Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Dean and Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science
JOHN G. FLANAGAN is the eighth and inaugural Dean and Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in Optometry and Vision Sciences from Aston University, Birmingham, UK in 1980, where he later earned his PhD in 1985. Until 2014 he was Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo and in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada, where he was Director of the Glaucoma Research Unit, Toronto Western Research Institute and a Senior Scientist...
Co-Founder, Emeritus Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science
Ian Bailey is an optometrist and vision scientist who is an international authority on low vision rehabilitation. He obtained his optometric and research training at the University of Melbourne, The City University in London and Indiana University. In 1967, he began his optometric career in Australia working at the University of Melbourne and then the National Vision Research Institute. Since 1976 he has been at the University of California, Berkeley where he is now an Emeritus Professor of Optometry and Vision Science.
He is perhaps best known for his work with Jan Lovie-Kitchin...
Co-Founder, Director of Research, Assistant Professor of Clinical Optometry, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science
Dr. Sarah Singh (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Optometry at the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry where she also serves as the Director of Research for the Berkeley Vision Institute and is also the co-director of Berkeley's Myopia Control Academy. She enjoys teaching first year OD students about the anatomy of the eye and orbit, expanding the knowledge and clinical skill set of third-year clinicians in our in-house pediatrics clinic, and empowering fourth-year clinicians in the practice of myopia control in our in-house myopia control clinic. When she's not teaching, Dr...
Dr. Kathryn Dumbleton is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Professional Engagement of Berkeley Vision CURE. She completed her optometry training at the University of Wales in Cardiff and at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1985, and subsequently completed her MSc in Physiological Optics and PhD in Vision Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. While at the...