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John Elliott Conto OD

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Associate Professor

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Program: Administration


I am willing to collaborate on research projects.
I am willing to be a peer mentor.
I am willing to mentor a junior faculty member.

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Research Areas of Interest

  • Anterior Eye Segment
  • Conjunctiva
  • Corneal Diseases
  • Dry Eye Syndromes

    • Research Experience

  • Graft vs Host Disease
  • Ocular pain
  • Meibomianitis
  • Neurotrophic keratitis

    • Clinical Expertise

  • Dry Eye Syndromes

    • Leadership Positions

  • Chief, Vision Services

    • Publications (30)

  • Pre-Transplant screening for MMP-9 in allogenic HSCT candidates (Morrow M, Piryani N, Jerkins J, Conto J) Journal of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy 04/30/2025    
  • Case report of corneal ulceration associated with dupilumab (Conto JE, Hogan JN, Lim SJ) Clinical Insights in Eyecare 04/30/2025    
  • Persistent corneal defect in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (Conto J, Bachman Groth J) Journal of Medical Optometry 04/30/2025    
  • Assessment of medical student's understanding of the profession of optometry: implications for the future (Chan D, Steinmetz R, Fields c, Conto J, Steele G) Optometry and Visual Science 04/30/2025    
  • Mixed connective disease with bilateral mid-peripheral corneal thinning (Hogan CL, Conto J) Optometry and Visual Science 04/30/2025    
  • Guillan-Barre Syndrome (Conto JE, McMann J) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease, 2nd Ed 04/30/2025    
  • Spasmus Nutans (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease, 2nd Ed 04/30/2025    
  • Psoriatic Arthritis (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease, 2nd Ed 04/30/2025    
  • LipiFlow for the treatment of dry eye disease: A Cochrane systematic review summary. (Yim TW, Pucker AD, Rueff E, Ngo W, Tichenor AA, Conto JE) Cont Lens Anterior Eye 2025 Apr;48(2):102335 PMID: 39562261 PMCID: PMC11911098 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85209570806 11/20/2024    
  • LipiFlow for the treatment of dry eye disease. (Pucker AD, Yim TW, Rueff E, Ngo W, Tichenor AA, Conto JE) Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2024 Feb 05;2(2):CD015448 PMID: 38314898 PMCID: PMC10840070 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184458660 02/05/2024       2 Citations
  • Use of InflammaDry for MMP-9 Detection in Ocular Graft versus Host Disease (Morrow M Johnson R Jerkins J Conto J) Journal of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy DOI: 10.46765/2675-374X.2023v4n3p204 12/23/2023    
  • LipiFlow for the treatment of dry eye disease (Pucker AD, Rueff E, Ngo W, Tichenor AA, Conto JE) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 12/15/2022    
  • Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia and Ocular Surface Complications. JMedOpt 1(2) (Conto, JE Bachman Groth J) Journal of Medical Optometry 04/30/2022    
  • Significance of Timely Referral for oGVHD and NIH Stage at Presentation (John Conto, OD Ryan Johnson, MD Joseph Bogaard, MD, PhD) American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting Supplement 2020 10/07/2020    
  • Chronic Ocular Graft Versus Host Disease: An update and review (Jane Bachman Groth, John Conto, Marcello Pasquini) Journal of Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease J Dry Eye Ocul Sur Dis 3(1):e6–e26; March 19, 2020 03/19/2020    
  • Lifitegrast ophthalmic solution for treatment of ocular chronic graft-versus-host disease. (Chhabra S, Jerkins JH, Conto JE, Zellner K, Shah NN, Hari PN, Hamadani M) Leuk Lymphoma 2020 Apr;61(4):869-874 PMID: 31762357 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075533403 11/26/2019       20 Citations
  • A Review of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (John E. Conto) Journal of Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease J Dry Eye Ocul Sur Dis 2(1):e4–e11; June 10, 2019 06/10/2019    
  • Cilioretinal artery occlusion with central retinal vein occlusion. (Messner LV, Newman TL, Bartlett M, Conto JE) Optom Vis Sci 1999 Nov;76(11):741-6 PMID: 10566858 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-0033230417 11/24/1999       4 Citations
  • Pupillary Disorders (Trachimowicz R, Conto JE) Ocular Disease 04/30/1996    
  • Co-Management of the Cataract Patient (Conto JE) Ocular Disease 04/30/1996    
  • Postoperative complications of subconjunctival THC-YAG (Holmium) laser sclerostomy. (Bachman JA, Conto JE) J Am Optom Assoc 1994 May;65(5):311-20 PMID: 8071501 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-0028434619 05/01/1994       1 Citation
  • Ocular manifestations of cardiovascular disease (Conto JE) Ocular Manifestations in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Guillan-Barre Syndrome (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Arnold-Chiari Malformations (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Spamus Nutans (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Scleroderma (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Psoriatic Arthritis (Conto JE) Primary Eyecare in Systemic Disease 04/30/1994    
  • Soft tissue sarcoma metastatic to the orbit (Conto JE) Clinical Eye and Vision Care 1991;3(3):126-134 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-44949282693 12/01/1991    
  • Giant papillary conjunctivitis (Conto JE, Chaglasian E, Schmidt KR) Eye Update 04/30/1991    
  • Coats' disease (Messner LV, Messner SS, Conto JE) Clinical Eye and Vision Care 1989;1(3):157-162 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-45249128974 12/01/1989    
    • Last update: 06/29/2025