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Michael A. Sandberg, Ph.D.
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Michael A. Sandberg, Ph.D. received his B.A. from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA in 1969, his M.Sc. from Brown University in Providence, RI in 1972, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. He has been an investigator in the Berman-Gund Laboratory since 1974, except for a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Edgar Auerbach at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel in 1975. He is currently Associate Professor of Ophthalmology in the Berman-Gund Laboratory, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sandberg’s areas of expertise are the psychophysical and electrophysiological assessment of the visual system, physiological and physical optics, data acquisition software, and biostatistics. His accomplishments include the development of a hand-held stimulator-ophthalmoscope for monitoring electrophysiological function within the macula, the implementation of a data acquisition system for detecting submicrovolt full-field electroretinograms in patients with retinitis pigmentosa and other generalized retinal degenerations, and helping to establish that dietary supplementation with vitamin A and omega-3 rich fatty acids slows the course of retinitis pigmentosa. More recently he has been studying the course of cystoid macular edema in retinitis pigmentosa with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Dr. Sandberg has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in ophthalmology journals and several book chapters, mostly concerning retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. He has also served as a reviewer for many ophthalmology journals. Dr. Sandberg received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation in 1981 and has been principal investigator on several National Eye Institute grants. In addition to his research, for the last 10 years Dr. Sandberg has been performing free community screening for eye disease as a member of the Massachusetts Lions. |
