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Dr. David Troilo is the 4th President of the SUNY College of Optometry, having been selected by the State University of New York Board of Trustees in 2024 to serve the state’s only college of optometry.
Prior to this role, Dr. Troilo joined SUNY College of Optometry as Professor, Vice President, and Dean for Academic Affairs in July 2008. As the chief academic officer, he oversaw the professional degree program in optometry (OD) and the graduate degree programs (PhD and MS) in vision science. His responsibilities also included research development, faculty development, residency training programs, library services, and continuing professional education.
Dr. Troilo has made advancing research at the College a priority, developing collaborative initiatives in basic, translational, and clinical eye and vision research. In collaboration with the University Eye Center, which sees approximately 60,000 patient encounters annually, and clinical faculty researchers, he co-founded the College’s Clinical Vision Research Center (CVRC) in 2013. Since then, the CVRC has conducted more than 100 clinical studies and trials that enhance patient care.
Dr. Troilo is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). His principal research interest is the visual control of eye growth and the mechanisms of myopia development and control. His research has been funded by the NIH and industry sponsors for over 30 years.
Dr. Troilo is a graduate of SUNY State College at Oswego and earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the City University of New York at the City College of New York. He held post-doctoral research fellowships at the University Laboratories of Physiology at the University of Oxford and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the Department of Psychology at Cornell University.
For a list of selected peer-reviewed publications see PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Troilo+D
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