Graduate Studies Committee from those faculty possessing the appropriate background, skills, and resources, to mentor MS students and conduct hypothesis-driven experimental research programs that will adequately support student participation. Graduate faculty may also participate in teaching graduate level courses and seminars.

Our graduate faculty members demonstrate adequate performance as a graduate advisor, produce graduate student research proposals of high quality as determined by the reviews of the Graduate Studies Committee, demonstrate a record of peer-reviewed publication of graduate student research, and maintain good performance evaluations in teaching graduate classes.

Current Graduate Faculty and Research Interests

Directors

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Fuensanta A. Vera-Diaz, OD, PhD, FAAO
Director of Research
Associate Professor of Optometry

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Athanasios Panorgias, MSc, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Vision Sciences

Faculty

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Elena Z. Biffi, OD, MSc, FAAO
Imaging
New England College of Optometry

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Hilary Gaiser, OD, MS
Vision screening, Binocular Vision
New England College of Optometry

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Ji-Chang He, MS, PhD
Visual Optics and Visual Performance
New England College of Optometry

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Steven Koevary, PhD
Prevention of Autoimmune Diseases, Ocular Drug Delivery
New England College of Optometry

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Barry Kran, OD, FAAO
Pediatric Vision, Cortical Visual Impairment
New England College of Optometry

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Sangeetha Metlapally, BSOpt, PhD, FAAO
Aberrations and Binocular Vision
New England College of Optometry

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Debora Nickla, PhD
Animal Models of Myopia
New England College of Optometry

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Athanasios Panorgias, MSc, PhD
Mechanisms of Retinal Processing; Retinal Disease
New England College of Optometry

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Nicole Ross, OD, MSc, FAAO, DAAO(LV)
Vision Rehabilitation Research
New England College of Optometry

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Christopher Patrick Taylor, PhD
Visual performance in myopia and presbyopia
New England College of Optometry

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Fuensanta Vera-Diaz, OD, PhD
Myopia and Visual Performance
New England College of Optometry

Adjunct Faculty

Peter Bex, PhD
Visual Function in Amblyopia and Eye Diseases
Northeastern University

Alex Bowers, MCOptom, PhD
Vision Rehabilitation Research
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

Ananya Datta, BSOpt, MPhil, PhD
Bacterial Colonization of Contact Lens Cases and its Inhibition using Antimicrobial Contact Lens Storage Cases
New England College of Optometry

Francesca Fortenbaugh, PhD
Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Function in TBI Patients
VA Medical Center, Boston

Anne Fulton, MD
Retinopathy of Prematurity in Infants
Children’s Hospital, Boston

Haiyan Gong, MD, PhD
Hemodynamics of Aqueous Humor Flow
Boston University Medical School

Jane Gwiazda, PhD
Development of Vision and Myopia in Humans
New England College of Optometry

Kevin Houston, OD, MS
Vision Rehabilitation Research
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

Gang Luo, PhD
Vision Screening
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

D. Luisa Mayer, PhD
Clinical Testing of Pediatric Vision; Pediatric Low Vision
New England College of Optometry

Glen McCormack, OD, PhD
Accommodation, Convergence, and Aniseikonia
New England College of Optometry

Amy Nau, OD
Cornea and Contact Lens; Meibomian Gland Disease
Korb Associates

Eli Peli, OD, MS
Low Vision and Image Enhancement
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

Aparna Raghuram, OD, PhD
Visual Dysfunction Post-concussion and Learning Disability
Children’s Hospital, Boston

Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, PhD
Wound Healing in Corneal Epithelial Cells Using Live Cell and Fixed Imaging Technologies
Boston University Medical Center

Emily Wiecek, OD, PhD
Quantification of Visual Function
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School