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Volunteer Editors

The Volunteer Editor Program provides free editorial guidance for IOVS authors needing assistance with English grammar and usage. Volunteer editors should be utilized prior to submitting a manuscript for publication consideration. To contact a volunteer editor, please click on the e-mail address of the editor whose expertise most closely matches yours. Inquiries may also be directed to the IOVS Editorial Office at iovs{at}arvo.org.

Geoffrey Arden, PhD

Expertise: Geoffrey Arden will work with any paper dealing with the back of the eye, but not those about refraction, lens, or cornea unless these result in visual anomalies.

Background: Geoffrey Arden is a professor emeritus now working at City University in London. As a former editor-in-chief of Vision Research, he has had extensive experience turning poorly written papers into "short and intelligible communications."

Che John Connon, PhD
Research Council Fellow in Stem Cells and Nanomaterials
School of Pharmacy
University of Reading, UK

Email:	c.j.connon{at}reading.ac.uk
Tel:	44-(0)118-378-7053
Fax:	448712514665

Expertise: Cornea; corneal stem cells, corneal transparency, stromal wound healing, epithelial attachment and stratification. Amniotic membrane, stem cell transplantation. Microscopy; electron, confocal, immunolabelling.

IOVS Keywords: Basement membrane, Cell adhesion, Cell culture, Cell-matrix interactions, Chloride channels, Collagen, Confocal microscopy, Corneal development, Corneal epithelium, Corneal stroma, Corneal wound healing, Electron microscopy, Image analysis, Immunocytochemistry, Molecular biology, Transparency, Wound healing, Amniotic membrane.

Background: Past research has focused on understanding the role collagen organization plays in corneal development and wounding and how this relates to transparency. More recently, Dr. Connon has been studying epithelial differentiation using corneal stem cells expanded upon amniotic membrane.

Faith Florer, PhD

Expertise: PhD in cognitive psychology, 1997. Specialty is visual psychophysics. She teaches perception at New York University and physiological psychology at Marymount College. Research in letter and word recognition. Before graduate school, she spent years as a copy editor and proofreader.

Stephen Gee, MS, PhD student
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Email:	stephen_gee{at}med.unc.edu
Tel:	(919) 966-0389
Resume:	http://sgee.tripod.com/resume.html

Expertise: Diabetic retinopathy, angiogenic inhibitors, glaucoma, wound healing and advanced glycation end products (AGEs).

IOVS Keywords: aging, angiogenesis, angiostatin, antiglaucoma drugs, antioxidants, apoptosis, aqueous flow, aqueous humor, basement membrane, cell culture, cell cycle, cell-matrix interactions, cell migration, cell proliferation, collagen, corneal endothelial cells, corneal wound healing, corticosteroids, development, diabetes mellitus, diabetic retinopathy, endostatin, endothelial cells, endothelins, epithelial cells, extracellular matrix, fibroblasts, fibroblast growth factor, fibronectin, free radicals, gene array, gene expression, gene knockout, glaucoma, heparin, ischemia, knockout animals, lipid peroxidation, membrane transport, molecular biology, Müller cell, pericyte, phospholipids, PEDF, retinal apoptosis, retinal cell culture, retinal development, retinal ischemia, retinal pericytes, retinal pigment epithelium, retinal proliferation, retinal vasculature, rhodopsin, stem cell, trabecular meshwork, transcription factors, TGF- b, VEGF and wound healing.

Background: Stephen Gee is in the PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. He is currently interested in epithelial cell biology and the apical vs. basolateral targeting of proteins and lipids. As an IOVS Volunteer Editor, he has edited the papers "A Significant Role of Stromal Fibroblasts in Rapidly Progressive Dry Eye in Patients with Chronic GVHD" [Abstract], "Expression and Function of Receptors for Advanced Glycation End Products in Bovine Corneal Endothelial Cells" [Abstract], and "Rat Corneal Allograft Survival Prolonged by the Superantigen Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B" [Abstract].

Haroutioun Hassessian, PhD

Expertise: Blood vessels of the retina in relation to signal transduction by VEGF. Vascular biology, pharmacology, patch clamp electrophysiology, biochemistry, calcium mechanisms, in-vivo experimentation, cellular-molecular biology, signal transduction biology and receptor pharmacology. He is with l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont in Montreal and is fluent in French.

