Randy Kardon M.D. Ph.D., is tenured Professor of Ophthalmology, served as Director of the Neuro-ophthalmology Service, and has been faculty at the University of Iowa and Veterans Administration Hospitals for over 30 years. He holds the Pomerantz Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology and is Director of the Iowa City Veterans Administration Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss, funded by the Rehabilitation, Research and Development Division of the Veterans Administration. Dr. Kardon has published over 20 chapters, co-authored a textbook, and has published over 245 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Kardon is presently the Principal Investigator and Co-investigator on 4 major grants externally funded by the Veterans Administration, NIH, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Kardon currently teaches and mentors undergraduate students, medical students, residents and fellows and has received a University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award for his teachings and commitment to education. His main areas of current research interest include use of facial features to diagnose and monitor eye and neurological disorders, pupil physiology and its clinical application, diagnosis and treatment of light sensitivity, traumatic brain injury and its treatment, therapeutic interventions for preserving vision in blinding eye diseases, and investigating structure-function relationships in the visual system using optical coherence tomography (OCT), ocular blood flow, image analysis, and MRI. Dr. Kardon is actively involved in the development of telemedicine tools for objectively evaluating the status of the visual and neurological systems for testing in remote locations.