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Vivienne Greenstein, Ph.D.
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Vivienne C. Greenstein Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology in the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University and Research Professor in Ophthalmology at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Greenstein joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University in 2001. She obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia University in the field of experimental psychology. Dr. Greenstein has focused her research on localizing the sites and mechanisms of retinal and optic nerve diseases using behavioral, structural and non-invasive electrophysiological techniques. She has made significant contributions to the study of clinical retinal degenerations. Working with her colleague Professor Donald C. Hood she has studied retinal diseases in patients using two electrophysiological tests – multifocal electroretinography and multifocal visual evoked potentials. Both tests measure and map the electrical activiy in the visual system and are used to track the damage caused by the progression of retinal diseases. She is currently studying the progression of Stargardt disease in patients using the latest non-invasive structural and functional techniques. To gain insight into the disease sequence the changes in retinal structure seen on spectral domain optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence are compared to changes in visual function. Dr. Greenstein has published widely and has written more than 90 articles and chapters. She is also an editor for a journal devoted to clinical ophthalmology and has served as a reviewer for many of the major ophthalmology journals. She has been funded by the National Eye Institute for more than 20 years as a co-investigator, and has received research support from Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Starr Foundation. |
