Elli J. Kollbaum, OD Clinical Assistant Professor of Optometry OD 1997 (Indiana University)

Elli J. Kollbaum received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Notre Dame in 1993 prior to her Doctor of Optometry degree from Indiana University in 1997. During the following year, she completed residency training in hospital-based optometry and low vision rehabilitation with the Chicago Veterans Administration Healthcare System. From 1998-2000, she practiced primary care optometry and low vision in a large multi-disciplinary clinic in Iowa. She joined the IU faculty as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2000 and became the Chief of Primary Care at the Atwater Eye Care Center in 2001. Her primary teaching responsibilities include clinical instruction and patient care in the primary care clinic and the low vision rehabilitation clinic. Her classroom teaching includes courses in history-taking, low vision rehabilitation, and geriatrics.

In the School of Optometry, Dr. Kollbaum is currently a member of the Admissions Committee, the Honors and Awards Committee, and the Clinics Advisory Committee. She has presented summer continuing education lectures the past two years at the School of Optometry.

Dr. Kollbaum is a member of the American Optometric Association and the AOA Low Vision Section. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Optometry and has presented several times at the AAO meetings. Dr. Kollbaum serves as a clinical skills examiner for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry. She enjoys volunteering with IU-VOSH during its annual mission trips to Guanajuato, Mexico.

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