Dr. Donald O Mutti OD, PhD

Donald O. Mutti, OD, PhD, FAAO, is the E.F. Wildermuth Foundation Professor in Optometry at The Ohio State University College of Optometry. He received his OD in 1982 and his PhD in 1992 from the School of Optometry at the University of California Berkeley. He was Alumnus of the Year of that school in 2011 and was inducted into its alumni Hall of Fame in 2023. Dr. Mutti's research interests are in the emmetropization of infants and the development of myopia in children. He was a co-investigator on the NEI-funded Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive Error (CLEERE) study. Dr. Mutti was also the Principal Investigator of the NEI-funded Berkeley Infant Biometry (BIBS) Study, an eight-year investigation of ocular component development and emmetropization in infancy. His most recent research project was the Bifocal Lenses In Nearsighted Kids (BLINK) study, an NEI-funded clinical trial evaluating myopia progression using multifocal soft contact lenses. Dr. Mutti received the Borish Award in 1996, the Glenn A. Fry Award in 2006, and is this year's Prentice Medalist in recognition of his contributions to research. Dr. Mutti has taught visual optics at Ohio State for the past 25 years. He received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching from The Ohio State University Alumni Association in 2014 and the Michael G. Harris Family Award for Excellence in Optometric Education in 2019 from the American Academy of Optometry Foundation.