Michael D. Oberdorfer, Ph.D., is the Director of the Strabismus, Amblyopia and Visual Processing, and Low Vision and Blindness Rehabilitation Programs at the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is involved in a number of trans-NIH initiatives and activities in neuroscience and other areas, including the Coordinating Committee of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. Before coming to NIH he was a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation where he was involved in a number of activities including directing the Developmental Neuroscience Program. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He received his B.A. at Rockford College and his Ph.D. in Zoology and Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.