Susan Gromacki, OD, MS, FAAO, FSLS

Susan J. Gromacki, OD, MS, FAAO, FSLS, is an internationally-recognized clinician, lecturer, and author in optometry. In practice for 31 years, she graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University College of Optometry and completed a residency in hospital-based optometry with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

She has presented almost 850 professional lectures and publications and has served as Contributing Editor of Contact Lens Spectrum, Review of Cornea and Contact Lenses, Contemporary Optometry, and CL Today. She serves on the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, composing and overseeing the written examinations that ensure the qualifications of new US optometrists to enter practice.

Dr. Gromacki is one of only 24 doctors worldwide to earn both a Fellowship in the Scleral Lens Education Society and the prestigious Diplomate in Cornea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies of the American Academy of Optometry. She has presented on behalf of the profession of optometry to the US FDA and FTC, and in countries around the world.

Formerly a faculty member of the New England College of Optometry and the University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology, she has received almost 50 professional awards for excellence, including the 2025 Visionary Award from the Contact Lens Institute (CLI), the “Top Doctor of 2024” Award from the National Keratoconus Foundation, the 2023 Contact Lens Institute Culture Award, the 2022 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, the World’s Top Optometrists (2020) and one of the Most Notable Alumni in the 100-year history of The Ohio State University College of Optometry.