Faculty Research Interest Summaries
Sophia Chung, MD
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Clinical Professor of Neurology
- Laser speckle flowgraphy of the optic nerve
- Clinical neuro-ophthalmology
Randy Kardon, MD, PhD
Pomerantz Family Chair in Ophthalmology
Director, Iowa City VA Center of Excellence for Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Relationship of visual dysfunction to pupillomotor responsiveness to light
- Pharmacology of the central and peripheral pupillomotor pathways
- Autonomic disorders of pupillary function
- Risk factors in the pathogenesis of optic nerve diseases
- Multifocal electroretinogram in diagnosing visual loss
- Correlation of structure and function of the visual system
- Studies of the dynamics of the blood flow to the choroid and retina
- Optical imaging of retinal function
Adriana Rodriguez-Barrath, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Associate Residency Program Director of Neurology
- Migraine and headache disorders
- Photophobia in migraine and non-migraine conditions
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and pulsatile synchronous tinnitus
Edward F. Linton, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Smartphone perimetry without eye tracking
- Limitations of using inexpensive available hardware to perform perimetry
- Strategies to circumvent these limitations
- Development of size-modulation perimetry strategy
- Validation of an inexpensive open source VR perimetry platform
- Laser Speckle Flowgraphy in Carotid Cavernous Fistula
- Non-invasive diagnosis
- Correlation of velocity waveform in the eye to pressure waveform in the superior ophthalmic vein
- Identification of biomarkers that predict vision loss
Matthew Thurtell, MBBS, MSc, FRACP
The Captain Jim and Donnita Gross Fund Professor
Director, Neuro-Ophthalmology Service
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Associate Professor of Neurology
- Eye-movement disorders and their treatment
- Eye movement kinematics
- Clinical neuro-ophthalmology
- Clinical neuro-otology
Michael Wall, MD
Director, Iowa Visual Field Reading Center
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Etiology and Treatment
- Mechanisms of perimetric variability
- Use of large sized perimetric stimuli
- New perimetric techniques
- Sensory visual system information processing with emphasis on the application of visual physiology and neural networks to development of new clinical visual tests.