Women In Optometry

In a previous poll, about half of the respondents said they would prefer working a part-time schedule of (ideally) 3 or 4 days a week. What's keeping you from doing that?

Kristin White, OD, and Kevin Cornwell, OD, are heading off to Nicaragua this week.

Do optometric offices offer time off for new parents?

By Kristin O’Brien, OD—As I looked ahead at my future and career, I always thought I would live near my hometown in North Dakota and have to pick a career in agriculture to stay in the area.

By Jenelle Mallios, OD, FAAO—As the Chief of Pediatrics at the State University of New York's University Eye Center, I enjoy my time seeing patients in the clinic and teaching optometry students.

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Melanie J. Denton, OD, MBA, FAAO, says that she always envisioned her own practice would be a place where her patients could feel at home.

Is the 5-day workweek so 20th century?

When Mona Sood, OD, and her husband, Satti Sarai, OD, bought their first practice together in the University Village area of Chicago, Illinois, 12 years ago, they didn’t realize that it was the first step toward owning and operating four optometry practice locations.

For 20 years, Bedford Eye Care was located in the same mall. Toby Mandelman, OD, selected it as a place to start her practice soon after the Bedford, Nova Scotia, mall came under new ownership that reinvigorated it and practiced there for 10 years as the practice grew.