Women In Optometry

The 2025 Women's Leadership Conference will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Boston. The Theia Awards of Excellence ceremony...

It was always the goal of Talia Mishkin, OD, to open her own practice. She’d grown up watching her father manage a multi-location MD/OD...

A new law will ease the burden of federal training and education requirements for doctors of optometry and expand access to and treatment of opioid use disorders—and specifically recognizes...

Five members of The Myopia Collective, a joint initiative between the American Optometric Association (AOA) and CooperVision, met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill November...

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For much of the past decade, Macey E. McAleer, OD, had been running a corporate lease while raising her children. As they settled into...

The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has announced the results of the November 2025 Geographic Representative Elections and several key leadership appointments that will...

EssilorLuxottica announced the creation of its Scientific Advisory Committee, bringing together some of the world’s most sought-after scientists and thought leaders from the converging...

The Contact Lens Institute™ (CLI) has published “Shifting Focus: Generational Perspectives of Contact Lenses & Eye Care” to help the eye care community better understand and...

In her third-grade classroom, young Stephanie Thai-Fernandez, OD, wrote on her “About Me” worksheet that when she grew up, she wanted to be an...

Women In Optometry regularly recognizes the awards and accomplishments of those in the profession and in their communities in the “Awards and Recognitions” series. Have you...