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Lectures:    

Anglia Polytechnic University Cambridge, England

1999-2002 Module leader (Instructor in charge), presented lectures, organized and supervised practical lab sessions for Optics of the eye. This course lasted for 1 semester total teaching time 36 hours.

2000-2002 Module leader (Instructor in charge), presented lectures, organized and supervised practical lab sessions for Experimental Methods in Optics & Principle Ophthalmic Lenses.  This course lasted for 1 semester; three groups; total teaching time 108 hours. 

2000-2002 Presented 6 weeks of lectures in a 12 week course on Microbiology for General and Ocular Pharmacology. This course lasted for 1 semester; total teaching time 18 hours.

2000-2002 Presented 2 weeks of a 12 week lecture course on Clinical Optometry; total teaching time 4 hours.

University of Louisville, Vision Science, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

2003-2006 Presented, 2 hours lecture in a 12 week course for Professor Edward A Essock on a course in vision science for graduate students.

Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2007 to 2011 Instructor for the Epidemiology part of OPT 323 Public health, Epidemiology and Geriatrics, presented lectures 5 weeks for a 16 week course total teaching time 10 hours.

2008 to 2011 Instructor in charge for the OPT 116, OPT 213 Biochemistry of the Eye the course is a 1.5 credit unit course each for 16 weeks, total teaching time 24 hours

2010-2011 OPT 308Glaucoma co-instructed the course (50%) with Dr. Dennis Matthews, 2 credit unit course for 16 weeks total teaching 16 hours

Glaucoma course for Texas Optometrists

12/2006, 07/2007, 12/2007, 04/2008, 12/2008 Thirteen hours of a thirty hour course lectures covering topics of anatomy and physiology of optic nerve, mechanisms of glaucomatous damage, intraocular pressure, optic disc evaluation with imaging technology, an update on primary open angle glaucoma, epidemiology of glaucoma and ocular hypertension, update on ocular hypertension, normal tension glaucoma, secondary glaucoma and visual fields.

Western University of Health Sciences

2009 to present Instructor in charge for the Ocular physiology OPTM 5032, 2.0 credit unit with 26 lecture hours. Total teaching time 26 hours

2010 to present Instructor in charge for the Ocular Disease II Glaucoma OPTM 5032 3.5 credit unit with 36 lecture hours and 10 lab hours (4 groups). Total teaching time 76 hours

2011 to 2013 Elective course II Common Optometric Procedures. OPTM 8163, 1.0 credit unit 14 lecture hours. Total teaching time 14 hours

University of Pikeville, Kentucky 2018 and 2019

OPT 716 Glaucoma Diagnosis and Management

Taught 15 hours of a 38 hour course.

Laboratory and clinic based modules:

Anglia Polytechnic University Cambridge, England

1999-2000 Contact Lenses: I co-supervised the 12 lab sessions; total lab time 36 hours.

1999-2000 Further Clinical Optometry: I co-supervised 12 lab sessions; total lab time 48 hours. 

1999-2002 Clinical Optometry: I co-supervised the 12 lab sessions; total lab time 36 hours

Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2006 Lab instructor for OPT 230 (Patient Management) total lab time 96 hours

2006 to 2011 Teaching clinical technology in Advanced Care Ocular Disease at the Eye Centre. 

2007 to 2011 Co-instructor OPT 328 a seminar based course; presented lectures; 8 weeks for a 16 week course and organized and supervised practical lab sessions.  This course lasted for 1 semester, total teaching time 10 hours

Thesis supervision: Co-supervised the following thesis

2001

1) Ms. Leena Panchal: “Vertical cup-to-disc ratio – Agreement between direct ophthalmoscopic estimation, fundus biomicroscopic estimation and scanning laser ophthalmoscopic measurement”

2) Mr. Javed Akhtar:  “Effect of pupil dilation on measurements obtained using scanning laser ophthalmoscope”

2002  

3) Ms. Sarah Burdis: “Effect of repeated tonometry on the pulsatile ocular blood flow of consensual eye.”

06/2007 to 06/2009 Co-Supervisor and committee member PhD thesis

Donald Ladwig (University of Louisville)

“Retinal nerve fiber layer and visual function” student terminated with a Masters degree.

06/2009 to 06/2011 Co-supervisor and committee member PhD thesis

Paul Young June Kim (University of Memphis)

“Early Identification and Prediction of Risk for Glaucomatous Progression Using Fractal Analysis of Pseudo 2D Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) Data”

Masters of Science in Medical Sciences Students

2012-2013

Kiana Nouri– Repeatability of Ocular Response Analyzer: Best waveform vs. Mean values

Bridgett Santos – Repeatability of Macular Pigment Optical Density (MPOD)

Duck Lee Young– Repeatability of Ocular Corvis ST in Intraocular Pressure

Measurements

Jerry Lee– Repeatability of biomechanical parameters obtained using the Corvis ST

Silverio Alvarez– Inter-eye correlation of Macular pigment optical density in healthy eyes

2013-2014

Jessica Lee– Age related variations in macular pigment optical density

Eric Saidi– In-Vivo Intraocular pressure measurements in zebrafish

2014-2015

Violeta Paronian Comparison of various clinical contrast sensitivity testing techniques

Kaydee McCray Evaluation of contrast sensitivity in healthy versus disease eyes

2015-2016

Cherryl Lemons Repeatability of automated pupillometer and effect of glare on pupil size

Arlene Flores Evaluation of CSV 1000 in glare testing

Danica Quicho Evaluating visual function with and without induced glare using the Sine CSF test of the M&S Technologies® Smart System

2016-2017

My Diep Effect of glare on contrast sensitivity function

Claire Healy Comparison of contrast sensitivity in photopic and mesopic conditions

Edward Ng Contrast sensitivity function under mesopic conditions using CSV-1000E to establish normative database.

2017-2018

Angeline Ngo Obtaining Lutein and zeaxanthin measurements using macular pigment reflectometry

Jeneatte Cross Intra and Inter-observer variability in measurements using a prototype macular pigment reflectometer

2018-2019

Juan Carlos Sanabria & Jordan Bass Development of technique of obtaining peripheral measurements using Macular Pigment Reflectometer

Drake Lem Evaluation of Visual Functional Changes in Eyes with Drusen using the Micronized Lipid-Based Carotenoid Liquid Supplementation and AREDS2 Formula

2019-2020

Aissa Do & Kim Vo Pilot study to evaluate the effects of screen time on vision and stress hormone