Service Director, Randy Kardon M.D., Ph.D., has been part of the neuro-ophthalmology faculty in this Department since 1989. He has continued the Iowa tradition of interest in pupillary questions and has taken pupillary research to a new level of technical sophistication. He is recognized as an important innovator; he has developed several new tests for examining visual function, and has a number of national competitive grants supporting his pupil studies. In addition he is known as an astute diagnostician, an effective teacher and is a much sought after lecturer.

Chris A. Johnson, Ph.D. received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, his doctorate from Penn State University and an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York. After postdoctoral training in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Florida, he was a faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis for approximately 17 years, and was then a research scientist and director of diagnostic research at Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon for 10.5 years. Dr. Johnson has received considerable research funding throughout his career and has more than 300 publications. He has also been active in several multicenter clinical trials, developing and maintaining several visual field reading centers, and has participated in many collaborative studies with companies in the private sector and has served on a number of national and international committees.

Dr. Johnson is the director of the University of Iowa Visual Field Reading Center.

Andrew Lee, M.D. is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences as well as the UVA School of Medicine. He completed his ophthalmology residency and was the chief resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1993. Following residency, Dr. Lee completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology with Neil R. Miller MD at the Wilmer Eye Institute and was a post-doctoral Fight for Sight fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has published over 260 peer reviewed articles, 40 book chapters, and two full textbooks in ophthalmology. Dr. Lee serves on the Editorial Board of 12 journals including the American Journal of Ophthalmology, the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, and Eye and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Academic Ophthalmology. He has received the Academy Honor Award, Secretariat Award, and Senior Achievement Award. Dr. Lee is currently Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery in the H. Stanley Thompson Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Steven F. Stasheff, M.D., Ph.D. received his B.A. in Biology and Physics summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. His MD and PhD were earned at Duke University, where he trained in electrophysiology, studying axon terminal hyperexcitability induced by in vitro epileptogenesis. He then trained in pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and in child neurology at Children's Hospital - Boston. Aftwewards, he completed a Neurological Sciences Academic Development Award (NSADA) under the mentorship of Richard H. Masland, PhD at Massachusetts General Hospital, investigating mechanisms of direction selectivity in a particular highly specialized ganglion cell of the retina. Simultaneously, he trained in neuro-ophthalmology under Jason J.S. Barton, MD, PhD, FRCPC at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Thomas Hedges, III, MD at New England Medical Center. He joined the faculty of the University of Iowa in Pediatrics (Neurology) and Ophthalmology in the Fall of 2008. His research interests center on the fundamental physiologic mechanisms of neurologic diseases affecting the visual system, and on the role that central nervous system (CNS) plasticity may play in both the pathogenesis and potential treatments for such disorders.

Michael Wall, M.D. is a neurologist who trained as a neuro-ophthalmologist in Boston. Dr. Wall has been part of the Neuro-ophthalmology faculty at Iowa since 1991. Before that he had been a neuro-ophthalmologist at Tulane University in New Orleans. Although based in the Neurology Department, Dr Wall staffs the Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic in the Eye Department on certain days of the week. He has a special clinical interest in increased intracranial pressure and its effect on vision. Dr Wall is also an expert on testing the visual fields and a respected investigator on the subtleties of this important test.

H. Stanley Thompson, M.D., M.S. founded the Neuro-ophthalmology Unit in Iowa City, was its director for 30 years (1967-1997) and is now retired. His interest in the workings of the pupil of the eye stimulated pupillary research in Iowa City and made Iowa known around the world as a place where unusual pupillary problems might be solved.

Mary Stever Terrill, COA is our clinical technician. Mary does the preliminary examination and some of the tests for most of the patients in our clinic.

Ramona Weber is our service secretary.