OMLAB - Key Persons


Alessandro Serra

Alessandro Serra is a Case Western Reserve University Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory. His research interests are saccade pathophysiology, eye-movement disorders, in particular saccade abnormalities, congenital and acquired nystagmus.

B. Todd Troost

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team

Bernd F. Remler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1990 - 1999 )

Carl Ellenberger Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1980 - 1983 )

Faruk Orge

Job Titles:
  • Co - Investigator 2009 - Present )

J. Lawton Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1970 - 1980 )

Janet C. Rucker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 2003 - 2005 )

Joel S. Glaser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1970 - 1980 )

John S. Stahl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1996 - 2000 )
John S. Stahl, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a Staff Neurologist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Stahl is a Principal Investigator of the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory with both VA Merit Review and NIH-NEI funding.

John T. Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1970 - 1980 )

Jonathan B. Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 2005 - 2008 )
Jonathan B. Jacobs, Ph.D., is an Instructor in the Department of Neurology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Jacobs is a Principal Investigator of the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory. His research interests include Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome (INS -- previously known as "Congenital Nystagmus" or CN), Fusion Maldevelopment Nystagmus Syndrome (FMNS -- previously known as "Latent/Manifest Latent Nystagmus" or LMLN), and other disorders of the ocular motor system that interfere with the ability to maintain steady fixation. He is starting a new line of investigation into the use of eye movement analysis to help diagnose mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) in veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).

Larry A. Abel

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team

Lea Averbuch-Heller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1996 - 2000 )

Louis F. Dell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Principal Investigators

Louis Stokes Cleveland

Job Titles:
  • Department of Veterans

Mark F. Walker

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Associate Professor of Neurology
  • Co - Investigator 2007 - 2008 )
Mark F. Walker, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurology, at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a Staff Neurologist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Walker is a Principal Investigator of the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory.

R. John Leigh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Director 2010 - 2014 ) Principal and Co - Investigators
R. John. Leigh, M.D., is the Blair-Daroff Professor of Neurology, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosciences at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a Staff Neurologist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Leigh is a Principal Investigator of the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory with both VA Merit Review and NIH-NEI funding.

Robert B. Daroff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Director 1970 - 1980 )
  • Director Emeritus )

Robert L. Tomsak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team

Robert N. Sawyer Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team

Thorne Shipley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Directors and Co - Directors Team
  • Co - Investigator 1970 - 1980 )