
Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH holds the Nathan E. Miles Endowed Chair and is Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wheaton College, Massachusetts and received the PhD in Experimental Psychology from Cornell University and the MSPH in Epidemiology from UAB. Dr. Owsley’s research program focuses on aging-related eye disease and vision impairment, using many techniques including psychophysics, epidemiology, clinical trials, and health services research. Two of her research areas are functional biomarkers in early age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and relationships to retinal structure, and vision impairment and driving, including the identification of visual/cognitive risk factors for increased motor vehicle collision rates and driving performance problems. Dr. Owsley has been continuously funded by NIH since 1983 and has over 300 publications indexed in PubMed.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Owsley has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Sanofi - Consultant
- National Eye Institute, National Institute on Aging Centers for Disease Control - Grants