Date: June 14, 2017
LOOKING GOOD:
Michael Barry, a Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical/Medical Engineering focusing on ultra-low vision at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine i
n Baltimore, has been selected as the ninth annual Envision-Atwell Award winner for research in low vision and vision rehabilitation.
Barry was recognized for his research into the Argus II retinal prosthesis (the world’s first artificial retinal prosthesis) and for his research abstract entitled, "Retinal Prosthesis Users’ Shifts in Hand-camera Coordination Correlate with Changes in Eye Orientation."
His research investigated how eye tracking integrated into a visual prosthesis may be used to estimate and at least partially compensate for changes in hand-camera coordination over time.
He received the award during the May 10 annual meeting of the Low Vision Research Group (LVRG), held inconjunction with the 2017 Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Baltimore.
The Envision-Atwell Award is named in honor of long-time low vision research supporter Constance Atwell, a member of the staff at the National Eye Institute, and is given to an ARVO presenter who is currently a student, post-doctoral researcher, or junior faculty member with fewer than five years having passed since they earned their most recent professional degree. It consists of a $1,000 stipend and a trophy.
Envision, a Wichita, Kan.-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of those who are blind and visually impaired, offers year-round and annual programs designed to advance and disseminate knowledge in the field of vision rehabilitation. For more information, visit envisionuniversity.org.