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OD Q&A: Matt Geller, OD
How has OptometryStudents.com changed the conversation in optometry? We give [students] the issues of what's going on in the profession but not to a degree where they're going to become overwhelmed. We...
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OD Q&A Melanie J. Denton, OD
Why choose optometry? I am myopic, and I’ve been seeing an optometrist since I was in fourth grade. When I was in college and deciding among dentistry, medicine, and optometry, my dad said I should...
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OD Q&A Michael W. Ohlson, OD, FAAO
How did you get into optometry? I really don’t know. I was working in San Francisco, I had a biology and chemistry degree, I didn’t like what I was doing anymore and met an optometrist. I had good...
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OD Q&A: Millicent Knight, OD
What made you choose optometry as a career? I have to reflect back on a conversation with my dad. He said that he was sent home a note from school saying that they suspected I had some vision problems...
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Dave Sattler, FAAO, Director of professional relations—academic development,...
How did you get started in pharma sales? It was my second “real” job. It was an opportunity when Alcon was building its optometric sales organization, it’s first endeavor as Vision Care. I was one of...
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OD Q&A: Hunter W. Chapman, AOSA Trustee, AOA-PAC National Liaison, SCO...
Why is OptometryStudents.com important to the profession? My generation tends to communicate a lot on social media and on the Internet. With OptometryStudents.com, we’re able to use that as a...
View ArticleQ&A: Joseph T. Barr, OD, FAAO, Emeritus Professor at the Ohio State...
Why did you choose optometry?My grandfather was one of the first instructors in the 100-year old College of Optometry at The Ohio State University. I never knew him; he died when I was two. He had an...
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Q&A: Devin Sasser
Where did you grow up? I grew up in a small town called Mesquite, TX, right on the edge of Dallas, a small suburb. Texas weather is very temperamental (no pun intended), so there are days when it’s...
View Article10 Questions for Alan Glazier, OD
How did get started in optometry? My father became an optometrist because of an eye infection he had as a child. He recovered from it and that prompted his interest into eyes. I wanted to go into...
View ArticleOD Q&A: Glenda B. Secor, OD, FAAO
Where did you grow up? Northern Indiana. I live in southern California now, but I grew up in Indiana. My husband and I were college sweethearts. We did undergrad at Purdue together. I went on to...
View ArticleOD Q&A: Dori Carlson, OD
How did you find optometry? I was the kid who was in the optometrist’s office when I was young because I couldn’t see the chalkboard when I was in third grade. My optometrist put me in contact lenses...
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Q&A: Jill Autry, OD, RPh
Where did you grow up? I grew up in nowhere, North Carolina, an hour south of Raleigh and 20 minutes north of Fayetteville. It was really in the middle of tobacco country, and I grew up barning...
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Q&A: Kelly Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD
How did you get interested in optometry? Midway through my education at University of California in San Diego, I was meeting with guidance counselors about what type of medical field I might like, and...
View ArticleQ&A: Eric White, OD, owner of Complete Family Vision Care, San Diego
Where did you grow up? I was born in Chicago. My parents decided when the winters were really bad they needed to move, and we moved to San Diego when I was a youngster. I truly, honestly love San...
View ArticleQ&A: Jeffrey Sonsino, OD, FAAO
Where did you grow up? I grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia right on the edge of Valley Forge National Park. We used to dig up our back yard to find little Revolutionary War trinkets.When did you get...
View ArticleOD Q&A: Barbara Horn, OD
Why optometry? My brother when he was a child, the oldest, got to have vision therapy at a little optometrist’s office. My mother and I would sit there and watch him go through his therapy, and I...
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Q&A: Leslie O'Dell, OD, FAAO
Where did you grow up? I grew up in York, PA, which is where both of the practices that I worked at since graduating are located. I never thought I would come back to York or work in York, but here I...
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Q&A: Monica Roy, OD, MPH, FAAO
Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Ohio. I did all my academic and clinical training at The Ohio State University in Columbus, so I’m a true Buckeye at heart. What prompted your interest...
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Q&A: Howard Purcell, OD, FAAO, Diplomate
Why contact lenses? I started my practicing with my father. We had a substantial geriatric population in the south Florida area. So, I decided to get into low vision. This would be a way I could grow...
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Q&A: Mary K. Mercado, OD, digital marketing manager for CooperVision, Inc.
Where did you grow up? I grew up in Alameda, CA, been a NorCal girl my whole life. Born in Berkeley, went to school 100 percent in Alameda, private school my entire life. That’s where I went to...
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