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The organization of the CLEK Study is outlined below (Figure 1-1) and discussed
in greater detail in Chapter 16 of this Operations Manual.
The CLEK Study Chairman is:
• Karla Zadnik, OD PhD, The Ohio State University College of Optometry.
The CLEK Executive Committee is comprised of:
• Joseph T. Barr, OD MS, The Ohio State University, College of Optometry;
• Timothy B. Edrington, OD MS, Southern California College of Optometry;
• Donald F. Everett, MA, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health;
• Mae O. Gordon, PhD, Washington University, Department of Ophthalmology and
Visual Sciences and the Division of Biostatistics;
• Timothy T. McMahon, University of Illinois at Chicago,Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; and
• Karla Zadnik, OD PhD, The Ohio State University College of Optometry.
The Coordinating Center is at Washington University, Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Division of Biostatistics, under the
direction of Dr. Mae Gordon.
The CLEK Photography Reading Center to evaluate photographs of contact
lenses and the presence of corneal scarring is at The Ohio State University, College of
Optometry, under the direction of Dr. Joseph T. Barr.
The CLEK Topography Reading Center to evaluate videokeratography images
and evaluate corneal topographic data is at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, under the direction of Dr. Timothy
T. McMahon.
The CLEK Participating Clinics are:
• University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Optometry, under the direction of
William J. Benjamin, OD, PhD
• University of California at Berkeley, School of Optometry, under the direction of
Nina E. Friedman, OD MS in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA,
and Dennis C. Burger, OD
• University Hospitals of Cleveland, University Ophthalmologists, Inc., Cleveland,
OH, under the direction of Loretta Szczotka, OD
• Gundersen Lutheran, LaCrosse, WI, under the direction of John Sterling, OD
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL, under
the direction of Timothy T. McMahon, OD
• Indiana University School of Optometry, under the direction of Gerald E. Lowther,
OD PhD in collaboration with the Indianapolis Eye Care Center.