Bonnielin Swenor is an Assistant Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She received an MPH concentrating in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute on Aging in the Translational Gerontology Branch prior to returning to Wilmer in August of 2014. Dr. Swenor holds a joint appointment with the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is an Associate Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health.
Dr. Swenor’s research is at the intersection of aging and ophthalmology, and aims to determine barriers to obtaining ophthalmic care for older adults and to examine how visual impairment affects functioning and quality of life during late life. On the STOP Glaucoma project, she has assisted with implementation of the screening program, determination of the screening algorithm, and provides expertise on data management and analyses.