Careers for the Vision Science Graduate

Our alumni are represented on the faculty of world-class universities - in medical schools, schools of optometry, and a wide range of other disciplines spanning psychology, physiology, bioengineering, and ophthalmology.

Many others hold research positions in private institutes and federally sponsored agencies, including NASA and the NIH. Still others are to be found in the research and development divisions of industry; currently, ophthalmic and biotechnology companies are among the major recruiters of our graduates.

While some of our alumni decide to extend their graduate training through postdoctoral research, many have entered successful and prestigious careers immediately after obtaining their research degrees.

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Representative Positions Taken by Our Alumni

Faculty

Indiana University, School of Optometry, Bloomington, IN (Assistant Professor)
Pacific University, College of Optometry, Forest Grove, OR (Assistant Professor)
Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton, CA (Assistant Professor)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Ophthalmology (Assistant Professor)
University of Auckland, Australia, Dept. of Ophthalmology (Assistant Professor)
University of California, Berkeley (Assistant Clinical Professor)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Dept. of Psychology (Assistant Professor)
University of Texas, Austin, TX (Assistant Professor)
Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, MI (Kresge Eye Institute)
Yale School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurobiology (Assistant Professor)

Federal Government (military)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Livermore, CA (Researcher)
NASA Ames National Laboratory, Caelum Research, Inc., Moffett Field, CA (Intelligent Mechanisms Group)
U.S. Army, Aircrew Health & Performance Div., Fort Rucker, AL (Researcher, non-faculty)
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (Researcher, non-faculty)

Postdoctoral Research

Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
NASA Ames Research Center, National Laboratory, Moffett Field, CA (Postdoctoral appointment, Human Interface Processing Research Branch)
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (Dept. of Psychology)
University of California, Berkeley (Molecular & Cell Biology)
University of California, San Francisco (Dept. of Anatomy, School of Medicine)
University of Glasgow, Scotland (Dept. of Psychology; Visiting Fellow)
University of Pennsylvania (Dept. of Psychology)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Dept. of Psychology)

Private Sector Research (non-faculty)

Allergan, Irvine, CA (Senior Scientist, Biological Sciences)
Amgen, Inc., CA (Senior Scientist, Research and Development)
Devers Eye Institute, Portland, OR (Scientist)
Fendalton Eye Clinic, Christchurch, New Zealand (Researcher, non-faculty)
Genentech, South San Francisco, CA (Research Scientist)
Guidant Systems, Santa Clara, CA (Medical Devices, Preclinical Research)
Kaiser Permanente (Researcher)
Paravue Corp., Oakland, CA(Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder)
Quintiles Strategic Research Services, San Francisco, CA (Late phase clinical trials design / implementation)
Lighthouse for the Blind, New York (Researcher)
SiPix Corp, Milpitas, CA (Researcher)
Sun Microsystems, CA (Engineer; Human Factors Engineering)
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA (Research)
VISX Corp., CA (Research and Development)

University (non-faculty)

Oregon Health & Science University, Div. Medicine, Dept. Ophthalmol., Portland, OR
University of California, San Francisco, CA (Project Director, Prevention Sciences Group)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (Senior Research Optometrist)
Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (Researcher)