Cheryl G. Murphy, OD
My love for vision began long before Optometry school.
It started with Vision Research. As an undergraduate at SUNY Albany, I worked as an intern and research assistant in the lab of Dr. Sue Tieman studying how visual experience helps the brain develop (the effect of monocular deprivation on the development of the visual cortex in the brain). Also prior to attending optometry school, I proudly worked as a research assistant for Dr. Philip Kruger at SUNY College of Optometry harvesting data and contributing to their studies of how different color spectrums can affect the eyes ability to focus (effect of chromatic aberrations on accomodation).
I graduated from SUNY College of Optometry in 2004. Today I practice full scope optometry in Holbrook, New York. I am a proud member of the Ocular Nutrition Society, the American Optometric Association and the New York State Optometric Association.
I love to talk to my patients, answer their health questions and educate them on the science behind their sight. I was featured in the optometric trade magazine, Women In Optometry, in March 2008 and this blog was featured in Review of Optometric Business online in March 2011 and also in June 2011.
I have begun passionately pursuing opportunities in science writing. I have recently been published online in Review of Optometric Business, the guest blog of Scientopia and on Scientific American magazine’s guest blog which was an amazing honor and thrill for me. I was recently honored to win 20/20 magazine‘s essay writing contest and will be their “guest editor-in-chief” in March 2012. I have been published online and in print in 20/20 magazine and in Review of Optometry as of March 2012 and have accepted a position as a regular blogger for Review of Optometric Business which I hope will be the first of many opportunities for writing and blogging yet to come!
Feel free to Contact Me with any questions, comments or inquiries.
