The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
James Coughlan has worked for The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute since 2012, initially as a Scientist and currently as the Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Blindness and Low Vision. Prior to that, they worked as a Scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Institute from 2003 to 2012.
James Coughlan obtained a PhD in Physics from Harvard University, attending from 1992 to 1998.
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The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, a nonprofit independent research institute, is located in Pacific Heights in San Francisco. Dedicated to research on human vision, it was founded to encourage a productive collaboration between the medical clinic and the scientific laboratory. Smith-Kettlewell conducts research on many different topics, but its main interests are: * Clinical studies which relate directly to the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases and disorders. * The development of devices and vocational programs to aid the partially sighted, blind and hearing impaired - the major focus of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Research Center (RERC). * Basic research to understand how the eye and brain work, providing a fundamental background for both the clinical and rehabilitation programs.