Joel Silbert, O.D.Joel Silbert, O.D.

Professor/Chief of Cornea &
Specialty Contact Lens Service
joel@pco.edu

Education:

B.A. University of Pennsylvania '69
B.S. Pennsylvania College of Optometry '71
O.D. Pennsylvania College of Optometry '73

Role at PCO:

  • Professor of Optometry
  • Chief, Cornea and Specialty Contact Lens Service, The Eye Institute
  • Director, Contact Lens Programs

Professional honors and activities:

  • Diplomate, Cornea & Contact Lens Section, American Academy of Optometry
  • Executive Committee, Cornea & Contact Lens Section, AAO
  • PCO Faculty Member of the Year (1999)
  • Private practice: Woodbury Eye Associates, Woodbury Heights, N.J.
  • Past Chair, Association of Contact Lens Educators (AOCLE)
  • Chairman, Credential Committee, TEI.

Selected representative publications:

  • Silbert,J. Anterior Segment Complications of Contact Lens Wear, 2 nd ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.

Clinical specialty:

Contact lenses, corneal disease.

Research Activities:

Principal investigator Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) research study funded by NIH

October 9, 2007