Monthly Archives: June 2018

When Priti Patel, OD, was completing her residency after graduating from optometry school, “no way did I think I would switch gears to focus on anything other than direct patient care,” she says.

Kelly Aung, OD, and Pete Chinosornvatana, OD, her husband, have been able to create a practice model that allows them to keep expanding their clinical and business skills with the full support of Luxottica behind them.

Sarah Frye Heywood, OD, grew up with Walmart.

For five years, Jean Barden, OD, worked in two of the four practices owned by another doctor.

Despite the impressive advances made in contact lens materials and designs, anywhere from 16 percent to 20 percent of contact lens wearers drop out of contact lenses each year.

Among the U.S. population of children under the age of 5, now more than half are children of color, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. These changing demographics bring increasingly diverse spending power among women and minority markets, in particular.

For the owners at Eye Vision Associates in Nesconset, New York, becoming a VSP Global® Premier Program participant was not a difficult decision.

The artsy downtown of Austin, Texas, provided endless inspiration for Kim Wampler, OD, as she and her husband relocated their practice Cedar Park Vision earlier this year.

By Marjolijn Bijlefeld—As a generalization, “women in optometry” seems quite two-dimensional, a simple label.