James M. Hill, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Microbiology
LSU Eye Center
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA 70112-2234

Email:	jhill{at}lsuhsc.edu
Tel:	504-412-1328
Fax:	504-412-1315

Expertise: Pathogenesis and chemotherapy of viral and bacterial keratitis, unique drug delivery systems.

IOVS Keywords: Anti-inflammatory agents, antiviral agents, apoptosis, Chlamydia, corneal inflammation, corticosteroids, cytomegalovirus (CMV), drug delivery, drug penetration, endocytosis, gene array, gene expression, herpes simplex keratitis, host defense system, in situ hybridization, interferons, intravitreal drug delivery, keratitis, oligonucleotides, polymerase chain reaction, prodrugs, rabbit, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, Staphylococcus aureus, virus factor, virus infection. Other Keywords: bacterial keratitis, HSV neuronal latency, neurovirology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Varicella Zoster virus (VZV).

Background: Jim Hill is a Professor of Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Microbiology (Virology) in the School of Medicine at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He is a virologist and pharmacologist who has investigated and developed animal models of viral and bacterial keratitis and studies drug delivery to the cornea and the vitreous. He is especially interested in neurovirology, neuronal latency, reactivation and recurrent disease, specifically those involving herpes simplex virus type 1. Dr. Hill is on the Editorial Board of Current Eye Research and reviews for numerous journals including IOVS, Virology, Journal of Virology, and Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Geeta Kadambi, PhD

Expertise: Proteomics and genomics.

Background: Geeta Kadambi is a faculty fellow at NASA Ames Research Center and an adjunct faculty at Cal State Hayward and teaches bioinformatics at UCSC-extension and Cal State Hayward.

Colleen A. McMullen
Scientist II
Dept. of Physiology
University of Kentucky
800 Rose St
MS508
Lexington, KY 40536

Email:	Colleen.McMullen{at}uky.edu
Tel:	859-323-9443
Fax:	859-323-1070

Expertise: eye muscles, ocular motor neurons, biochemistry, molecular biology.

IOVS Keywords: Aging, animal model (rat, mouse), apoptosis, carbonic anhydrase, color vision, cytoskeleton, dark adaptation, electron microscopy, extraocular muscle, gene expression, immunocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, micro array, molecular biology, neurotransmitters, oculomotor mechanics and neurons, PCR, psychophysics, transgenic animals.

David S. Rho, MD
Wills Eye Hospital
Retina Service

Email:	dsrho{at}yahoo.com
Tel:	215-288-5000
Fax:	215-288-3353

Expertise: Dr. Rho is a board-certified vitreo-retinal specialist with particular interests in diabetic retinopathy and macular surgery.

Rick van der Zwan, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology
James Cook University
Lecturer
Southern Cross University

Email:	ricky.vanderzwan{at}jcu.edu.au
Tel:	61 7 4042 1623
Fax:	61 2 4042 1390

Expertise: Binocular rivalry, glass patterns, orientation processing, form perception, symmetry perception, visual perception.

IOVS Keywords: form perception, glass patterns, symmetry, binocular rivalry, orientation processing, skin lesion.

Background: Rick is a vision scientist and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology at James Cook University. Rick lectures in research methods and human sensation and perception at Southern Cross University. Rick's research interests involve psychophysical investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying human form perception. Rick is also interested in visual perception in animals and is currently investigating perception in flying foxes. With colleagues in health psychology he is also investigating strategies for early detection of skin cancers.

John Wellard, PhD

Expertise: Retinal neurochemistry, with specialization in retinal metabolism and retinal degeneration, particularly in relation to RP. He is currently with Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut der Universtität in Tübingen, Germany.

Mary P. White, PhD

Expertise: The retina. Mary taught science writing to biology upperclassmen for the last two years at San Jose State University. English was a second, third or even fourth language for many of her students.

Simon Whiteley

Expertise: Retinal transplantation and visual function testing in rodents. To varying degrees, he also has knowledge of the cell biology of retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. He has some basic language skills in French and German, but is not fluent.