This is your chance to deepen your knowledge and to specialize in your chosen optometric field.  Specialty Optometric Practice (SOP) This portion of the curriculum emphasizes eye examination skills particular to optometric specialty areas: contact lens, pediatrics, and vision rehabilitation.

Special Interests Chiropractic, anatomy, optometric issues related to concussion, neural plasticity Education estrogen on neuron-specific neuronal protein (NeuN) and phosphorylated cyclic AMP response element-binding J Chiro Humanities, 18:94-98, 2011

We make sure that part of your fourth year will be spent away from the IEI experiencing other clinical Whether your interests lie in OD/MD practices or community health centers, you will find the right site This is also your time to discover what specialties you might want to pursue as a Doctor of Optometry

Association Scholarship The Alumni Association Scholarship was initiated by the ICO Alumni Council in 2011

Subsequently, being Ophthalmic Optics Laboratory Coordinator was added to her responsibilities and in 2011 Special Interests Patient-centered care, Ophthalmic Optics Education 1994 Stanford University, BS in Optometry Awards & Honors 2009 Faculty Advisor to National Varilux Student Grant Winner Casey Bartz 2011

Special Interests Glaucoma, uveitis, surgical management of cataracts, ocular surface disease Education Clin Exp Optom. 2011 Mar;94(2):200-6. Opitz DL, Tung S., Jang US, Park JJ. Clin Exp Optom. 2011 Sep;94(5):438-42. Opitz DL, Harthan JS.

• Faculty • Patricia Salazar, OD, FAAO Patricia Salazar, OD, FAAO Associate Professor of Optometry; Specialty ICO provides an unmatched sense of community – as someone who is not from the area and did not attend not in clinic, she enjoys conducting contract research and working one-on-one with students as the Specialty Special Interests Ocular Disease, Primary Care Education 2010 New England College of Optometry, OD 2005

eye exams, vision therapy, visual information processing testing, optical coherence tomography, and anterior Special Olympics We are also the official provider of eye care for the Special Olympics .

Special Interests Binocular vision, strabismus, vision therapy, pediatrics Education 1986 Pennsylvania Optom Vis Sci 2011; 88: 733-741. Pang Y, Goodfellow GW, Allison C, Block S, Frantz KA. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:2444-2449. Pang Y, Gabriel H, Frantz KA, Saeed F. Binocular test findings associated with difficulty fusing images in the slit lamp. Erroneous findings in polarized testing caused by plastic prisms.

Special Interests Geometric, physical and visual optics, vision quality and visual optics in aging, optical Journal of Vision, 11(1):21, 1-24, 2011. Koenig DE, Hofer HJ: Do color appearance judgments interfere with detection of small threshold stimuli Koenig DE, Hofer HJ (2011). Koenig DE, Hofer HJ (2011).

MS, FAAO Catherine Niermann, OD, MS, FAAO Assistant Professor of Optometry Email: CNiermann@ico.edu Part I encounter demonstrates their compassion for the field of optometry and their willingness to be a part Special Interests Primary Eye Care, Low Vision Rehabilitation, Health Communication Education 2014 University private practice Awards & Honors 2012 Gold Key International Society, Southern College of Optometry 2011

Man, OD, FAAO, FSLS Assistant Professor of Optometry Email: michman@ico.edu Part Time Faculty Kaori Asano Man joined a private practice and also served as part-time adjunct clinical instructor to ICO externship She is now part of the ICO family full-time, with a focus on laboratory teaching and working with students Special Interests Cornea and Contact Lens, Keratoconus, Myopia Management, Dry Eye Disease, Primary Eye Linda Cushing Scholarship for Contact Lens Management 2011-2014 Dean’s Departmental Award, Clinical Honors