Women In Optometry

Part III: Getting to Work By Amanda Lee, OD

With a design on paper, it was time to get started. The to-do list...

Becky DeRuyter, OD, says that she always is mindful that the office environment she presents is an important contributing factor to the patient experience, similar to the way patients take in the way she and the staff treat them.

When Palatine Vision Center reopened in its new location at the end of 2014, just a mile away from where it had been since 1971, Laura Rosanova-Philipp, OD, was surprised by the number of people who stopped by and said they didn’t even know there had been an optometry office in the area.

Dr. Leena Adhikari, OD, purchased Crystal Vision Optometry in Rancho Cucamonga, and added... well, crystal—in the form of a chandelier.

Dawn Stratton, OD, of Lexington, Kentucky, incorporated a welcoming design in her new office.

Holly Coriell, OD, took a leap of faith when she signed the lease on a new practice location in Carmel, Indiana, nearly four years ago. Another OD had been in that space, but his business had closed within two short years.

The climate in Colorado leaves many individuals susceptible to experiencing symptoms of dry eye, and Lisa Hamilton, OD, says she wanted to be able to provide thorough care and treatment for patients who were uncomfortable.

After spending more than a decade working in multidisciplinary practice settings and for a medical group insurance company before that, Anna Torres, OD, began looking for a practice to call her own in 2002. She found her opportunity when a retiring optometrist in Claremont wanted to sell the practice that she calls Optometric Vision Center of Claremont.

Now nearly three years after making the purchase, Dori Carlson, OD, FAAO, looks back and sees so many tangible and intangible benefits that resulted from adding the TRS-5100 autorefraction system.