Posters & Abstracts Presented at ARVO

Optimizing Contact Lens Add Zone Placement and Power when Used for Myopia Control

Liza Kashif, Lauryn McDougal, Maher Khushashi, Pablo De Gracia, OD, PhD

Optical quality and visual performance obtained with myopia controlling multifocal contact lenses in multi-vergence scenes

Lauryn McDougal, Maher Khushashi, Liza Kashif, Pablo De Gracia, OD, PhD

The Impact of Pupil Size on Myopia Control with Multifocal Contact Lenses: A Comparative Study of MYLO and MiSight

Pablo De Gracia, Keyur Savla, Andrew David Pucker

Microsaccade Characteristics through-focus when using Multifocal Contact Lenses in Myopes and Emmetropes as a function of the target frequency content

Maher Khushashi, Liza Kashif, Lauryn McDougal, Sulman Hans, Pablo De Gracia

Selected Publications

2025. "Next-Generation Spectacle Lenses for Myopia Control: Optical Designs, Mechanisms, and Clincal Efficacy"

Neeraj Singh and Pablo De Gracia,
Journal of Clinical Medicine.

2025. "Pharmacological Modulation of Pupil Size in Presbyopia: Optical Modeling and Clinical Implications"

Pablo De Gracia and Andrew D. Pucker,
Journal of Clinical Medicine.

2025. "Differences between emmetropic and myopic eyes: implications for myopia development, its progression, and ocular health"

Pablo De Gracia, Fuensanta A Vera-Diaz, Alexandra Benavente-Pérez, Pablo Pérez-Merino,
Frontier Medicine.

2023. “Fourier Tools for the Evaluation of Commercial Multifocal Designs”

Pablo De Gracia,
Scientific Reports.

2023. "A Bibliometric Analysis of Ophthalmology, Medicine, and Surgery Journals: Comparing Citation Metrics and International Collaboration"

Todd D. Whitescarver, Casey L. Anthony, Annette K. Hoskin, James K Aden, Scott E. Gardner, Pablo De Gracia, Rupesh Agrawal, Fasika Woreta, Grant A. Justin,
The Open Ophthalmology Journal.

2021. “Changes in optical quality induced by tilt and decentration of a trifocal and a novel extended depth of focus IOLs in eyes with corneal myopic ablation”

Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Irene Martinez-Alberquilla, Laureano A. Rementeria-Capelo, Pablo De Gracia, Amalia Lorente-Velazquez,
Journal of Refractive Surgery.

2020. “Optical performance of a trifocal and a novel extended depth of focus (EDoF) intraocular lenses combined with different corneal profiles”

Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Amalia Lorente-Velazquez, Jose Luis Hernandez-Verdejo, Pablo De Gracia, David Madrid-Costa,
Journal of Refractive Surgery.

2020. “Optical Tolerance to Rotation of Trifocal Toric IOLs as a function of the cylinder power”

Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Amalia Lorente-Velazquez, Pablo De Gracia, David Madrid-Costa,
European Journal of Ophthalmology.

2020. “Evaluation of Two Strategies for Alleviating the Impact on the Circadian Cycle of Viewing Smartphone Screens at Near Distances”

Emiliano Teran, Cristo-Manuel Yee-Rendon, Jesus Ortega-Salazar, Pablo De Gracia, Efrain Garcia-Romo, Russell L. Woods,
Optometry and Vision Science.

2019. “Dry Eye Disease and Refractive Corrections”

David Madrid-Costa, James S. Wolffsohn, Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, and Pablo De Gracia,
Journal of Ophthalmology

2019. “Comparing Habitual and i. Scription Refractions”

Nicole M. Putnam, Balamurali Vasudevan, Andre Juarez, Cam Tu Le, Kristine Sam, Pablo De Gracia, and Allissun Hoppert,
BMC Ophthalmology.

2017. “Optimal Orientation for Angularly Segmented Multifocal Corrections”

Pablo De Gracia and Andreas Hartwig,
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.

2016. “Optical Properties of Monovision Corrections Using Multifocal Designs for Near Vision"

Pablo De Gracia,
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Cover image of the Issue.

2016. “Automatic counting of microglial cell activation and its applications”

Beatriz Isabel Gallego and Pablo De Gracia,
Invited Review. Neural Regeneration Research.

2016. “Perceived image quality with simulated segmented bifocal corrections”

Carlos Dorronsoro, Aiswaryah Radhakrishnan, Pablo De Gracia, Lucie Sawides, Susana Marcos,
Biomedical Optics Express.

2015. "Automatic method for counting glial cells in healthy and glaucomatous mice retinas”

Pablo De Gracia, Beatriz I. Gallego, Blanca Rojas, Ana I. Ramirez, Rosa de Hoz, Juan J. Salazar, Alberto Trivino, Jose M. Ramirez, PLoS ONE.

2013. “Multiple zone multifocal phase designs”

Pablo DeGracia, Carlos Dorronsoro and Susana Marcos,
Optics Letters.

2013. “Astigmatism Impact on Visual Performance: Meridional and Adaptational Effects”

Maria Vinas, Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Lucie Sawides, Gildas Marin, Martha Hernández and Susana Marcos,
Optometry and Vision Science.

2013. “Experimental simulation of simultaneous vision”

Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Lucie Sawides, Susana Marcos,
Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science (IOVS).

2012. "Perceptual adaptation to the correction of natural astigmatism”

Maria Vinas, Lucie Sawides, Pablo De Gracia, Susana Marcos,
PLoS ONE.

2012. “Dependence of subjective image focus on the magnitude and orientation of High Order Aberrations”

Lucie Sawides, Carlos Dorronsoro, Pablo De Gracia, Maria Vinas, Michael Webster, Susana Marcos,
Journal of Vision.

2011. “Vision is adapted to the natural level of blur present in the retinal image”

Lucie Sawides, Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Michael Webster, Susana Marcos,
PLoS ONE.

2011. “Contrast sensitivity benefit of adaptive optics correction of ocular aberrations”

Pablo De Gracia, Ankit Mathur, Susana Marcos, David Atchison, Journal of Vision.

2011. “Adapting to blur produced by ocular high order aberrations”

Lucie Sawides, Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Michael Webster, Susana Marcos, Journal of Vision.

2011. “Visual acuity under combined astigmatism and coma: Optical and neural adaptation effects”

Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Enrique Gambra, Gildas Marin, Martha Hernández, Susana Marcos,
Journal of Vision.

2010. “Combining coma with astigmatism can improve retinal image over astigmatism alone”

Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Enrique Gambra, Gildas Marin, Martha Hernández, Susana Marcos,
Vision Research.

2009. “Experimental test of simulated retinal images using adaptive optics”

Pablo De Gracia, Carlos Dorronsoro, Lucie Sawides, Enrique Gambra and Susana Marcos.
Frontiers in Optics 2009, San Jose, California, USA, OSA Technical Digest, CD, Optical Society of America, paper JWB4.