Associate Professor

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HPB 524

Schedule a UAB Eye Care Appointment: (205) 975-2020

Teaching/research interests: Community Eye Health, Low Vision, Ophthalmic Optics, Contact Lenses and Special Needs Populations

Office hours: By appointment

Education:

• BA, University of Georgia, Music
• OD, The Ohio State University
• MPH, Walden University
• Residency, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wang-Harris holds a Doctor of Optometry from The Ohio State University and a Master’s in Public Health from Walden University. She completed a Primary Care residency at UAB in 1998.

Following her residency, Wang-Harris began working at a private practice in Huntsville, AL. After less than a year, she responded to the growing HIV positive population in Alabama by starting the first eye clinic specifically for patients in Northern Alabama with the disease. Launching the new clinic ignited her passion for working with underserved populations.

Thereafter, she became a World Council of Optometry (WCO) fellow in Kathmandu Nepal. WCO’s mission is to facilitate the development of optometry around the world and support optometrists in promoting eye health and vision care as a human right through advocacy, education, policy development and humanitarian outreach.

Wang-Harris has lived and worked in Nepal, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, East Timor (Timor Leste), The Gambia and the Federated States of Micronesia. She returned to Birmingham from Kazakhstan to become an optometric educator with a global perspective.