Optometry Program

Faculty

Dean of Optometry

Linda Casser

Associate Dean, The Foundations of Optometric Medicine

Pierrette Dayhaw-Barker

Interim Associate Dean, The Practice of Optometric Medicine

Holly Myers

Associate Dean and Director, International Optometric Programs

Abraham Gonen

Director, Residency Program

Shital Mani

Director, Advanced Studies Program

Andrew R. Buzzelli

Director, Traineeship Program

Helene M. Kaiser

Director, Internship Program

Jean Marie Pagani

Director, Externship Program

Maria Parisi

Director, Integrative Studies

Joan Wing

Professors

Felix M. Barker II, G. Richard Bennett, Irving Bennett, Pierrette Dayhaw-Barker, Alexander Dizhoor, Teresa Duda, Andrew S. Gurwood, Thomas L. Lewis, Teng Leng Ooi, Mitchell Scheiman, John B. Siegfried, Joel A. Silbert, Joseph Toland

Distinguished Professor

Rameshwar Sharma

Associate Professors

Sarah Appel, Bernard Blaustein, Richard L. Brilliant, Andrew Buzzelli, Connie Chronister, Elise Ciner, Edward Deglin, Anthony F. Di Stefano, Michael F. Gallaway, Abraham Gonen, Helene M. Kaiser, Lorraine Lombardi, Holly Myers, Jeffrey Nyman, Neal N. Nyman, Susan Oleszewski, Jean Marie Pagani, Maria Parisi, Christopher Rinehart, Joseph P. Ruskiewicz, Marvin B. Smith, Michael R. Spinell, Robert Walker, Joan Wing, Charles Wormington

Assistant Professors

Gwenn Amos, James M. Caldwell, DeGaulle Chigbu, Robert Cole, Lynne Greenspan, Harry Kaplan, Anne-Marie Lahr, Keith Lammers, Kelly Malloy, Shital Mani, Lawrence H. McClure, Derek Mladenovich, Srihari Narayanan, Gale Orlansky, Carlo Pelino, Francine Pearlman-Storch, Paul Robinson, Glenn Roedel, John Mark Snyder, Satya Verma

Instructors

Joanne Bailey, Kerry Lueders, Elena Olshevskaya, Igor Peshenko, Brandy Scombardi-Raghu, Melissa Trego

Optometric Educators

Jamie Ellsworth Neiman, Janet Swiatocha-Delatte

Adjunct Faculty International Optometric Programs

Bente-Monica Aakre, M.Phil., Glasgow Caledonian University (Norway)
Andreas Allmoslechner, M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Switzerland)
Yoram Biger, M.D., Hebrew University (Israel)
Luigi Bilotto, B.S., McGill University; O.D., University of Montreal, School of Optometry (Canada)
Mike Boulton, Ph.D., University of Florida – Gainesville  (United Kingdom)
Jan Richard Bruenech, B.Sc., Ph.D., City University, London (Norway)
Wolfgang Cagnolati, M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry; D.Sc.(Germany)
Richard Corea, O.D, Ohio State University College of Optometry
Kjell Inge Daae, M.Sc., University of Trondheim (Norway)
Raphael Eschmann, M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Switzerland)
Walter Gutstein, B.Sc., M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Austria)
Inga-Britt K. Haugen, M.Phil., City University, London (Norway)
Gunnar Horgen, M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry; Ph.D., University of Oslo (Norway)
Imran Khan, M.S., O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Derek Mladenovich, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Delaware; O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
Kovin Naidoo, B.Sc., B.Optom, University of Durban-Westville; M.P.H., Temple University; O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry; Ph.D., University of New South Wales (Australia)
Vibeke Sundling, M.Sc., Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Norway)

Emeriti Administrator & Faculty

Gilda Crozier, Professor, O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Bernard Witlin, Professor, D.Sc., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science

Consulting Ophthalmologists

James S. Lewis, M.D.
Amiram Shapiro, M.D.
Elliot B. Werner, M.D.