Dr. Karpecki currently serves as director of Cornea and External Disease for the Kentucky Eye Institute in Lexington KY. He is also an associate professor at the Kentucky College of Optometry, teaches at the University of Pikeville, is the chief medical editor for optometry’s most read journal, Review of Optometry, and serves on the board of the charitable organization, Optometry Giving Sight.

Dr. Karpecki has the largest, advanced ocular surface disease clinic in the U.S. He served on the TFOS DEWS II Diagnostic Methodology Sub-Committee and DEWS III Treatment Sub-Committee, as well as co-chaired the previous two (and upcoming) TFOS Symposia- the largest dry eye symposia in the world.

He received his Doctor of Optometry degree from Indiana University and completed a fellowship in medical cornea in Kansas City in affiliation with the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.