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Jason Barton, MD PhD

Jason Barton obtained his MD and completed neurology residency at the University of British Columbia. He was a fellow in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Iowa and with Jim Sharpe at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his PhD. He was assistant and then associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of neuro-ophthalmology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 1996 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been director of clinical neuro-ophthalmology at Vancouver General Hospital. He is currently professor, Canada Research Chair and Marianne Koerner Chair in Brain Diseases in neurology, ophthalmology and visual sciences, and psychology at the University of British Columbia.
He studies cortical processing of vision, in particular high-level object perception, such as face and word recognition, and the use of saccadic eye movements to explore cognitive control. He operates the website www.neuro-ophthalmology.ca, recognized by the American Academy of Neurology in 2011 as one of the best patient- and resident-education websites. He has received the Francis McNaughton Award from the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation, the Young Investigator Award from the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society, and the Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioural Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology.

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