Titulo: Guía de prescripción de Anteojos para Bebes y Niños Pequeños.

Undergraduate

 9/1982-6/1987 BA University of California, Davis

Professional School

8/1988-6/1992 OD University of California, Berkeley    

Graduate School

8/1996-12/2001 PhD University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Program in Vision Science

Dissertation Title:  “Pterygium Evaluation Project”

Advisor:  Ian L. Bailey, OD, MS

Major Fields:  Vision Science, Public Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology

Chronology of Employment     

7/1987-8/1988 Research Associate, Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis

9/1992-5/1993 Vision Screening Optometrist, Alameda-CCC Optometric Society

9/1992-8/1995 Optometrist, Michael S. Matthews, OD, San Francisco, CA

8/1995-8/1996 Optometrist, Alameda-CCC Optometric Society

1/1994-12/2001 Optometrist, La Clinica de la Raza, Oakland, CA

1/1996-12/2001 Senior Optometrist, University of California, Berkeley

1/2002-9/2002 Research Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Arizona

9/2002-8/2014 Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Arizona

8/2014-Present Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Arizona

9/2015-12/2015 Senior Lecturer, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya

1/2020-Present Professor, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Arizona

Honors and Awards

5/1992 Harold Cohn Award for Best OD Thesis in Clinical Research, University of California, Berkeley

7/1996 Distinguished Service Award, University of California, Berkeley

5/1997 Mentored Clinical Scientist, Development Award (K23), National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

7/1997 Minnie F. Turner Award, Minnie Flaura Turner Memorial Award

9/1999 William C. Ezell Fellowship, American Optometric Foundation.

10/2018 Fellow, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH)/International

10/2019 Brien Holden Humanitarian of the Year, American Academy of Optometry

10/2022 VOSH/International Humanitarian of the Year, Annual Meeting

Service/Outreach(limited to time in current rank)

Local/State Outreach

1/2002-Present Arizona Optometric Association

10/2004-Present Visiting Lecturer, Low Vision Optics, UA College of Education

4/2008-Present Lecturer, Vision as a Chronic Disease Outcome, UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

National/International Outreach

9/1995-Present American Academy of Optometry

9/1995-Present Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

9/2011-Present Visiting Lecturer, Ophthalmological Society, Sonora, Mexico, “Lentes de Contacto y el Keratoconus”

10/2017-2019  President Elect, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH)/International (2019-2021 term)

10/2019-2021 President, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH)/International

10/2021-Present Past-President, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH)/International

Manuscript Review

01/2014-Present Journal of Ophthalmology

06/2005-Present Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

07/2002-Present Optometry and Vision Science

04/2016-Present Journal of the Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Department Committees

6/2004-Present Speaker Coordinator, Science of Eye Disease Seminar Series

9/2018-Present Faculty Recruitment Committee, Chair 

Publications/Creative Activity

* denotes publications from my graduate studies

Chapters in Scholarly Books

1.         *Twelker JD, Bailey IL. Clinical evaluation of pterygium. In: Taylor, HR (ed) Pterygium, pp 57-69. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kugler Publications 2000.

Refereed Journal Articles

1.         Johnson CA, Adams AJ, Twelker JD, Quigg JM.  Age-related changes in the central visual field for short-wavelength-sensitive pathways.  J Opt Soc Am 1988;5:2131-9.

2.         Nelson-Quigg JM, Twelker JD, Johnson CA.  Response properties of normal observers and patients during automated perimetry.  Arch Ophthalmol 1989;107:1612-5. PMID:  2818281. 

3.         Egashira S, Kish L, Twelker JD, Mutti DO, Zadnik K, Adams AJ.  Comparison of cyclopentolate versus tropicamide cycloplegia in children. Optom Vision Sci 1993;70:1019-26. PMID:  8115124.

4.         Mutti DO, Zadnik K, Egashira S, Kish L, Twelker JD, Adams AJ.  The effect of cycloplegia on measurement of the ocular components. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1994;35:515-27. PMID:  8813002.

5.         Twelker JD, Kirschbaum S, Zadnik K, DO Mutti.  Comparison of corneal versus through-the-lid A-scan ultrasound biometry. Optom Vision Sci 1997;74:852-8.PMID:  9383799.

6.         Moore B, Lyons S, Walline J, Harris M, Bartolone A, Kattouf V, Mutti DO, Soni PS, Twelker JD.  A clinical review of hyperopia in young children. JAOA 1999;70:215-24.PMID:  10457697.

