Officials announce optometry dean

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After 12 years on the IU School of Optometry faculty, Joseph Bonanno has now been named the school’s new dean.

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[Scott Caughell]

Interesting choice. Much more of a scientist than an practitioner.

 

[Richard Hom]

A bit of background of the new Dean

Dr. Bonanno has a residency from Pennsyvlania's College of Optometry and served on the staff of Wills Eye. His research interest is mainstream optometry, namely, corneal physiology. I don't know Dr. Bonanno, but I think he'll make a great administrator.

Click here for his interview by Optometric Management earlier this year.

 

[Tom Stickel]

Interesting choice. Much more of a scientist than an practitioner.

Very good scientist, though. I even rode his coattails for this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12408545

I think that for the public schools, the money is in research grants, and I think he's brought a lot of money to the school that way. And he'll continue to enable that as dean. I think IU has been trying to build up their research base for a while.

 

[Scott Caughell]

Very good scientist, though. I even rode his coattails for this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12408545

I think that for the public schools, the money is in research grants, and I think he's brought a lot of money to the school that way. And he'll continue to enable that as dean. I think IU has been trying to build up their research base for a while.

No doubt IU is at the top of OD schools concerning research. Thus the reason all the old clinic space was recently converted to research space. However, that is not why most students attend the school. They need to keep the OD program top notch.

 

[Rebecca Loerzel]

Somewhat surprising to me! It is hard for me to picture him as an actual optometrist since as mentioned he is very involved in research. I see him doing a good job in this role though.

 

[Rebecca Loerzel]

Tom I started a similar research project with him for my senior project. I hated every minute of it (not due to Dr. Bonanno, I just don't like research in general) and ended up switching to something else instead.