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Send us Fan Mail What’s inside this episode? 🧐🧐 Dr. Nathan will answer the following questions: ❓ How many states now have access for optometrists to be able to be licensed and certified for lasers and injections? ❓ Of those that have the certification, how many are actively utilizing lasers in their offices? ❓ What does it cost an office to put in a laser to perform a YAG capsulotomy? ❓ How...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Chris, the owner of a five-location practice, will take us back to his path after graduating from optometry school. How he managed to buy his own practice while still in optometry school. 🤔🤔 And how, despite the lack of internet resources, he was able to handle it on his own. 😲😲 About Dr. Chris Smiley: Dr. Chris Smiley is a 2001 graduate of The Ohio State...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Chaglasian, where he will share his insights about the following: 👉 the diagnostics that are available, and also the ability to monitor progression over time. 👉 the significance of devoting time to analyzing quantitative data 👉 the future of glaucoma care in the presence of artificial intelligence 👉 the importance of embracing artificial i...

Send us Fan Mail It's our first anniversary and we couldn't thank you enough for the continuous support you have given us.  Listen to this special episode as we look back and share some of the highlights of the show on our Year One! 

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Dr. Marc Bloomenstein where he will give his perspective on refractive surgery and corneal crosslinking.   Marc Bloomenstein OD, FAAO Dr. Marc R. Bloomenstein is a 1990 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Biology.  He received his optometric degree from the New England College of Optometry in 1994.  After gradua...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Jeff Varanelli, and going to get insane in the membrane on the optometric insights show. This is a growing area of interest within eyecare. Both ophthalmology and optometry are embracing this treatment as a viable option for appropriate patients.  We will do a deep dive into this and discuss a clear clinical guidance.   If you're someone w...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode we are joined by Dr. Greg Caldwell to discuss Optometric Education Consultants (OEC).  The philosophy of The Optometric Education Consultants (OEC) is to help optometrists enhance care of their patients through timely, clinically pertinent, and highly interactive education. OEC assembles top clinical educators to deliver high-quality COPE-approved continuing edu...

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Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Andrew Pucker: Dr. Pucker earned his OD, MS, and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University, and he is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Clinical Research and Myopia Control at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Pucker has been the Principal Investigator of a National Eye Institute funded project related to myopia development, and he currentl...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Mitch Ibach: Dr. Mitch Ibach is a fellowship-trained optometrist at Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls, SD since 2014. Dr. Ibach specializes in anterior segment surgical care including cataracts, corneal diseases, glaucoma, and refractive surgeries. Dr. Ibach maintains a large collaborative glaucoma clinic that focuses on long-term disease care. Dr. Ibach has participa...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of The OI Show, we're joined by Dr. Jason Compton to talk about rocket fuel for growth. About Dr. Jason E. Compton: Dr. Jason E. Compton graduated from the SUNY State College of Optometry and completed his residency at the Wilmington Delaware VA Medical Center.   Dr. Compton owns a private practice ‘Compton Eye Associates’ in the New York City area.  Dr. Compt...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Justin Manning: Dr. Justin Manning is the Executive Vice President of Professional Strategies at Healthy Eyes Advantage, where he directs all member strategy, member benefit development, and education. In addition, he leads HEA’s National Advisory Board and Ambassador teams and hosts the PracticeAdvantage podcast. Prior to joining HEA, he founded The Keratoconus and Scle...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Christopher Wolfe: Dr. Christopher Wolfe is a graduate of Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry. While in school, he served as president of the American Optometric Student Association, where he represented over 6,000 members.  He is currently the Chair of the American Optometric Association’s State Government Relations Committee and the Legislative...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Lindsay Sicks Dr. Sicks graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2006 with a BA in Biology. She received her OD from the Illinois College of Optometry in 2010 and went on to complete a residency in Cornea and Contact Lenses at Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry. While in Oklahoma, she was certified in and performed therapeutic anterior segm...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Lindsey Bull: A Certified Ocular Disease Trained Optometrist currently practicing at EyeCare Associates of South Tulsa, where she enjoys utilizing the skills she has been trained for, including anterior segment laser procedures, in office surgical procedures and treatment of a wide variety of ocular diseases. In addition to her daily practice Dr. Bull is a fellow of the...

Send us Fan Mail Buying in an MD practice as an OD is not a path most of people in the optometry space which is why we are truly honored to share with you in this episode of The OI Show the incredible story of how Dr. Vin Dang ended up in a practice he is currently in.  𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵:  His incredible story of taking on a challenge to accept an offer from a practice in a location he never heard...

Send us Fan Mail Do you put off getting your eyes checked?  Eye conditions and other health problems can be detected in the early stages through regular eye tests at least every two years. An eye test could detect treatable eye conditions up to four years earlier. Yet many people don’t get their eyes tested until their eyesight deteriorates. So don’t lose sight of what’s important. Show your eyes...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Paul Chous: Dr. Paul Chous completed his undergraduate education at Brown and UC Irvine, and then received his Masters and Doctorate of Optometry degrees from UC Berkeley. Paul has a private practice specializing in diabetes eye care and education in Tacoma, WA. He is the author of Diabetic Eye Disease: Lessons From a Diabetic Eye Doctor, which was included in the “Top 1...

Send us Fan Mail About Ran Yam: Ran Yam, CEO and co-founder. Ran has decades of experience in developing optical systems and medical devices for different industries such as defense, optical communication, semi-conductors and ophthalmology . In his previous position as VP R&D for Visionix, a global leader in eye care solutions, he was responsible for developing innovative, cutting edge eye dia...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Cecelia Koetting: Dr. Koetting practices at the secondary tertiary surgical center Virginia Eye Consultants in Norfolk, VA.  Her primary focus is ocular disease specializing in anterior segment and corneal disease, neuro-optometry, and peri-operative care.  She also partakes in clinical research and the maintenance of the referral network alongside the practices other op...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Brianna Rhue: Brianna Rhue earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona before earning her Doctorate of Optometry at Nova Southeastern University. She completed her residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami and is a partner at West Broward Eyecare in South Florida. Dr. Rhue is passionate about health care technology, myopia management, speci...

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Mark Schaeffer: Dr. Mark Schaeffer serves as Clinical Field Manager at MyEyeDr in Birmingham, Alabama where he practices full scope optometry. In addition to his clinical work, he is affiliated with several pharmaceutical companies in consulting for ocular disease and contact lenses. Dr. Schaeffer is the author of multiple articles that have appeared in various journals....

Send us Fan Mail About Dr. Ilse Homan: Ilse obtained her B. Optom degree at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) in 2005, has completed various additional Paediatric and Binocular Vision Courses and is qualified in Ocular Diagnostics. She was also amongst the first group of South African Optometrists who passed the theoretical portion of the Ocular Therapeutics Course (with distinction), in collaborati...