7.         *Twelker JD, Bailey IL, Mannis MJ, Satariano WA.  Evaluating pterygium severity:  A survey of corneal specialists.  Cornea 2000;19:292-6.PMID:  10832686.

8.         *Twelker JD, Mutti DO. Retinoscopy in infants using a near noncycloplegic technique, cycloplegia with tropicamide 1%, and cycloplegia with cyclopentolate 1%. Optom Vis Sci 2001;78:215-22.PMID: 11349929.

9.         Zadnik K, Manny RE, Yu JA, Mitchell GL, Cotter SA, Quiralte JC, Shipp MD, Friedman NE, Kleinstein RN, Walker TW, Jones LA, Moeschberger ML, Mutti DO, and the CLEERE Study Group. Ocular component data in schoolchildren as a function of age and gender. Optom Vis Sci 2003;80:226-36.PMID: 12637834.[NOTE: I am a member of the CLEERE Study Group, as PI of the Tucson CLEERE Site]

10.       Kleinstein RN, Jones LA, Hullett S, Kwon S, Lee RJ, Friedman NE, Manny RE, Mutti DO, Yu JA, Zadnik K, CLEERE Study Group.  Refractive error and ethnicity in children. Arch Ophthalmol2003;121:1141-7. PMID: 12912692.[NOTE: I am a member of the CLEERE Study Group, as PI of the Tucson CLEERE Site]

11.       Lyons SA, Jones LA, Walline JJ, Bartolone AG, Carlson NB, Kattouf V, Harris M, Moore B, Mutti DO, Twelker JD. A survey of clinical prescribing philosophies for hyperopia. Optom Vis Sci 2004;81:233-7.PMID: 15097764 .

12. Twelker JD, Harbison SC, Bailey IL. Peripheral light-focusing:  Measurement reliability and correlations with ocular dimensions. Optom Vis Sci 2005;82:94-100.PMID:  15711456.

13.       Mutti DO, Mitchell GL, Hayes JR, Jones LA. Moeschberger ML, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Zadnik K, CLEERE Study Group. Accommodative lag before and after the onset of myopia. InvestOphthalmol Vis Sci 2006;47:837-46.PMID: 16505015.

14. Mutti DO, Hayes JR, Mitchell GL, Jones LA, Moeschberger ML, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Zadnik K and the CLEERE Study Group. Refractive Error, Axial Length, and Relative Peripheral Refractive Error before and after the Onset of Myopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2007;48:2510-9.PMID: 17525178.

15.       Twelker JD, Mitchell GL, Messer DH, Bhakta R, Jones LA. Mutti DO, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Zadnik K, CLEERE Study Group. Children’s ocular components and age, gender, and ethnicity. Optom Vis Sci 2009;86:918-35.PMID: 22227914.

16.       Hargadon DD, Wood J, Twelker JD, Harvey EM, Dobson V. Recognition Acuity, Grating Acuity, Contrast Sensitivity, and Visual Fields in 6-Year-Old Children. Arch Ophthalmol2010;128:70-4.PMID: 20065220.

17.       Jones-Jordan LA, Sinnot LT, Manny RE , Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Mutti DO, Twelker JD, Zadnik K, CLEERE Study Group. Early childhood refractive error and parental history of myopia as predictors of myopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010;51:115-21.PMID:  19737876.

18.       Mutti DO, Sinnott LT, Mitchell GL, Jones-Jordan LA, Moeschberger ML, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Zadnik K, the CLEERE Study Group. Relative peripheral refractive error and the risk of onset and progression of myopia in children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011;52:199-205.PMID: 20739476.

19.       Jones-Jordan LA, Mitchell GL, Cotter SA, Kleinstein R, Manny RE, Mutti DO, Twelker JD, Sims JR, Zadnik K. Visual activity before and after the onset of juvenile myopia.CLEERE Study Group. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011;52:1841-50.PMID: 20926821.

20.       Walline JJ, Lindsley K, Vedula SS, Cotter SA, Mutti DO, Twelker JD. Interventions to slow progression of myopia in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011;12:CD004916. [Review] PMID:  22161388.

21.       Manny RE, Mitchell GL, Cotter SA, Jones-Jordan LA, Kleinstein RN, Mutti DO, Twelker JD, Zadnik K. Intraocular pressure, ethnicity, and refractive error.  CLEERE Study Group. Optom Vis Sci2011;88:1445-53.PMID: 21946783.

