Awards

Distinguished Professor - 2023

About Stephen A. Burns

Stephen Burns is a professor and the associate dean for graduate programs in the IU School of Optometry at IU Bloomington.

He is a world-recognized expert in nearly a half-dozen topical areas. His work has spanned the gamut from uncovering the essential understandings of color vision, to optimizing vision correction, and more recently, to optimizing methods for detecting critical signs of disease in advance of clinical diagnoses.

The approaches that Burns has helped to develop have now become the benchmark for many other laboratories around the globe. His inventions and technique developments related to improving retinal imaging by correcting optical aberrations have been widely utilized over the last two decades both in scientific research and in the clinical setting.