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Don Hood is the James F. Bender Professor of Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology) has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1969. He holds a B.A. from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton, M.Sc. and Ph.D. (1970) degrees from Brown University and an honorary degree from Smith College (2000). From 1982 to 1987 he served as Vice President for the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He was on the Board of Trustees of Smith College for 10 years serving as its Vice Chair from 1991 to 1999 and has been on the Board of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation since 1996, the Board (Corporation) of Brown University since 2002 and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology since 2004. He also serves on the editorial boards of IOVS, Vision Research, J. of Vision and Documenta Ophthalmologica. Many of his over 200 publications deal with issues of the basic neuroscience of vision while others, in collaboration with ophthalmologists, concern diseases of eye (retina) and optic nerve. His current interest include studying the relationship between structural and functional measures of damage due to diseases. The structural measure used is time domain and frequency domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the functional measures include visual fields, ERG (standard and multifocal), and VEPs (standard and multifocal). The diseases studied include glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, and optic neuritis/multiple sclerosis (MS)." |
