Pete Kollbaum

Pete Kollbaum

Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Dean for Research, Indiana University School of Optometry
Director, Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research, Indiana University of Optometry

Email: kollbaum@indiana.edu

Phone: 812-856-0108
Fax: 812-855-7045

Indiana University School of Optometry
800 East Atwater Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405

Research web site: https://blogs.iu.edu/corl/

Education

  • BS, Optometry, Indiana University, 1997
  • OD, Indiana University School of Optometry, 1999
  • MS, Clinical Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2007
  • PhD, Physiological Optics/Vision Science, Indiana University School of Optometry, 2007

Research Interests

  • Advances in vision science and vision care
  • Evaluating and predicting the success of refractive interventions and visual corrections
  • Developing outcome measures to enhance a clinician's ability to treat patients and the research's ability to quantify improvements in care and determine causes for failures
  • Improving ocular diagnostics for the detection, diagnosis, and correction of corneal disease
  • Generating improvements in refractive interventions and visual corrections through controlled optical manipulations