Raymond A. Applegate, OD, Ph.D.
Curriculum vitae of Raymond A. Applegate, OD, Ph.D.
Raymond A. Applegate is the second of four children born to K. Edwin Applegate and Elizabeth Dilts Applegate. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1949 and attended Indiana University from Kindergarten through his Bachelor of Arts (1971), Doctor of Optometry (1975) and his Master of Science in Physiological Optics (1976). He practiced optometry in Galesburg, Illinois before continuing his graduate education in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Ph.D. (1983). Dr. Applegate joined the University of Texas Health Science Center faculty in 1988 from the School of Optometry University of Missouri - St. Louis where he served as an assistant professor of optometry. He rose through the faculty ranks quickly to become a tenured professor of ophthalmology in 1993. In January 2002 Dr. Applegate joined the College of Optometry at the University of Houston as Professor, Borish Chair in Optometry, and Director of the Visual Optics Institute. He has served as a feature editor of Journal of the Optical Society of America -A, Applied Optics, and Optometry and Vision Science on several occasions. Dr. Applegate has served on the editorial board of the journal of Optometry and Visual Science and currently serves on editorial board of the Journal of Refractive Surgery. He is a cofounder of the International Congress on Wavefront Sensing and Aberration-Free Refraction Correction, is widely published in leading journals, is a sought after consultant, and international lecturer whose research interests center on the optics of the eye and early ocular disease detection and prevention.
E-mail: rapplegate@uh.edu
