Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Doctor of Optometry

Traditional Program

Faculty

• Dean
  Linda Casser
• Associate Dean, The Foundations of Optometric Medicine
  Melissa Trego
• Interim Associate Dean, The Practice of Optometric Medicine
  Linda Casser
• Associate Dean and Director, International Optometric Programs
  Abraham Gonen
• Director, Residency Program
  Shital Mani
• Director, Advanced Studies Program
  Melissa Vitek
  
• Director, Traineeship Program
  Helene M. Kaiser
• Director, Internship Program
  Jean Marie Pagani
• Director, Externship Program
  Maria Parisi
• Director, Integrative Studies
  Joan Wing
• Professors
  G. Richard Bennett, Irving Bennett, Pierrette Dayhaw-Barker, Connie Chronister, Elise Ciner, Anthony F. Di Stefano, Alexander Dizhoor, Teresa Duda, Andrew S. Gurwood, Thomas L. Lewis, Teng Leng Ooi, Mitchell Scheiman, John B. Siegfried, Joel A. Silbert, Joseph Toland
• Professor Emeritus
  Felix M. Barker II
• Distinguished Professor
  Rameshwar Sharma
• Associate Professors
  Sarah Appel, Bernard Blaustein, Richard L. Brilliant,Edward Deglin, Michael F. Gallaway, Abraham Gonen, Helene M. Kaiser, Lorraine Lombardi, Holly Myers, Jeffrey Nyman, Neal N. Nyman, Susan Oleszewski, Jean Marie Pagani, Maria Parisi, Christopher Rinehart, Joseph P. Ruskiewicz, Marvin B. Smith, Michael R. Spinell, Robert Walker, Joan Wing, Charles Wormington
• Assistant Professors
  Gwenn Amos, James M. Caldwell, DeGaulle Chigbu, Robert Cole, Lynne Greenspan, Harry Kaplan, Anne-Marie Lahr, Keith Lammers, Kelly Malloy, Shital Mani, Lawrence H. McClure, Jamie Ellsworth Neiman, Gale Orlansky, Carlo Pelino, Francine Pearlman-Storch, Paul Robinson, Glenn Roedel, John Mark Snyder, Lynn Hong Trieu, Satya Verma
• Instructors
  Joanne Bailey, Kerry Lueders, Elena Olshevskaya, Igor Peshenko, Brandy Scombardi-Raghu, Melissa Trego
• Optometric Educators
  Janet Swiatocha-Delatte
• Adjunct Faculty International Optometric Programs
  Bente-Monica Aakre, M.Phil., Glasgow Caledonian University (Norway)
  Andreas Allmoslechner, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Switzerland)
  Yoram Biger, MD, Hebrew University (Israel)
  Luigi Bilotto, BS, McGill University; OD, University of Montreal, School of Optometry (Canada)
  Mike Boulton, PhD, University of Florida – Gainesville  (United Kingdom)
  Jan Richard Bruenech, BSc, PhD, City University, London (Norway)
  Wolfgang Cagnolati, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry; D.Sc.(Germany)
  Richard Corea, O.D, Ohio State University College of Optometry
  Kjell Inge Daae, MSc, University of Trondheim (Norway)
  Raphael Eschmann, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Switzerland)
  Walter Gutstein, BSc, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Austria)
  Inga-Britt K. Haugen, M.Phil., City University, London (Norway)
  Gunnar Horgen, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry; PhD, University of Oslo (Norway)
  Imran Khan, MS, OD, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
  Kovin Naidoo, BSc, B.Optom, University of Durban-Westville; MPH, Temple University; OD, Pennsylvania College of Optometry; PhD, University of New South Wales (Australia)
  Vibeke Sundling, MSc, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (Norway)
• Emeriti Administrator & Faculty
  Gilda Crozier, Professor, OD, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
  Bernard Witlin, Professor, D.Sc., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science
• Consulting Ophthalmologists
  James S. Lewis, MD
  Amiram Shapiro, MD
  Elliot B. Werner, MD