The Optometric Education Leadership Institute will be held in Dallas, TX in January 2024. 

Generously Sponsored by VSP Vision

ASCO’s Board of Directors, invited guests and staff gathered in New Orleans for its Fall Board of Directors Meeting.

The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) announces Eye Opener Sessions, a complement to ASCO’s public awareness campaign, Optometry Gives Me Life.

The optometric community took part in a Thunderclap in late July, and there is still time to help #BringBackEyeDoctorBarbie!

The remaining three recordings of ASCO’s Eye on Diversity Speaker Series, a component of a larger diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiative generously sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Vision, are still available; but only through December 31, 2023.

With the Fall approaching, it’s a great time to revisit ASCO’s virtual cultural competency training workshop and toolkit. The workshop and toolkit are part of its Eye on Diversity Initiative, which is generously sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Vision.

ASCO announces a theme edition of the journal Optometric Education (https://journal.opted.org) that will be dedicated to global optometric education. ASCO welcomes manuscript submissions that highlight research, curricula, pedagogy, public health initiatives, and other projects that align with the theme edition’s mission of sharing ongoing efforts to advance the profession of optometry worldwide.

The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry offers a Career Center resource, hosted by Boxwood.

Optometry Students Visit Alcon

CooperVision Shines Spotlight on Childhood Myopia at Academy 2023

Johnson & Johnson Vision Welcomes Dr. Kate McClure

Five Benefits of Digital Refraction

Let NIDEK Help Your Practice with Proven Topography Performance

Launch of the OCULUS Easyfield VR™: Virtual Reality Vision Screening & Visual Field Analysis

The Technology Suite That Powers Our Thriving 4-Location, 9-OD Practice

Maximizing the advantages of having one trusted partner for all your instrumentation needs

VSP Vision and AAOF Announce the 2023 Practice Excellence Scholarship Recipients

Melissa Trego, OD, PhD, immediate past president of ASCO, was recently featured on an episode of the Eye Give a Damn! Podcast, where she discussed her role as a leader in ASCO and some of the challenges the world of academic optometry currently faces.

Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry (NSUCO) is proud to announce that Dr. Sherrol Reynolds, OD, has been recognized as the Optometry Professor of the Year and is nominated for the President’s Distinguished Professor Award of Excellence for 2023.

Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry (NSUCO) announces that they have received the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. This is the second consecutive year NSUCO has been named as a Health Professions HEED Award recipient.

Every fall, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University faculty, residents, students and staff descend upon a different city for a robust lineup of lectures, events, poster presentations, workshops and much more at the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) conference. This year, New Orleans, or ‘The Big Easy,’ known for its specialty cuisines, jazz music and historic architecture, was the host city.

Berkeley Optometry's inaugural flu vaccination clinic was a huge success!

 

On October 23rd, 112 influenza vaccines were administered to staff, faculty, and students by our third-year optometry students, which exceeded our goal of delivering 100 vaccines. A big thank you to everyone who was involved, from organizing and planning to clinic operations.

As part of Midwestern University’s commitment to the One Health Initiative and interprofessional education, optometry students performed several vision tests as part of a binocular vision screening on incoming dental students at the University’s Eye Institute in Downers Grove, Illinois, and Glendale, Arizona.

Three students from Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry (NSUCO) were crowned the EssilorLuxottica Academic Challenge champions for 2023 at the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) Academy meeting in New Orleans.

Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry is pleased to announce that Dr. Stacey Coulter, OD, MS, FAAO, FCOVD, has been named Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs.

Football season can be a challenge for Cheyenne Willard ‘27OD. Particularly when she has a big test coming up. Take, for example, one recent weekend. She had spent considerable time watching college football on Saturday and was preparing for a Sunday full of National Football League (NFL) action.

NECO presents alternative ways to understand how we see

 

The New England College of Optometry (NECO) Center for Eye Care has a new interactive experience featuring a tactile image of the visual system on display at 930 Commonwealth Ave. A tactile image allows touch and sound to stimulate a sensory experience for the brain to create a visual image that allows a person to ‘see.’ The visual system is complex, but this learning tool helps individuals understand the inner workings of the brain that create a visual understanding of the world.

The Clinical Directors and Administrators and Externship Directors Special Interest Groups (SIGs) held their joint annual meetings at The Ohio State University (OSU) on September 21 – 23, 2023.

The Low Vision Special Interest Group (SIG) met on October 12, 2023. Dr. Rebecca Krammer gave an update on the small incision next generation IMT (implantable miniature telescope) with special attention on the role of optometry.

The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is pleased to announce the release of the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Version 3.