Professor
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Professor, Vision Science Research Program, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network
Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Hospital
BSc (Aston), PhD (Aston), FAAO, MCOptom
Email: jgflanag@uwaterloo.ca
Telephone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 33176
Fax: 519-725-0784
Office: OPT 253
Labs: OPT 221 and 222, ext. 36322
Website: www.optometry.uwaterloo.ca/~flanlab
Biography
John Flanagan is a Professor at both the School of Optometry, University of Waterloo and the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto. He is Director of the Glaucoma Research Unit, Toronto Western Research Institute and a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He graduated in Optometry and Vision Sciences from Aston University, Birmingham, UK in 1980, where he later earned his PhD in 1985.
He currently holds 3 research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has supervised 26 graduate students. He has authored over 120 peer reviewed publications, 10 book chapters, 3 books, a CDRom on “Automated Perimetry” and has given numerous invited lectures to both professional and academic audiences around the world. Awards include Claire Bobier Lecturer, University of Waterloo; Certificate of Merit for Research Excellence, Glaucoma Research Society of Canada; Springer Lecturer, University of Alabama; and the 2004 Glenn A Fry Award from the AAO. The award is given to a “distinguished Scientist or Clinician for his or her current research contributions.” He was a plenary lecturer at the 2003 AAO meeting, and in July 2005 was appointed to the faculty of the inaugural World Glaucoma Congress. He was a founding member of the Optometric Glaucoma Society, was the Program Chair from 2002 to 2007, and is currently the OGS President. He is chair of the AAO Admittance Committee (scientist's region) and a member of the Ocular Disease section's glaucoma diplomate committee. In 2007 he was a recipient of an “Outstanding Performance Award” from the University of Waterloo. In 2008 he was appointed Chair of the Human Clinical Research Ethics committee at the University of Waterloo.
Research
Glaucoma
- Pathophysiology of glaucoma
- Cell culture model of glaucoma, capable of manipulating biomechanical stretch and ischemia
- Biomechanics of the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve
- Ocular hemodynamics
- Clinical psychophysics and imaging
- Aspects of spatial and temporal vision processing
- Structure/function relationships
- Sleep
- Diurnal variation in ONH topography, IOP, blood pressure and ocular perfusion
Diabetic eye disease
- Particular interest in diabetic macular edema and its natural history
- Ocular hemodynamics in diabetes
- Clinical psychophysics and imaging
Dr. Flanagan is an approved PhD supervisor.
Clinic duties
- registered optometrist, MCOptom (UK)
- supervising clinician: Ocular Health
- clinical interests: Ocular disease
Teaching interests
Undergraduate courses
Graduate courses in vision science
- OPTOM 616: Research Methodology for Vision Science
Additional information
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