Pete Kollbaum

Pete Kollbaum

Associate Dean for Research, Indiana University School of Optometry
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University (Adjunct)
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