Adrian Glasser, PhD
Houston, TX

Adrian Glasser, Ph.D. is the Benedict-Pitts Professor of Optometry and Vision Sciences and Biomedical Engineering and at the University of Houston. Dr. Glasser completed his B.S. (biology), a M.S. in neurobiology at the New York State University, and a Ph.D. in physiology from Cornell University, NY. in 1994. Dr. Glasser’s PhD research was studying the mechanisms of accommodation in the avian eye under Howard Howland, Ph.D. He completed a first postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Waterloo, School of Optometry with Melanie Campbell, Ph.D. studying optics, accommodation and aging of the human lens and a second postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Paul Kaufman, M.D studying ciliary muscle function in relation to accommodation and presbyopia in non-human primates.

Dr. Glasser has published over 60 publications in this area and has been the recipient of several international named lectures/awards including “2009 Outstanding Achievement in Presbyopia” by the International Society of Presbyopia (ISOP), the 2009 Pearce Medal Lecture by the United Kingdom and Ireland Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (UKISCRS), the 2010 Frederick H. Verhoeff Lecturer by the American Ophthalmological Society (AOS) and the 2010 JD Allen Lecturer by the University of Ottawa Eye Institute,Canada. Dr. Glasser also serves as a consultant to several companies with interests in accommodation and presbyopia and accommodation restoration concepts.