Our Editorial Advisory Board

The AllAboutVision.com Editorial Advisory Board was formed to ensure that this website offers as much interesting and accurate information about eyecare and eyewear as possible. Members include leading ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, and other eyecare professionals.

Joseph T. Barr, OD, MS
In July 2007 Dr. Barr joined Bausch & Lomb as vice president, global R&D for its vision care business. For the previous 24 years, he was with The Ohio State University College of Optometry in various capacities including Associate Dean for Clinical Services and Professional Programs, and Chief of the Contact Lens Clinical Service. Dr. Barr was editor of the professional journal Contact Lens Spectrum for two decades, and served as a research optometrist for Dow Corning Ophthalmics from 1980 to 1983. He received his doctor of optometry, masters degree in physiological optics and residency certificate in contact lenses from The Ohio State University College of Optometry.

Brian Boxer Wachler, MD
Dr. Boxer Wachler is a board-certified ophthalmologist and refractive surgeon who is in private practice in Beverly Hills, California. He obtained his undergraduate degree from UCLA in psychobiology, attended Edinburgh University in Scotland on a Rotary Scholarship and completed his medical school training at Dartmouth. He served his ophthalmology residency at Saint Louis University Eye Institute and his refractive surgery fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Previously he was director of the UCLA Refractive Laser Center at the Jules Stein Eye Institute; his current practice is the Boxer Wachler Vision Institute. Dr. Boxer Wachler has served as an investigator in 13 FDA clinical trials evaluating new refractive surgery technologies. He is a faculty member at UCLA and is on the staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He has lectured on LASIK and other types of refractive surgery to thousands of eye surgeons from around the world, has authored more than 100 articles and book chapters, and has educated more than 1,000 doctors on refractive surgery. He was the 2003 recipient of a Career Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and was named one of the best ophthalmologists in the United States by Consumers' Research Council of America. His practice websites are at www.boxerwachler.com and www.keratoconusinserts.com.

Michael DePaolis, OD
Dr. DePaolis is in private practice in Rochester, N.Y. He is chief optometric editor of Primary Care Optometry News, adjunct clinical professor of optometry, Pennsylvania College of Optometry, and adjunct clinical associate, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine. His research has been published in International Contact Lens Clinic Journal, Journal of the American Optometric Association, Ophthalmic Surgery, Review of Optometry, Optometric Management, and Contact Lens Spectrum, among others. Dr. DePaolis's work has also been presented at numerous scientific meetings, journal panel discussions and symposia. He is a member of the New York State Optometric Association and the American Optometric Association, and a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. He received a BS in physiological optics and his doctorate of optometry from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.
 

Burt Dubow, OD, FAAO
Dr. Dubow, a senior partner at Insight Eye Care in St. Cloud, Minn., received his doctor of optometry from Pacific University College of Optometry in 1975. He is a past chair of the Contact Lens and Cornea Section of the American Optometric Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, and a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Dubow was editor of Eye Quest Magazine, and has written many articles on contact lenses and patient care internationally. He also has lectured to optometrists, ophthalmologists, pharmacists, and staff in the United States and abroad.

Valerie Kattouf, OD
Dr. Kattouf is an optometrist in private practice and on the faculty at Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, where she lectures on such topics as strabismus, amblyopia, binocular vision disorders and the relationship between vision and learning. She also coordinates the Pediatric/Binocular Vision residency there. And she is an editorial council member of the Journal of Optometric Vision Development. Dr. Kattouf completed a residency in pediatrics and binocular vision at the State University of New York Optometric Center. She has presented at numerous scientific meetings on pediatric eyecare and strabismus. Dr. Kattouf is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a member of the Illinois Optometric Association and the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.

Mark Mattison-Shupnick, ABOM, BS
Master optician Mark Mattison-Shupnick directs the continuing education program for 20/20 magazine and Vision Monday, owned by the ophthalmic industry's largest trade publisher, Jobson Medical Information LLC. Mattison-Shupnick also is an independent consultant to the ophthalmic industry. His expertise includes market research, product development, project management, and ophthalmic optics training for doctors and staff. Clients have included major lens manufacturers, regional and national chains, and lens processing laboratories, along with optometric management consulting and buying groups. With more than 30 years of experience in the optical industry, Mattison-Shupnick also lectures nationally and internationally. He currently works in retail activities, conducts primary research, participates in product development projects, assists companies with technical marketing needs, and teaches classes on behalf of company, trade, and professional organizations. Mattison-Shupnick belongs to the Opticianry Hall of Fame and also received the Beverly Myers Award for Education from the National Academy of Opticianry.

Charles B. Slonim, MD, FACS
Dr. Charles Slonim is a board-certified ophthalmologist in private practice at the Older and Slonim Eyelid Institute in Tampa, and is affiliate professor of ophthalmology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). Dr. Slonim received Honor Awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 1993 and the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists in 1998. He has lectured extensively to ophthalmologists, optometrists and other physicians in more than 37 cities in 26 countries around the world. He has published 26 ophthalmic journal articles, 15 textbook chapters and five clinical symposia.

Vance Michael Thompson, MD
Dr. Vance Thompson is the director of refractive surgery for Sioux Valley Clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D., and serves as an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. He was the director of refractive surgery at Ophthalmology, Ltd., in Sioux Falls from 1991 through 2003. A leading international researcher in the field of laser vision correction, Dr. Thompson was an investigator with Alcon, Inc. for more than 10 years. He has played a key role in developing the excimer laser for vision correction and also has served as a principal investigator in numerous FDA-monitored clinical trials, studying laser and implant vision correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Dr. Thompson continues to play an important role in the continuing development and refinement of laser and implant vision correction, currently conducting research on various myopic and hyperopic phakic intraocular lens technologies and the AcuFocus corneal inlay. In addition, Dr. Thompson has been published extensively in journals and books and is co-author of a refractive surgery textbook. He also lectures and teaches refractive surgery to thousands of eye surgeons throughout the world.