Laura Frishman received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie (New York) and her MS and PhD in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She did postdoctoral training in Visual Neuroscience at Northwestern University and the University of California in San Francisco where she also was a research faculty member. She joined the Optometry faculty in the College of Optometry in 1990, and she has taught in both the professional and graduate programs. Her research has focused on refining noninvasive electrophysiological approaches for evaluating retinal and anterior visual pathway function in normal subjects and subjects with inherited or acquired diseases that affect visual function.
Laura Frishman is on the editorial board of Translational Vision Science and Technology (TVST), an academic editor for Plos One, and she was Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Visual Neuroscience (2001-2007) and Documenta Ophthalmologica (2006-2013). She has served on federal grant review panels, the NIH/NEI National Advisory Eye Council, and she is fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO), American Academy of Optometry (FAAO) and a board member of the International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV).
