Elise B. Ciner, OD, FAAO

Position:

• Associate Professor of Optometry
• Co-Director Special Populations Assessment and Rehabilitation Center

Areas of Interest:

• Clinical research
• Pediatric Optometry, Vision Therapy and Vision and Learning

About:

Dr. Ciner received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University. After earning her Doctor of Optometry degree from the New England College of Optometry, she completed a residency in vision training at the State University of New York, College of Optometry.

For the past 25 years, Dr. Ciner has been an optometric educator and researcher at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) where she teaches Pediatric Optometry and Human Development courses. Dr. Ciner evaluates children with special needs in the Pediatric and Binocular Vision service at The Eye Institute and provides electrophysiology services to patients of all ages. She helped develop the Infant Vision Service as well as the Special Populations Assessment and Rehabilitation Centers at PCO. While doing so, she maintains a strong interest in clinical research, having served as the principal investigator for the Vision in Preschoolers Study (VIP) as well as the Myopia Family Study, both funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This innate focus on research led to the development of the Preschool Assessment of Stereopsis with a Smile (“PASS”) test used by practitioners to measure depth perception in young children.

Dr. Ciner is a fellow in the American Academy of Optometry and an associate in the College of Optometry and Vision Development. She has served on numerous panels related to health care and learning related vision problems. With over 60 published articles and chapters to her credit, she also lectured throughout the country. In addition to her responsibilities at Salus University, Dr. Ciner maintains a private practice where she sees children and adults with binocular vision, focusing and learning related vision disorders.