By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY Optometry 2013 After the joint efforts of Optometrists and Optometry students all over the United States, the 2011 AOA Congressional Advocacy Conference was a huge success. Adam B. Weiss, Assistant Director of Political Affairs of the American Optometric Association had these encouraging words of advice for us students: “The Congressional Advocacy […]
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By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY Optometry 2013 The scope of practice in Ontario, Canada expanded in April 2011, with new privileges in prescribing medications earned by Optometrists. Optometrists can now prescribe medications to treat various eye and eye related conditions such as bacterial and viral eye infections, CLARE, glaucoma, as well as eye pain and allergies
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VSP, the largest non-profit vision care provider in the United States, has in a sense increased its scope of services, by opening an optical dispensary in San Jose, CA, inside the Cisco Campus. Now a direct provider of eyewear, what does this mean for practicing Optometrists? Will the private practice doctors suffer as a result
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By: Quy Nguyen SUNY Optometry 2013 Check out this video on the summit! For some time, the New York State Optometric Association (NYSOA) has tried to increase the level of involvement of students graduating from optometry school into organized optometry. There seemed to be a lack of understanding among students as to what the link
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By: Rae Huang SUNY Optometry 2013 For any aspiring OD/MS student or any optometry student interested in scientific research, the annual ARVO meeting is a must. What is ARVO? ARVO is the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, an association that throws an annual meeting where researchers from all around the world who study
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By: Thai Nguyen – WesternU Class of 2013 After having the privilege of learning from Dr. Tony Carnevali on the California OD laws as a guest lecturer at Western University, and knowing the fact that for the past 35+ years, Dr. Carnevali has fought many political battles for the preservation and advancement of the optometric profession,
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By: Leslie Faulkner – Northeastern State University c/o 2014 “I was inspired and motivated by the passion and energy of everyone at this meeting. I could feel it in the banquet rooms and lecture halls, but most importantly I could feel it when we stormed Capitol Hill to take our message to our state leaders.”
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Article by: Antonio Chirumbolo & Matthew Geller (SUNY 2013) March 15, 2011 was a monumental day for our profession. The American Optometric Association (AOA) announced its partnership with the 3D @ Home Consortium, with the goal of improving the understanding of 3D viewing amongst individuals all over the world. Both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding
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Have you ever been to the Vision Expo? Well if you have not you really should think twice about going this year. [poll id=”18″] Dates: Vision Expo East – March 16 – 20, 2011, in New York City, NY. Vision Expo West – September 20 – 24, 2011, in Las Vegas, NV. Student Links: Vision
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Hi, this is Matthew Geller, OptometryStudents.com Founder & Senior Editor and today I want to introduce our newest writer, Amand Tasripin from Pacific University. Amand is a talented guy with a good head on his shoulder’s and a whole lot of wisdom to share. Keep your eye out for Amand’s future articles because they will be powerful
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