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Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science

OD and PhD programs at the University of California, Berkeley

02/20/2026

Registration is now open! Join us for the 41st Annual Morgan-Sarver Symposium: a three-day, live online continuing education event taking place April 10–12, 2026.

This COPE-accredited program offers up to 10 hours of CE and includes Berkeley Glaucoma Day — now two hours by popular demand — with the opportunity to earn up to 4 Glaucoma CE hours. COPE-accreditation TBA.

Learn more and register at: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/continuing-education/morgan-symposium/

02/18/2026

Big Give 2026 is next month! On March 12, join the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science community in supporting our mission of advancing optometric education and world-class vision research.

Whether you give to our new Emeryville clinic, the Annual Fund, or the Meredith Morgan Eye Center, your contribution makes a lasting impact. Mark your calendars to help us champion the future of vision care.

Go Bears!

02/14/2026

After a rigorous and thoughtful selection process, we are pleased to announce and congratulate the following faculty members on their appointments as Chiefs of our specialty clinics at Emeryville:

Dr. Anne Tasaki – Pediatrics Clinic
Dr. Celia Gong – Myopia Control Clinic
Dr. Debora Lee Chen – Binocular Vision Clinic
Dr. Samuel Mainieri – Sports Vision Clinic

We are grateful to all who participated in the process, and we look forward to the leadership, expertise, and vision that each of these individuals will bring to their respective clinics. Please join us in congratulating them on these well-deserved appointments.

Learn More: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/specialty-clinic-chiefs-appointed/

02/12/2026

Members of our Low Vision student group volunteered at a Goalball Clinic hosted by BORP Adaptive Sports and Recreation and the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), supporting blind and visually impaired athletes through hands-on drills and gameplay.

Six optometry students – Hanna De Bryun, Harjot Kaur, Suzuka Kawaguchi, Vickie Kuo, Tiffany Ng, and Ananya Parimi – assisted throughout the day, serving as referees and learning about the sport’s history, while also meeting Paralympic silver medalist Joseph Hamilton.

Read More: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/goalball-clinic/

02/10/2026

Save the date for the 41st Annual Morgan-Sarver Symposium: a three-day, live online continuing education event taking place April 10–12, 2026.

This COPE-accredited program offers up to 10 hours of CE and includes Berkeley Glaucoma Day — now two hours by popular demand — with the opportunity to earn up to 4 Glaucoma CE hours. COPE-accreditation TBA.

Registration will open soon, stay tuned for updates!

Learn More: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/continuing-education/morgan-symposium/

02/07/2026

We’re pleased to share two new publications from the lab of Jorge Otero-Millan, advancing research in visual perception and gaze-contingent measurement.

Title: "Distortion of perceived visual space after prolonged horizontal eccentric gaze holding"
Published In: Vision Research
Authors: Terence L. Tyson; Dennis F. Perez; Jorge Otero-Millan

Title: "A method for measuring closed-loop latency in gaze-contingent rendering without extra equipment"
Published In: Behavior Research Methods
Authors: Matt D. Anderson; Emily A. Cooper; Jorge Otero-Millan

Links to each paper are available on our website at:
https://vision.berkeley.edu/posts/new-publications

02/03/2026

We are proud to announce that Associate Director of Admissions Ardi Cruz Samonte been selected as incoming Vice Chair of the Student Affairs and Admissions Professional Group for the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, with his leadership term beginning in July 2026.

In this national role, Ardi will support student affairs and admissions professionals across member institutions while helping advance optometric education. Please join us in congratulating Ardi on this outstanding achievement and continued leadership at Berkeley!

Read More: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/national-leadership-appointment/

01/27/2026

Congratulations to Class of 2025 Optometry Resident Dr. Eva Chung on being selected as the recipient of the 2025 American Academy of Optometry Foundation’s (AAOF) Dr. Douglas Hopkins (Primary) Comprehensive Eye Care Residency Award.

This national honor recognizes outstanding residents in primary eye care. The Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science now proudly counts five Hopkins Award recipients since the award’s inception in 2012!

Learn More: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/celebrating-excellence-in-residency/

01/16/2026

Full-Time Faculty Position Available: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Vision Research

Application Deadline: January 23, 2026 (all application materials must be received by that date).

To learn more and to apply, visit: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/about-us/jobs/

01/14/2026

Registration closes on January 14th, 2026 at 11:59 PM for Berkeley Practicum 2026!

Berkeley Practicum is a three-day virtual Continuing Education (CE) event taking place January 17–19, 2026, and offering up to 12 hours of COPE-accredited CE.

This year’s Karen Walker-Brandreth Lecture will be delivered by D**g Feng Chen, MD, PhD: “Thinking Glaucoma Through the Lens of Neuroinflammation.”

Learn more and register at: https://optometry.berkeley.edu/continuing-education/berkeley-practicum/

01/10/2026

New paper in Vision Research: A collaboration between the Levi Lab (UC Berkeley) and the Verghese Lab (Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute) found a strong link between fusional vergence and both coarse and fine stereopsis across the visual field, supporting the idea that compromised binocular interaction underlies both stereopsis and vergence deficits.

Congratulations to the full research team: Preeti Verghese, Adrien Chopin, Ângela Gomes-Tomaz, Noelia G. Alcalde, and Dennis M. Levi.

Learn More: https://vision.berkeley.edu/posts/new-paper-in-vision-research

01/07/2026

The Spring 2026 Oxyopia lecture schedule has been posted to our website.

Oxyopia is a seminar series featuring lectures on basic, clinical, and applied research in vision. Unless otherwise noted, these lectures take place on Mondays 11:10 am to 12:30 pm in 489 Minor Hall. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Learn More: https://vision.berkeley.edu/events/oxyopia/

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Berkeley, CA
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+15106422020

Website

http://optometry.berkeley.edu/

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