Patrice Hicks

assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

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Dr. Patrice Hicks is an ophthalmic epidemiologist whose research focuses on the social determinants of health and social risk factors related to eye care and vision health outcomes. Specifically, her work highlights the implications of the neighborhood and built environment on both acute and chronic eye disease. She received her PhD in Population Health Sciences with an emphasis in Clinical and Translational Epidemiology from the University of Utah, where she was funded by an NIH T32 Institutional Training grant. Dr. Hicks completed her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan, and she was also a University of Michigan K12 Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) Fellow.