Chicago College of Optometry Awarded the 2022 Beta Sigma Kappa Research Fellowship
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Chicago College of Optometry Awarded the 2022 Beta Sigma Kappa Research Fellowship
Adrienne C. Quan, OD, FAAO, Assistant Professor at Chicago College of Optometry, Midwestern University was awarded the Beta Sigma Kappa (BSK) Research Fellowship by the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) and was honored at Academy 2022 in San Diego, CA.
This fellowship supports new optometric and vision science faculty research and optometric resident research. First awarded in 2012, the fellowship is designed to benefit individuals who are early in their career and whose academic curiosity has led them to seek answers to a vast variety of professionally based questions covering a wide area of vision science, clinical practice, or eye related public health.
Dr. Quan is currently completing her PhD under the supervision of Arijit Chakraborty, PhD as a member of the Translational Vision Science Lab at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, IL. Her research interests include brain injury vision rehabilitation, low vision and sensory substitution technologies, and electrophysiology. She will be completing her dissertation research investigating the role of noninvasive brain stimulation in vision rehabilitation. This award will help fund her research project, “The Effects of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Visual Cortex Excitability: A Pilot Study.”
Dr. Quan would like to express her gratitude to BSK and AAOF for their generosity. She would also like to thank Dr. Chakraborty, Dean Melissa Suckow, OD, FAAO, and her colleagues at CCO for their endless support of her research endeavors.
