Dr. Renée Reeder currently serves the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Optometry or KYCO as the Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Assessment and holds the rank of Professor. Prior to joining the faculty at KYCO, Dr. Reeder taught at the Illinois College of Optometry for over 20 years serving as the Chief of the Cornea Center for Clinical Excellence for 14 years. Dr. Reeder continues to teach in topics related to dry eye, infectious microbiology, anterior segment disease and specialty contact lenses.
Dr. Reeder is a Diplomate in the Cornea and Contact Lens Section of the American Academy of Optometry and holds fellowships in the American Academy of Optometry, the British Contact Lens Association, the Scleral Lens Education Society, the International Association of Contact Lens Educators and the National Academies of Practice. She is currently the Chair-elect of the AOA Contact Lens and Cornea Section, Diplomate Award Chair for the AAOCCLRT, and a board member of IACLE.
In 2018, Dr. Reeder was named the GPLI Practitioner of the Year and received the AOA Contact Lens and Cornea Section’s Achievement Award and in 2020 she was named the IACLE Educator of the Year for the Americas.