Muriel Schornack OD

Dr. Muriel Schornack received her Bachelor of Arts degree in organ performance from Jamestown College in 1984, followed by a Master of Music degree in piano pedagogy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987. She worked as an arts administrator and piano instructor for several years before beginning to pursue her optometry degree in 1994. She attended the Illinois College of Optometry and received the valedictory award upon her graduation in 1998. She then completed a residency in primary eye care at the Illinois Eye Institute.

Dr. Schornack joined the ophthalmology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota upon completing her residency in 1998. She now serves as a consultant in that department and holds the rank of Assistant Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She was instrumental in the development of Mayo community eye care clinic and served as the medical director of that clinic from its inception in 2004 until 2012. She was also responsible for the development of Mayo Clinic’s scleral lens program in 2006. Since the inception of Mayo’s scleral lens clinic, Dr. Schornack has lectured, presented, and published regularly on the topic of scleral lenses.

Dr. Schornack is a founding member of the Scleral Lens Education Society, and currently serves on the advisory board for the organization. She was also a founding member of the SCOPE (Scleral Lenses in Current Ophthalmic Practice Evaluation) research team and remains active in the leadership.