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Arvind Chandna
Chandna Lab (SEELAB)

Arvind Chandna

Senior Clinician-Scientist/Pediatric Ophthalmologist & Adult Strabismus Surgeon
Degrees: M.D. (Doctorate of Medicine, Bristol University. UK)
D.O. (Royal College of Ophthalmologists. UK)
FRCS (Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. UK)
FRCOphth (Royal College of Ophthalmologists. UK)

I am a Senior Clinician Scientist at Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI) conducting research programmes dealing with significant gaps in clinical and scientific knowledge of common childhood eye conditions with poor management outcomes, and investigate them in collaboration with SKERI’s vision scientists. I have put together some of the clinical challenges as research questions to be investigated with a view to improving diagnosis and intervention and ultimately resulting in improved patient outcomes. My main interests are to determine the relationship of accommodation and vergence in strabismus; assessment of patterns of visual function loss in amblyopia and cerebral visual impairment. My research programmes investigate visual brain neuroscience and oculomotor behavior using eye tracking, photorefraction, psychophysics and visually evoked brain potentials in childhood eye disease. I work with a team of young scientists and collaborate nationally and internationally with senior scientists both at SK and other institutions laboratories; children and parents of affected children; and, teachers of the visually impaired children with specific expertise in the areas of investigation. such as cerebral visual impairmen; amblyopia and strabismus, childhood cataract and visual function in children who are monocular. Previously, I worked for 25 years as a Consultant Pediatric Ophthalmologist and Strabismus Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK. My clinical training was at university teaching hospitals in Delhi, London, Manchester, Bristol, Miami and San Francisco. My research training at Bristol University was in application of preferential looking techniques in of normal and abnormal visual development. I completed my pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus clinical fellowship with Professor John Flynn at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami and Dr Arthur Jampolsky and Dr Alan Scott at Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI) in San Francisco.  

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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center

The Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers

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Patterns of Visual Deficits in Amblyopia

Background Amblyopia means blunted sight in the Greek language and is a term clinicians use to describe decreased vision usually in one eye most commonly due to a focusing error (refractive error in one eye, very different from other eye - anisometropia) and/or a misalignment between the two eyes (strabismus or squint). Amblyopia is sometimes called “lazy eye”. This is different than being just near or far sighted which is a refractive error usually similar and in both eyes developing at any age and vision improves instantly on prescribing and wearing spectacles to correct the error.

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Welcome to CVI@SKI

We are a Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute sponsored,Little Learners Program, Lighthouse for the Blind, San Francisco supported information, communication research advocacy group consisting of SKI researchers, select clinicians, teachers of the visually impaired, and parents of children with cerebral visual impairment.

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Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI): An in-depth study of visual functioning in everyday life

The purpose of this research study is to learn about how cerebral visual impairment affects everyday visually guided behaviours and determine interventions to treat the difficulties. This study is conducted remotely through telephone or video link and also in person at the laboratory.

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Investigating Reading in Individuals with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)

In this project, we aim to understand (i) how CVI affects reading, (ii) how current rehabilitation techniques or assistive technologies help improve reading in CVI and (iii) what more can be done to assist those individuals with CVI

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Reading in mTBI

People with mTBI often complain about dificulty in reading in spite of normal results in usual eye exams. We investigate this issue by looking at accommodation and reading rate and subjective measurement of reading difficuties for a variaty of reading tasks in normal and mTBI population. ...

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Eye Movements and Accommodation Patterns in Strabismus

Strabismus misaligned eyes is a common developmental condition in young children that can lead to amblyopia or poor vision and other forms of low vision. This project looks at the eye movements in relation to accommodation or focusing power in these patients to determine predictors of strabismus and outcome of treatment, with the goal of improving early detection, intervention and treatment.

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Calibration of Eccentric Power Refractor

Eccentric power refractors need to be calibrated for accommodation and gaze position for individual participants. Calibration however can be time consuming. We look at different conditions in which calibration is necessary or preferable. 

This project is now completed. Please see the...

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