Ohio State ADVANCE Faculty Research Lecture Series: 20/20 Vision

Speakers in the Faculty Research Lecture Series will share their research journey as a way to highlight both the challenges and successes that are part of the research process.

Melissa D. Bailey, OD, PhD, is an associate professor at The Ohio State University College of Optometry. She received her optometry degree and PhD in vision science from Ohio State. Dr. Bailey’s research career is devoted to developing new technologies for use in eye care as well as her research on the role of the ciliary muscle in the development of myopia and accommodative function in children.

In 2015, Dr. Bailey was selected as the Early Career Innovator of the Year at Ohio State for her work in developing patented methods for measuring the ciliary muscle.

She is currently teamed up with two local startup companies. Sight4All, Inc., is working with Dr. Bailey to develop new, patent-pending ways to estimate a patient’s glasses prescription and also measure eye alignment with a smart phone. Dr. Bailey is also working with Lentechs, LLC, to bring a novel, bifocal contact lens design to market with her collaborator, Joseph Barr, OD, MS.