Marjean Kulp

About

Dr. Marjean Taylor Kulp is a Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University College of Optometry. She received her Bachelor of Science in genetics in 1986 and her Doctor of Optometry in 1991 from Ohio State University. Between 1991 and 1993, she was the recipient of the Ewalt Fellowship and completed a master's degree in physiological optics along with a fellowship in binocular vision and pediatrics at the College of Optometry. Her primary responsibilities included clinical teaching and direct patient care in Pediatrics and Binocular Vision and Primary Care Services. She joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1995 and completed a two-year K-30 clinical-research-career development grant program in 2002. Her teaching has included ocular neurology and binocular vision, and her research interests focus on binocular and children's vision. Dr. Kulp has served as Principal Investigator on multiple NIH-funded trials, including studies on convergence insufficiency, hyperopia in preschoolers, and preschool vision screening, contributing significantly to the field of pediatric optometry and vision research. She has authored over 100 publications, including a book chapter, and has been recognized with awards such as the Ohio Optometric Association’s Jack Keith Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 1996. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and holds the rank of tenured Distinguished Professor.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Ophthalmology
• Psychology
• Political Science
• Optometry
• Internal medicine
• Optics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Family medicine

Selected publications

• The Impact of Hyperopia on Academic Performance Among Children: A Systematic Review

  Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology · 2022 · 52 citations

  PURPOSE: To assess the impact of uncorrected hyperopia and hyperopic spectacle correction on children's academic performance. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: We searched 9 electronic databases from inception to July 26, 2021, for studies assessing associations between hyperopia and academic performance. There were no restrictions on language, publication date, or geographic location. A quality checklist was applied. Random-effects models estimated pooled effect size as a st…

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• Amblyopia: A review of unmet needs, current treatment options, and emerging therapies

  Survey of Ophthalmology · 2023-01-18 · 30 citations

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• Effectiveness of vergence/accommodative therapy for accommodative dysfunction in children with convergence insufficiency

  Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics · 2020 · 22 citations

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• Associations between visual function and magnitude of refractive error for emmetropic to moderately hyperopic 4‐ and 5‐year‐old children in the Vision in Preschoolers ‐ Hyperopia in Preschoolers Study

  Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics · 2021-03-27 · 20 citations

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• Functional magnetic resonance imaging activation for different vergence eye movement subtypes

  Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics · 2022 · 12 citations

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  INTRODUCTION: Maddox suggested that there were four convergence subtypes, each driven by a different stimulus. The purpose of this study was to assess the neural correlates for accommodative convergence, proximal convergence (convergence stimulus provided), disparity convergence and voluntary convergence (no specific convergence stimulus provided) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS: Ten subjects (mean age = 24.4 years) with normal binocular vision participated. The blood…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant U10EY014715

  NIH · $389k · 2008

• NIH Grant U10EY012648

  NIH · $1.9M · 2007

• NIH Grant R01EY021141

  NIH · $2.6M · 2016

Frequent coauthors

• G. Lynn Mitchell

  SUNY College of Optometry

  136 shared

• Gui‐Shuang Ying

  University of Pennsylvania

  129 shared

• Elise Ciner

  128 shared

• Maureen G. Maguire

  Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

  120 shared

• Bruce Moore

  New England College of Optometry

  118 shared

• Graham E. Quinn

  California University of Pennsylvania

  112 shared

• Lynn Cyert

  Northeastern State University

  105 shared

• Mitchell Scheiman

  96 shared

Labs

• Research | College of OptometryPI

Education

• Ph.D., Optometry

  The Ohio State University

  1984

• M.S., Optometry

  The Ohio State University

  1981

• B.S., Optometry

  The Ohio State University

  1979

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
• Jack Keith Young Optometrist of the Year Award (1996)
• President's Citation (1992)
• Class of 1965 Scholarship (1990)
• Varilux Scholarship (1990)

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