Joseph Barr

• Contact Lenses

Dr. Barr is an Emeritus Professor at The Ohio State University College of Optometry where he is currently involved in working with industry and inventors to bring innovation to eye health. From July 2007 through June 2014 Dr. Barr was with Bausch + Lomb, primarily leading clinical and medical affairs teams and as a member of the Vision Care Leadership Team and most recently as vice president, medical affairs, Pharmaceuticals & Vision Care. Prior to that, he was with Ohio State for 24 years in various capacities including associate dean for clinical services and professional programs. During his tenure with Ohio State, Dr. Barr also spent two decades as editor of the professional journal Contact Lens Spectrum. He was founding editor of the first electronic newsletter for eye care professionals, Contact Lenses Today. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications primarily in cornea and contact lenses.
He is a former Chair of the Section on Cornea and Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies of the American Academy of Optometry and received its Max Schapero Memorial Lecture Award. He was a member of the executive committee and Director of the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus Photography Reading Center sponsored by NEI/HIH.
Dr. Barr also spent three years as manager of clinical and materials research for Dow Corning Ophthalmics from 1980-1983.
He received his doctor of optometry degree and MS in physiological optics (vision science) and residency in cornea and contact lenses at the Ohio State University in 1977 and 1979

Clinical performance of KeraSoft® IC in irregular corneas
Stephanie Su, Lynette Johns, Marjorie J Rah, Robert Ryan, and Joseph Barr. Clin Ophthalmol. 2015; 9: 1953–1964. Published online 2015 Oct 22. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S87176

Recent Posters with the SCOPE Scleral lens Group
SCOPE Study: Current Consensus of Prescribers’ Scleral Lens Wear and Care Recommendations, American Academy of Optometry, 10/8/15
SCOPE Study: Demographics of Scleral Lens Fitters, Global Specialty Lens Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, 1/21/16-1/24/16
SCOPE Study: Indications for Scleral Lens Wear, Global Specialty Lens Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, 1/21/16-1/24/16
SCOPE Study: Scleral Lens Fitting Trends Among Practitioners, Global Specialty Lens Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, 1/21/16-1/24/16


ARVO Posters 2016
The role of scleral lenses in the treatment of corneal irregularity and ocular surface disease
Complications of scleral lens wear
Interferometric measurements of the tear lipid layer thickness following instillation of lipid-containing eye drops and nonlipid-containing eye drops. Fogt, Kowalski, Barr, et al. Accepted for publication in Clinical Ophthalmology October, 2016

ARVO Posters 2017
Qualitative Effects of a Novel Nano-lipid Artificial Tear on Tear Lipid Dynamics
Matthew J. Kowalski Jennifer S. Fogt Peter E King-Smith Joseph T. Barr
Daily variation of lipid layer thickness measurements of human tear film
Jennifer S. Fogt Matthew J. Kowalski Peter E King-Smith Joseph T. Barr

Tear Cytokine Responses to Contact Lens Multi-Purpose Solutions for Contact Lenses. Carolyn Kalsow, William T Reindel, Mohinder Merchea, Kirk Bateman, Joseph Barr, Clinical Ophthalmology 2013:7 1–12 June 5, 2013 Involved in planning, analysis, writing and was last author on this paper

A meta-analysis of studies on cosmetically tinted soft contact lenses. Marjorie J Rah, Jeffery Schafer, Lening Zhang, Osbert Chan, Lipika Roy, and Joseph T Barr Clin Ophthalmol. 2013; 7: 2037–2042. Published online Oct 11, 2013. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S51600PMCID: PMC3798236 Barr Developed strategy for and was last author on this paper