Under the leadership of Co-Directors Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS and Gadi Wollstein, MD, the Advanced Center for Ophthalmic Research in Neuroimaging (ACORN), is a team of ophthalmologists, engineers, software specialists, statisticians, and trainees that focus primarily on glaucoma research.
 
Glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the retina and optic nerve of the eye. Although various interventions exist, there is currently no known cure for glaucoma, therefore early disease detection is of the utmost importance for vision conservation.