Iowa Visual Field Reading Center

Serving Academia and Industry Research Advancements

A division of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
within the university of iowa hospitals & clinics

ABOUT US

The UIHC Visual Field Reading Center was established in 2008 to provide clinicians and researchers a means to quickly access and evaluate both raw and processed visual field data and to provide timely feedback to researchers, clinicians, and patients. The Center's main operations are centered around a team of visual field experts led by VFRC Director Michael Wall, M.D. and Co-Director Chris A. Johnson, Ph.D.

The VFRC has retained Bio::Neos, an informatics and software development group, for the past six years, to design, implement and maintain a secure web site and database management system. In this manner, the VFRC is able to provide a paperless means of allowing Clinical Centers to transmit data securely over the internet and to communicate and transmit information to Data Coordinating Centers. In addition, in our fully automated electronic reading center, readers enter their analysis of reliability, visual field change over time and visual field grading according to protocol.

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MISSION STATEMENT

The University of Iowa VFRC is committed to providing the highest quality of service for the acquisition, retrieval, analysis and interpretation of visual field data.

GOALS

• provide high quality, reliable and accurate outcome measures for multicenter clinical trials.
• train, certify and monitor technicians and other clinical personnel for clinical trials.
• archive, store, search and retrieve visual field data.
• develop new analysis and interpretation tools for visual field assessment.
• validate new visual function test procedures.
• assist study Principle Investigators in visual field study design and protocol development.

VFRC Staff

VFRC Ancillary Staff and Collaborators

OUR SERVICES

The Iowa Visual Field Reading Center was established to provide clinicians and researchers a means to evaluate both raw and processed visual field data and to provide timely feedback to researchers, clinicians, and patients.

• Study design consultation
• Training of technicians to properly administer perimetric examinations
• GCP and GDP training for clinical sites
• Knowledge and compliance with ICH and FDA regulations
• Interpretation of visual field examinations, optic disc photos and optical coherence tomography (OCT) examinatons
• Archiving of perimetric, photograhic and OCT data
• Conversion of Humphrey Field Analyzer data into easily usable formats
Statistical analysis of visual field data
• Access to the Iowa Normative Database
• Multisite Clinical Trials Management



CURRENT PROJECTS

• Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS)
• Invex Evolve IIH Study
• Roche CANBERRA Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment Trial
• OpenUp IIH Stenting vs. Shunting Trial
• Perfuse Glaucoma Progression Trial

 

Please contact us for further information regarding these studies.

RELATED LINKS

Use the following resources to get more information about Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences:

University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
International Perimetric Society
American Academy of Ophthalmology
International Glaucoma Association
The Glaucoma Foundation
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Giving to Iowa Ophthalmology
Eye Resources on the Internet
Association of Vision Science Librarians
Ophthalmology Grand Rounds
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology


PREVIOUS PROJECTS

• Regenera NAION Treatment Trial
• Surgical Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial (SIGHT)
• Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research (DRCR, with the JAEB Center)
• Glaucoma progression using Kalman Filters to process visual field and Optical Coherence Tomography data (with the Univ of Michigan and NYU Ophthalmology Departments)
• Using virtual reality head mounted displays to perform visual field testing (with Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India)
• Regeneron Diabetic Retinopathy study • Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT) and Longitudinal Optic Neuritis Study (LONS) – archiving 20 year longitudinal visual field data
• Centervue Compass microperimeter/ scanning laser ophthalmoscope multicenter evaluation of glaucoma
• Lundbeck study of treatment for complex partial seizures
• Allergan study for treatment of glaucomatous visual field progression
• Boeringer Ingelheim investigation of visual fields in Parkinson’s Disease
• Data analysis of glaucomatous visual field results for the Ophthalmology Department at Mayo Clinic
• Development of tablet-based visual field screening tests with M&S Technologies
• Evaluation of tablet-based visual field screening for glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy in Nepal
• Comparison of tablet-based and conventional visual field procedures with Aravind Eye Hospital in Pondicherry, India
• Acquisition and evaluation of Frequency Doubling Technology visual fields in the Beaver Dan Eye Study with the Univ of Wisconsin Ophthalmology Departmen

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2501 Crosspark Road B-148 MTF, Coralville, IA 52241-3210


Email: IowaVFRC@perimetry.com


Phone: 319-467-4539


Fax: 319-356-8724

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