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2024 Theia Nominations Are Open!
CLICK HERE to nominate your colleagues for the 2024 Theia Awards of Excellence, the ninth year that this awards recognition has been given.
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Meet the Student Advisory Board: Gaby Malave, IUSO
Gabriela “Gaby” Malave has a thing for serving others. When she was younger, she thought she’d turn that innate passion into caring for animals...
Meet the Student Advisory Board: Gracie Dorschner, AZCOPT
Gracie Dorschner admits she had a rough start to optometry school. She tore a ligament in her knee just a month before her nearly...
Recognizing Optometry’s Female Trailblazers
Women In Optometry has been honoring women for excellence and their contributions to the optometric profession through its annual Theia Awards. The first awards...
Meet the Student Advisory Board: Paige Wagar, UWO
Paige Wagar has always been disciplined. Wagar competed in ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and musical theater starting when she was four. Finding that it...
Women in the News – February 2024
Women In Optometry regularly recognizes the awards and accomplishments of women ODs in the profession and in their communities in the “Women in the News”...
Contact Lens Institute Names 2024 Visionaries
The Contact Lens Institute has named 19 established and emerging eye care community leaders as 2024 Visionaries. The program, established in 2021, has expanded...
Penalties for Hubble Contacts a Win for Patient Safety
By Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA, Chair, American Optometric Association Contact Lens and Cornea Section
Have you ever had a reckless driver dangerously roar past...
