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Pete Kollbaum


Dr. P Kollbaum Pete Kollbaum, OD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Optometry

OD 1999 (Indiana University)
MS 2007 (IU School of Medicine)
PhD 2007 (Indiana University)

Phone: 812-856-0108

Fax: 812-855-8664

Email: kollbaum@indiana.edu


     Dr. Pete Kollbaum is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Optometry. Following receiving his OD degree from Indiana University in 1999, Dr. Kollbaum worked in a private practice in Iowa for a year prior to returning to IU for his postdoctoral research training. In 2007 Dr. Kollbaum was awarded an MS in Clinical Research (IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis) and a PhD in Vision Science (Indiana University, Bloomington). His dissertation focused on contact lens optics and optical modeling. The aims of his research are to (1) develop novel, adaptable optical corrections of the normal, aging, and diseased human eye, and (2) improve anterior segment ocular diagnostics to better detect disease.


Visiting the IU School of Optometry

     Contact lens optics, fitting, and design; presbyopia; keratoconus; refractive surgery optics; corneal topography; predictive modeling.