Erwin Wong, O.D., Ph.D.
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Erwin
Wong, O.D., Ph.D. Dr. Wong joined
the College in January 2005. He teaches in the professional and
graduate programs and is Principal Investigator of the NIH National
Eye Institute funded research project entitled, “Extrastriate
Visual Cortex Deficits in Amblyopia.” Dr. Wong is from
Honolulu, Hawaii and received his undergraduate education from
the University of Hawaii and professional education from the
Southern California College of Optometry. Following a decade
of clinical practice in ophthalmology and multidisciplinary medical
clinics in Oregon, California and Hawaii, Dr. Wong served as
an instructor at the University of Auckland Department of Optometry,
New Zealand. He then received his graduate education from the
University of Houston College of Optometry, earning a Ph.D. in
physiological optics in May 2003. His postdoctoral research was
completed at the University of California, Berkeley, School of
Optometry and continues at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Wong’s research involves using visual psychophysics
and functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the
neural mechanisms of first-order and second-order spatial vision,
and visual cognition in normal and amblyopic humans. His research
contributes to basic and clinical vision science. Dr. Wong’s
teaching interests include didactic and clinical instruction
in the areas of visual development and amblyopia, visual psychophysics,
and cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Erwin
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