22.       Messer DH, Mitchell GL, Twelker JD, Crescioni M, CLEERE Study Group. Spectacle wear in children given spectacles through a school-based program.Optom Vis Sci2012;89(1):19-26. PMID: 22001776.

23.       Manny RE, Sinnott LT, Jones-Jordan LA, Messer D, Twelker JD, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Crescioni M; CLEERE Study Group. Predictors of adequate correction following vision screening failure. Optom Vis Sci 2012;89:892-900.PMID: 22544001.

24.       Jones-Jordan LA, Sinnott L, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Mutti DO, Twelker JD, and Zadnik K. Time outdoors, visual activity, and myopia progression in juvenile-onset myopes. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2012;53(11):7169-75.PMID:  22977132.

25.       Twelker JD, Miller JM, Sherrill D, Harvey EM. Astigmatism and myopia in Tohono O’odham Native American children. Optom Vis Sci 2013;90(11):1267-73. PMID: 24100480.

26.       Harvey EM, Miller JM,Twelker JD, Sherrill DL. Longitudinal change and stability of refractive, keratometric, and internal astigmatism in childhood. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;56(1):190-8.PMID: 25515577.

27.       Jones-Jordan LA, Sinnott LT, Graham ND, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Mutti DO, Twelker JD, Zadnik K; CLEERE Study Group. The contributions of near work and outdoor activity to the correlation between siblings in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) Study.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci2014;55(10):6333-9.PMID: 25205866.

28.       Harvey EM, Miller JM, Apple HP, Parashar P, Twelker JD, Crescioni M, Davis AL,

            Leonard-Green TK, Campus I, Sherrill DL. Accommodation in astigmatic children during visual task performance.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(8):5420-30.PMID: 25103265.

29.       Crescioni M, Messer DH, Warholak TL, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Harvey EM.

Rasch analysis of the Student Refractive Error and Eyeglass Questionnaire.

Optom Vis Sci 2014 Jun;91(6):624-33.PMID: 24811844.

30.       Harvey EM, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Sherrill DL. Longitudinal change and stability of refractive, keratometric, and internal astigmatism in childhood. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;56(1):190-8. Doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-13898.PMID:  25515577.

31.       K Zadnik, Sinnott LT, Jones-Jordan LA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Mutti DO, and the CLEERE Study Group. Prediction of Juvenile-Onset Myopia.JAMA Ophthalmol 2015;133(6):683-9. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.0471.PMID: 25837970.

32.       Harvey EM, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Davis AL  Reading fluency in school-aged children with bilateral astigmatism. Optom Vis Sci 2016 Feb;93(2):118-25. doi: 10.1097/OPX.0000000000000779.PMID:  26808282.

33.       Davis AL, Harvey EM, Twelker JDMiller JM, Leonard-Green T, Campus I.

Convergence insufficiency, accommodative insufficiency, visual symptoms, and astigmatism in Tohono O’odham students.J Ophthalmol 2016;2016:6963976. doi: 10.1155/2016/6963976. Epub 2016 Jul 20.PMID: 27525112.

34.       Mutti DO, Mitchell GL, Jones-Jordan LA, Cotter SA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Zadnik K; CLEERE Study Group.The response AC/A ratio before and after the onset of myopia.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2017 Mar 1;58(3):1594-602. doi: 10.1167/iovs.16-19093.PMID:  28291868.

35.       Harvey EM, Twelker JD, Miller JM, Leonard-Green TK, Mohan KM, Davis AL, Campus I  Visual motor and perceptual task performance in astigmatic students.J Ophthalmol 2017;2017:6460281. doi: 10.1155/2017/6460281. Epub 2017 Feb 15.PMID: 28293434.

36.       Harvey EM, Leonard-Green TK, Mohan KM, Kulp MT, Davis AL, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Campus I, Dennis LK.Interrater and test-retest reliability of the Beery visual-motor integration in schoolchildren.Optom Vis Sci 2017 May;94(5):598-605. doi: 10.1097/OPX.0000000000001068.PMID: 28422801.

37.       Harvey EM, McGrath ER, Miller JM, Davis AL, Twelker JD, Dennis LK.

A preliminary study of astigmatism and early childhood development.

J AAPOS 2018 Aug;22(4):294-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2018.03.004. PMID: 29929004.

38.   Harvey EM, Miller JM, Davis AL, Twelker JD, Dennis LK. Spectacle wear in toddlers:  Frequency of wear and impact of treatment on the child and family.  Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2018 Dec 28;7(6):43. doi: 10.1167/tvst.7.6.43. eCollection 2018 Nov. PMID: 30619663.

