Lab Members

Staff and Contributors

The Glaucoma Advanced Imaging Laboratory is staffed by postdoctoral researchers, students and volunteers. Laboratory researchers originate from different parts of the world and represent both vision-specific and general cell biological disciplines. Their diverse backgrounds bring a broad scope of knowledge, perspectives, and methods to the laboratory’s research activities.


	Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi, MD MSCR Laboratory Director
Joseph Caprioli, MD Researcher		Navid Amini, PhD Researcher

Esteban Morales, MS Postdoctoral Researcher		Sharon Henry, BS Research Coordinator

Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi, MD, MS

Dr. Nouri-Mahdavi is a glaucoma specialist and a clinician-scientist. He is currently Associate Professor in Residence and the Director of The Glaucoma Imaging Research Laboratory at UCLA's Stein Eye Institute. Dr. Nouri-Mahdavi’s research has been funded by an NIH award (since 2012), multiple grants from the American Glaucoma Society, and a grant from the Oppenheimer Family Foundation. He has been involved in clinical research since 1995 and obtained a Masters of Science degree in Clinical Research in 2006 from UCLA’s Department of Biomathematics. His focus of research interest is early detection of glaucoma deterioration with OCT imaging, optimizing detection of glaucoma progression in patients with advanced glaucoma, structure and function in glaucoma and outcome studies of glaucoma treatment. His clinical interests include medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataract surgery.

Joseph Caprioli, MD

Dr. Caprioli is the May Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief of Glaucoma Division at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute and supervises the research enterprise in the Division. His main research interests over the last three decades have been the study of basic mechanisms of ganglion cell damage in glaucoma and investigations of the structure and function in glaucoma for the detection of the disease and its progression.

Navid Amini, PhD

Dr. Amini is a research faculty member at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute. His research interests are biomedical imaging and mobile health. He develops signal processing and machine learning techniques in ophthalmic research and utilizes such techniques in quantitative assessment of major ocular diseases. He has served on the Technical Program Committee for several conferences in the field of medical informatics. He is a named inventor on three US patents, two of which have been licensed and moving towards commercialization. He is the recipient of the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research Honorable Mention, Alcon Young Investigator Award, and the Vodafone Wireless Innovation award. Dr. Amini has received unrestricted gifts from influential companies such as Google and Symantec for pursuing end-to-end collaborative research.

Esteban Morales, MS

Esteban Morales is a computer and software expert with extensive experience in the R platform for addressing important clinical research questions in perimetry and imaging

Sharon Henry, BS

Ms. Henry has a BS in Psychology with emphasis in Biological Sciences. She has extensive experience in research in vision science since 2008. She has served as the Clinical Research Coordinator for GAIL at Stein since 2013. Sharon is responsible for ongoing support of many research endeavors at the Glaucoma Division.

Other Collaborators:
Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD
Professor in Residence, Stein Eye Institute
Director of Center for Epidemiology at Stein Eye Institute
Vice Chair of Department of Ophthalmology Stein Eye Institute
Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Professor of Ophthalmology Stein Eye Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Professor of Epidemiology
Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA

Simon Law, MD, PharD
Health Sciences Professor, Stein Eye Institute

JoAnn Giaconi, MD
Health Sciences Associate Professor, Stein Eye Institute

International Fellows:

Nima Fatehi, MD

Statisticians:
Abdolmonem Afifi, PhD
Dean Emeritus, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,
Professor of Biostatistics & Biomathematics

Jeff Gornbein, PhD
Senior Statistician and Deputy Director Statistical /
Biomathematics Consulting Clinic (SBCC)
David Geffen School of Medicine