Karla Zadnik is an American

optometrist Optometry is a specialized health care profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities. Optometrists are health care professionals who typically provide comprehensive primary eye care. In the Uni ...

. She is the

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of the

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College of Optometry.

Biography

An internationally recognized leader in optometric research and education, Dr. Karla Zadnik became The

College of Optometry's dean in June 2014. She received her OD and PhD degrees from the

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Berkeley School of Optometry and is a

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of the

American Academy of Optometry The American Academy of Optometry (AAO) is an organization of optometrists based in Orlando, Florida. Its goal is to maintain and enhance excellence in optometric practice, by both promoting research and the dissemination of knowledge. The AAO hold ...

. Professional highlights include: American Academy of Optometry President (2011–12): American Optometric Foundation Glenn A. Fry Award Recipient (1995); National Advisory Eye Council of the

National Eye Institute The National Eye Institute (NEI) was established in 1968. It is located in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. The NEI is one of 27 institutes and centers of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the US Department of Health and ...

(NEI)/National Institutes of Health (2000–04); Study Chair for the NEI-funded Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) Study; and chair of the first-ever NEI-funded multicenter study based in optometry, the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study (1994-2007). At the Ohio State University, she has chaired the Biomedical Sciences

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(IRB) for more than 15 years, and received The Ohio State University's Distinguished Scholar Award in 2010.

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