Women In Optometry

Hutto, Texas, 30 miles north of downtown Austin, is not a large town, which might be why there was no optometrist there when Sarah Johle, OD, was looking for a place to open her new office.

In the nine years that Amy Boyer, OD, has been operating her independent practice at Walmart, she’s seen a lot of changes, and the number and impact of those changes seem to be escalating of late.

Coan Eye Care & Optical Boutique in Ocoee, Florida, is known for providing top-of-the-line eye care services and its high-end optical dispensary.

Jasmine Nguyen, OD, had never sold products beyond contact lenses and eyeglasses in her San Diego, California, practice.

Susan Daniel, OD, started her primary care practice one year out of optometry school in 1992.

In May, 13 Luxottica Retail-affiliated ODs and 25 optometry school students were part of a one-week clinic in Tanzania with OneSight.

Kelly Kerksick, OD, remembers talking with a friend who mentioned that she had begun to sell some beauty products in her optometric practice.

Explaining a child’s visual acuity to emmetropic parents is time-consuming and challenging. Or, at least, it used to be.

When Nancy Solsaa, OD, decided to join America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses immediately after graduating from Illinois College of Optometry in 1995, she didn’t expect it to become the place she would spend her career.

For Stephanie Mitchell, OD, and her practice partner, Krys Gwizdak, OD, being busy with patients is a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem.