Donald C. Hood, the James F. Bender Professor of Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology), has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1969. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. (1970) degrees from BrownUniversity and honorary degrees from Smith College (2000) and Brown University (2017). He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of an Alcon Research Institute Award (2014). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IOVS and is on the editorial boards of IOVS (since 1992), Documenta Ophthalmologica (since 2004), and J. of Glaucoma (since 2016); and he previously served on the boards of Translational Vision Science & Technology (2011-2017), Progress in Retinal and Eye Reseach (2016-2018), and J. of Vision (2004-2012). While some of his over 300 publications deal with issues of the basic neuroscience of vision, most of his work over the last 25 years has concerned research on diseases of the retina and optic nerve. He has had continuous grant support from NIH/NEI for over 45 years.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Hood has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
- Topcon, Inc.
- Heidelberg Engineering, Inc.
- Novartis