Linda K. McLoon, Ph.D. - MED - Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, University of Minnesota

Contact Information

Phone:
Office: (612) 626-0777
Lab: (612) 626-0778
Fax: (612) 626-0781

Email: mcloo001@umn.edu

Address:
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Neuroscience
374 Lions Research Building
2001 6th Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Research

Parmacologic treatments for strabismus and infantile nystagmus
Extraocular muscles and stem cells
Thyroid eye disease
Oxygen deprivation of the optic nerve and retina

Education and Training

Graduate School: University of Illinois at the Medical Center
Post-doc: University of Washington; Medical University of South Carolina

Honors and Awards

American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research Award for the most outstanding research published in the journal in 2002.

Lew Wasserman Mid-Career Merit Award, Research to Prevent Blindnes, 2005-06

Inaugural Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2009-present

Published Works

McLoon LK, Christiansen SP. The Orbit: Extraocular Muscle Anatomy, Elsevier Encyclopedia of the Eye, in press, 2010.

Christiansen SP, McLoon LK. The Orbit: Extraocular Muscles: Functional Assessment in the Clinic, Elsevier Encyclopedia of the Eye, in press, 2010.

Semmer A, McLoon LK, Lee MS. The Orbit: Orbital Vasculature, Elsevier Encyclopedia of the Eye, in press, 2010.

McLoon LK. The Extraocular Muscles: In: Adler's Physiology of the Eye. 11th edition, eds. Kaufman PL, Alm A. in press, 2010.

Alcala-Barraza SR, Lee MS, Hanson LR, McDonald AA, Frey WH, McLoon LK. Intranasal delivery of neurotrophic factors BDNF, CNTF, EPO and NT-4 to the CNS. J Drug Targeting 18:179-190, 2010.

Harrison AR, Lee MS, McLoon LK. Effects of elevated thyroid hormone levels on rabbit extraocular muscles. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 51: 183-191, 2010.

Kallestad KM, McLoon LK. Defining the heterogeneity of skeletal muscle-derived side and main population cells isolated immediately ex vivo. J. Cell. Physiol. 222:676-684, 2010.

Eichhorn K, Harrison AR, Bothun ED, McLoon LK, Lee MS. Ocular treatment of thyroid eye disease. Expert Rev. Ophthalmol. 5:313-325, 2010.

Berg KT, Nelson B, Harrison AR, McLoon LK, Lee MS. Pegylated interferon alpha associated optic neuropathy. J Neuro-ophthalmol. 30: 117-22, 2010.

Christiansen SP, Antunes-Foschini RS, McLoon LK. Effect of recession versus tenotomy surgery without recession in adult rabbit extraocular muscle. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 51: In press, 2010. Epublished ahead of print 10 June 2010, 10.1167/iovs.10-5523.