Scientist Emeritus
Ph.D.
I have long been interested in and have studied the value of non-standard vision measures (i.e. measures other than high contrast acuity) as predictors of performance on important tasks of daily life, indicators of retinal status, and predictors of disease progression. I am particularly interested in assessing deficits in task performance in people with diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration.
Contact Information:
Email: mes@ski.org
Office Phone: (415) 345-2106
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Publications
Projects
- ActiveReading in mTBIPeople 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...
- CompletedAssessment of Speechreading with Dual Sensory Loss: Visual and Hearing ImpairmentsThe purpose of this research study is to test subjects who have various hearing and vision problems on their lipreading, visual and auditory skills in order to understand the relationships...
- Reading, Vision Function and Disease Progression in Early to Intermediate AMDMost prior research on reading in people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has focused on those with advanced disease. The first goal of this project is to examine the visual,...
Collaborators
- John BrabynExecutive DirectorIt has been my honor to serve as The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute’s Executive Director since 2011. Previously, I have […]




