Education
Educated at the University of California, School of Optometry and Saybrook
Graduate School, his Ph.D. dissertation covered neurological and psychological
aspects of nearsightedness. He also has a diploma in massage therapy from
the New School of Massage in Sebastopol, CA (1979). He was on the optometry
faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of
Houston, College of Optometry (1965-68) and on the clinical faculty of
the University of Rochester, School of Medicine. In the 1980’s he was research
editor of the Brain/Mind Bulletin, a newsletter about brain research, creativity,
education and human health and potential.
Professional Affiliations
Certified in vision therapy by the College of Optometrists in Vision
Development, he is a member of the NeuroOptometric Rehabilitation Association
(brain trauma rehabilitation), the Optometric Extension Program, PAVE (Parents
Advocating for Vision Education), and has been the Dean of the College
of Syntonic Optometry since 1979. Syntonic Optometry is a therapy using
color for improving visual problems related to eye health, learning/reading
disability and brain trauma.
Achievements
Dr. Gottlieb has invented eye exercises and written articles on myopia
(nearsightedness), presbyopia (bifocalsightedness), syntonics (color) therapy,
behavioral optometry, education (curriculum development), and brain theory
(the phase-conjugate, optical brain). He has written two books: Attention
and Memory Training for Children and The Fundamentals of Flow in Learning
Music (with Rebecca Penneys). His exercise to eliminate presbyopia has
been translated into five languages and has also been made into a video
program called “The Read Without Glasses Method.”
Professional Practice
In Rochester, New York he practices vision therapy working with learning
and attention disorders, brain trauma, myopia and presbyopia prevention,
and cross-eye/lazy-eye. He is Staff Optometrist at the Rochester Psychiatric
Center, and Consultant-Trainer for the Rochester City School District.
This is his eleventh summer on the music faculty at the Chautauqua Institute
where he works with pianists to improve their learning, attention and stress
management skills.
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