Karla Zadnik

Karla Zadnik is the Interim Dean of the College of Public Health and Glenn A. Fry Professor of Optometry and Physiological Optics at The Ohio State University. She served as Dean of the College of Optometry from 2014 to 2023. She received the American Optometric Foundation’s Glenn A. Fry Award in 1995. She served on the National Advisory Eye Council of the National Eye Institute (NEI)/National Institutes of Health from 2000 to 2004. Dr. Zadnik was the Study Chairman for the NEI-funded Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) Study and chaired the first-ever NEI-funded multicenter study based in optometry, the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study from 1994 through 2007.