39.       Walline JJ, Lindsley K, Vedula SS, Cotter SA, Mutti DO, Ng SM, Twelker JD. Interventions to slow progression of myopia in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020;1:CD004916. [Review] PMID:  31930781.

Conferences/Scholarly Presentations (limited to time in current rank)                         

Invited Seminars

International

1.         Métodos Para Limitar La Progresión de Miopía. [Methods for Limiting Myopia Progression] Invited lecture. National University of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Sinaloa. November 24, 2017.

2.         Methods for Limiting Myopia Progression in Children. Invited lecture. KNUST School of Optometry and Vision Science, Kumasi, Ghana. March 15, 2018.

3.         The Development of Optometry Around the World and its Role in Eye and Vision Care. Invited lecture. KNUST School of Optometry and Vision Science, Kumasi, Ghana. March 16, 2018.

4.         Improving Children’s Vision in Southern Arizona. Invited lecture. Saddlebrooke Rotary Club. Saddlebrooke, Arizona. January 10, 2019.

5.   Métodos Para Limitar La Progresión de Miopía. [Methods for Limiting Myopia Progression] Invited lecture. AMFECCO Annual Meeting – Mexican Association for Faculty, Schools, and Colleges of Optometry. Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. March 9, 2019.

6.   La historia de optometria y como progresar. [The history of optometry and how to proceed] Invited lecture. AMFECCO Annual Meeting – Mexican Association for Faculty, Schools, and Colleges of Optometry. Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. March 10, 2019.

7.   Rapid Fire: Developing Global Optometric Human Resources: Early Lessons from the VOSH Corps Program. Matchinski T, Twelker JD, Manning J, Molter R. American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting/World Council of Optometry. October 26, 2019.

8.  Guía de prescripción de anteojos para bebés y niños pequeños.  PanAmerican Optometry Conference. Lima, Peru. September, 2022.

Peer Reviewed Abstracts (limited to time in current rank)

1.         Twelker JD, Miller JM, Harvey EM.  Native American schoolchildren tend to emmetropize to the spherical equivalent, regardless of level of astigmatism. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13):2744.

2.         Crescioni M, Warholak RL, Twelker JD, Miller JM, Davis AL, Harvey EM. Rasch analysis of the convergence insufficiency symptom survey (CISS) used to assess symptom reduction with spectacle correction among students. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13):4492.

3.         Davis AL, Twelker, JD, Miller JM, Harvey EM. Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability of measurements of the obliquity of palpebral fissures. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13)2739.

4.         Leonard-Green TK, Apple HP, Apple D, Crescioni M, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Davis AL, Campus I, Harvey EM. Meridional amblyopia in astigmatic students documented with computer generated stimuli on commercial displays. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13):2740.

5.         Harvey EM, Miller JM, Apple HP, Parashar P, Apple D, Twelker JD, Crescioni M, Leonard-Green TK, Davis AL. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13):2741.

6.         Miller JM, Harvey EM, Twelker JD, Belin MW, Sherrill D. Posterior corneal curvature conforms to anterior cornea curvature in astigmatic Tohono O’odham Native American schoolchildren. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55(13):2743.

7.         Green TK, Davis A, Crescioni M, Campus I, Mohan K, Twelker JD, Miller JM, Harvey EM. Comparison of best-corrected vs uncorrected performance on the Beery VMI development test of visual perception in astigmatic children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2015;56(7):533.

8.         Davis A, Twelker JD, Miller JM, Harvey EM. The relation between convergence insufficiency and astigmatism. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2015;56(7):532.

9.         Crescioni M, Warholak TL, Harvey EM, Green TK, Campus I, Twelker JD, Miller JM. Validation of self-reported spectacle compliance among school aged children and parents using Rasch analysis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2015;56(7):1365.

10.       Harvey EM, Green TK, Mohan KM, Kulp MT, Davis A, Miller JM, Twelker JD, Campus I.  Interscorer and test-retest reliability of the Beery-Buktenica developmental test of visual-motor integration in school-age children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2016;57(12):1550.

11.       Mutti DO, Sinnott LT, Cotter SA, Jones-Jordan LA, Kleinstein RN, Manny RE, Twelker JD, Zadnik K.  Childhood age, time outdoors, and the risk of juvenile-onset myopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2018;59(9):3392.