Michael Twa | The University of Houston College of Optometry
 

Michael Twa, OD, PhD

Michael Twa

I am a clinician scientist by training and recently joined the faculty at The University of Houston College of Optometry in the Fall of 2007. I received my clinical degree from The University of California at Berkeley in 1990. I am an experienced clinician with expertise in refractive surgery and anterior segment disease acquired from nearly a decade of clinical practice in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego.

My doctoral research training was completed at The Ohio State University under the direction of Mark Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, PhD, and Chris Johnson, PhD. My research training emphasized the application of statistical learning, image processing and data mining methods to disease detection and clinical decision making in glaucoma.

My current research funded by the National Institutes of Heath - National Eye Institute is titled:

Spatial Modeling in Glaucoma
. The objectives of this research are to:
  • Model the structural features of the optic nerve head and visual fields acquired from a population of patients with early glaucoma or those at risk for this disease.
  • Assess how characteristic structural and functional features of glaucoma change with disease progression.
  • Determine the predictive value of disease models based on structural progression.

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    Contact Information:

    Michael Twa, OD, PhD
    University of Houston
    College of Optometry
    505 J. Davis Armistead Bldg.
    Houston, TX 77204-2020
    713. 743. 2996
    m_d_t_w_a@uh.edu
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