Volunteer Faculty

Daniel Alter, MD
David Badawi, MD
Adrienne Berman, MD
Michael Blair, MD
Rebekah Braslow, MD
Lawrence Chapman, MD
Robert Egel, MD
Steven Eiden, MD
Gerald Fishman, MD
Timothy Flood, MD
Jon Geiser, MD
Molly Gilbert, MD
Daniel Greenberg, MD
Robert Johnson, MD
Bruce Kaplan, MD
Spero Kinnas, MD
Timothey Kisla, MD
Sheridan Lam, MD
Janet Lee, MD
Marc Levin, MD
David Lubeck, MD
Carol Menner, MD

David Mittelman, MD
Krishan Nagpal, MD
Smajo Osmanovic, MD
Anna Park, MD
Kirk Packo, MD
Rakhi Patil, MD
Michael Paxia, MD
Richard Quinones, MD
Motilal Raichand, MD
Pervez Rasul, MD
Alfred Rosenbloom, OD
Kenneth Resnick, MD
Michael Shapiro, MD
Marcus Solomon, MD
Sriram Sonty, MD
Thomas Stelmack, OD
Edward Sung, MD
Daniel Tepper, MD
Charles Vygantas, MD
Michael Weisberg, MD
Robert Weiss, MD
Chloe Winterbotham, MD

Research Adjunct Appointments

Anthony Peter Adamis, MD
Vice President, Global Head of Ophthalmology, Genentech, Inc.
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Mechanisms of Ocular Vascular Disease; Ocular Drug Delivery

P. Pat Banerjee, PhD
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UIC College of Engineering
Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment) Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Sensimmer: Virtual Phaco Trainer for Cataract Surgery

Eric C. Beyer, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Cell Physiology; Cancer Biology; Molecular Medicine,
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Pathogenesis of Cataracts, Role of Lens Fiber Connexins

Puwat Charukamnoetkanok, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine
Corneal Endothelial Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

Michael Cho, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UIC College of Engineering
Professor, (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment) Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Manipulation of Stem Cell Differentiation by Noninvasive Electrical Stimulus

Lisa Ebihara, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Rosalind Franklin University
of Medicine & Sciences
Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Role of Gap Junctional Communication in the Lens

Robert Folberg, MD
Professor of Pathology and Dean, Beaumont School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine

Ken-Ichiro Fukuchi, MD, PhD
Professor,  Cancer Biology and Pharmacology, UI College of Medicine-Peoria
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Therapeutic Delivery of Single Chain Antibody for Alzheimer’s Disease

Richard A. Gemeinhart, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics and Bioengineering,
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UIC College of Pharmacy
Associate Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Understanding and Preventing Tumor Dispersal with Hydrogel Therapeutics

Jonathan J. Henry, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Basis of Lens Development

John R. Hetling, PhD
Associate Professor,  Department of Bioengineering, UIC College of Engineering
Associate Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Multi-Electrode Electroretinography: Toward Single-Flash Mapping of Retinal Function

Jie Liang, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UIC College of Engineering
Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
High-Accuracy Models of Proteins from Remote Homology Computational Assembly of Beta
Barrel Membrane Protein

Deborah M. Little, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine
Anatomical Correlates of Executive Function Decline in Normal Aging

Ana S. Lukic, PhD
Senior Research Engineer, Predictek LLC
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine
Multispectral Diagnostic Imaging of the Iris

Robert Paul Malchow, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Synaptic Mechanisms in the Vertebrate Retina; Neural-glial Interactions; Transport Processes

Asrar Malik, PhD
Professor and Department Head, Department of Pharmacology
Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Endothelial Progenitor Cell Treatment of Lung Vascular Injury

Daniel Roberts, OD, MS
Professor, Illinois College of Optometry Clinical
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine
Family Study of CTRP5 Mutation, Long Zonules, Macular Degeneration and Glaucoma

William H. Seiple, PhD
Director, Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute, New York
Adjunct Professor, Departement of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine

Janet P. Szlyk, PhD
Executive Director, Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
Adjunct Professor, UIC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Adjunct Professor, UIC Department of Psychology
Adjunct Professor, UIC Department of Bioengineering

Lin Tao, DDS., PhD
Professor, Department of Oral Biology, UIC College of Dentistry
Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Lactobacilli: Blocking HIV/HSV by Mannose Binding

Chandani Udawatte, PhD
Instructor, UIC Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Instructor, (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in Diabetes

Miles Wermick, PhD
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
UIC College of Medicine
Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision, Optics

David E. Vaillancourt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of, Kinesiology and Nutrition, UIC College of
Applied Health Sciences
Assistant Professor (UIC Joint Courtesy Appointment), Department of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences, UIC College of Medicine
Role of Cortex and Cerebellum in Visually-Guided Motor Behavior