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Kentucky College of Optometry 147 Sycamore Street Pikeville, Kentucky 41501 (606) 218-5251 kycoadmissions@upike.edu
Dean, Kentucky College of OptometryProfessor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Telephone: (606) 218-5510 Email: MBacigalupi@upike.edu
Associate Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401FTelephone: (606) 218-5521Email: GeorgeAsimellis@upike.edu
Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Telephone: (606) 218-5523Email: FelixBarker@upike.edu
Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Telephone: (606) 218-5523Email: PierretteDayhawBarker@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401KTelephone: (606) 218-5258Email: AmandaBlankenship@upike.edu
Associate Professor of PathologyOffice: Coal Building 817Telephone: (606) 218-5431Email: CathrynCaudill@upike.edu
Assistant Dean of Clinical AffairsAssociate Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 501ETelephone: (606) 218-5515Email: CliffCaudill@upike.edu
Senior Instructor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Telephone: (606) 218-5523Email: JamesCecil@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401JTelephone: (606) 218-4461Email: JustinChelete@upike.edu
Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs for KYCOMOffice: Coal Building 611Telephone: (606) 218-5428Email: JoshuaCrum@upike.edu
Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 501FTelephone: (606) 218-5513Email: DonaldEgan@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 501CTelephone: (606) 218-5532Email: RachelFitzgerald@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Office: Coal Building 816Telephone: (606) 218-5422E-mail: MuhammadGhayur@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401ATelephone: (606) 218-5533Email: AlexanderHynes@upike.edu
Senior Clinical InstructorOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Email: KeithIson@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401JTelephone: (606) 218-4483Email: ChantalJacques@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building Telephone: (606) 218-5514Email: RyanKern@upike.edu
Associate Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 401GTelephone: (606) 218-5514Email: EileneKinzer@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 401Telephone: (606) 218-5640Email: BenKonig@upike.edu
Department Chair – Didactic EducationAssociate Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 401CTelephone: (606) 218-5524Email: JessonMartin@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building Telephone: (606) 218-5524Email: SamanthaMyers@upike.edu
Head of Optometric Telemedicine and Emerging TechnologyAssistant Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 504Telephone: (606) 218-5523Email: IanMcWherter@upike.edu
Assistant Dean for Student & Professional DevelopmentAssociate Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 501HTelephone: (606) 218-5525Email: JosephineIbironke@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of PharmacologyOffice: Coal Building M11Telephone: (606) 218-5423Email: KartickPramanik@upike.edu
Professor of Optometry
Office: Health Professions Education Building 501JTelephone: (606) 218-5202Email: ReneeReeder@upike.edu
Faculty Chair,Professor of Optometry and Osteopathic Medicine
Office: Health Professions Education Building 401ETelephone: (606) 218-5519Email: JamesRogala@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education Building 504Email: PatrickScott@upike.edu
Gross Anatomy Laboratory InstructorOffice: Coal Building 802Telephone: (606) 218-5401Email: JuliaSmith@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of OptometryOffice: Health Professions Education, 401ATelephone: (606) 218-4473Email: JessicaWalter@upike.edu
President, University of PikevilleProfessor of ImmunologyOffice: President’s OfficeTelephone: (606) 218-5261Email: President@upike.edu
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Health Professions Education Building 404Email: KayWebb@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of BiochemistryOffice: Coal Building 718Telephone: (606) 218-5417Email: MichaelYounger@upike.edu
Assistant Professor of AnatomyAssistant Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience
Office: Coal Building 820Telephone: (606) 218-5412Email: DanaZiegler@upike.edu