OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE December 9th 2012 | WORCESTER – Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has announced the hiring of Dr. Shilpa J. Register as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Dr. Jeanette M. Sewell as Associate Dean for Clinical Programs in the College’s School of Optometry. Both plan to be on-site January 3, 2012 as the College works […]
January 7th 2012- Glaucoma, right behind cataracts is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. January marks National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Some of the biggest groups and organizations in eyecare are educating the public about this blinding disease and to get comprehensive eye exams such as the American Optometric Association, Prevent Blindness America, the
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Ophthalmic Resources On Demand Tool Takes Home Two eHealthcare Leadership Awards January 7th 2011- The Ophthalmic Resources On Demand tool launched by the American Optometric Association took home two eHealthcare Leadership Awards at the 15th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference in November. Selected from 1,200 entries, the AOA platform won Platinum Award for Best Health/Healthcare Content
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By: Stefania Paniccia – IAUPR Those of us who are fortunate enough to have invested in an iPad®, iPhone® or iPod touch® understand the efficiency and capacity of these incredible devices. They have transformed how we communicate and share information in our everyday, hectic lives. The familiar phrase “there’s an app for that” also applies
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Hey everyone this is Matt Geller, OptometryStudents.com Founder and Senior Editor. I wanted to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year and another great year in optometry school! I wanted you all to get a look inside OptometryStudents.com and so I posted some interesting facts and figures for 2011 which you can find below.
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Update about ‘Allow Optometrists in Puerto Rico to prescribe therapeutic pharmaceutical agents!’ on Change.org Colleagues and friends: The petition reached today the landmark 800 signatures! We still need 200 more signatures to reach the 1,000 goal. The government has started to acknowledge the petition and I have the confident that the issue would be resolved
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Spain, 4th of December, 2011 Salus Optometry School By: Fernando Sanchez OptometryStudents.com reached out to me and asked me to write about the studies of optometry in Europe. I am currently finishing my Master of Science in Clinical Optometry at Pennsylvania College of Optometry and I would like to explain my experience as student in
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By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY 2013 November 27th 2011- The 21st U.S Optometry school is set to open in Massachusetts and has been granted preliminary approval. The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) is set to begin its Doctor of Optometry program in August 2012 with 64 students at each level. The Accreditation Council
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By Rae Huang SUNY 2013 Hundreds of optometrists, students, and vision science researchers gathered at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA for the annual American Academy of Optometry (AAO) meeting October 12-15, 2011. For optometry students interested in vision science research, the Academy meeting is a happy medium between networking based meetings like Optometry’s
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By: Matthew Geller | OptometryStudents.com Founder & Senior Editor Everyone in the optometric profession- ODs and students alike – is anxious to know how the opening of new optometry schools will affect our future. With a spectrum of opinions on the issue, some are confident that the profession will benefit from more schools, while others
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