Optometry Times On the Air

Being a military spouse, procuring corneas, dry eye, and beignets

Scleral contact lenses, academia and mentoring students, sushi, skydiving

Opening a cheese shop, communication, and fearful ODs

Impact on health care, MBA at Yale, slow cooking

Contact lens research and innovation, playing sport, moving to Canda from the UK

Retiring from the Academy, flipping thinking, taekwando, and tequila

Pediatric optometry, cosmetology, and giant tubs of popcorn

Recording a Christmas album, working with a spouse, and inspiring female ODs

Nutrition and eye care, dark organic chocolate, and walking across hot coals

Ocular nutrition, playing the piano, and almost dying on the river

Pediatric optometry, daily disposables, and napping

Running for office, diversity in optometry, and mentoring students

Contact lenses, academia and leadership, and a good sandwich

Barbecue, OD-MD communication, lifelong learning

Convergence insufficiency, neuroplasticity, and hanging upside down over a cliff

Academia, contact lenses, beer, and climbing a water tower

Cornea, almost two residencies, and a Vietnamese hoagie

Private practice, diabetic retinopathy, and changing optometric education

Practicing in Canada, contact lenses, and riding motorcycles

Learning from U.S. ODs, focusing on contact lenses, and shivering in Red Square

Contact lenses, communications, and knowing how to properly bill and code

Falling into low vision, working with family, and driving blind

Toys for free eye exams, community service, and $2,000 Manolos

Nutritional science, residency benefits, marketing yourself, and living on Estrogen Island

Millennials, luxury eyewear, social media, and zip lining

Optometry in the White House, TBI, and learning military lingo

Opening cold, driving a Lamborghini, buying a house on the QT

Changing profession, online CE, and working with your dad

Public health, advocacy, antiquing, and good guacamole

Air Force, PhD, risotto, jumping out of a plane

Collaborative research, fantasy football, and rappelling down your building

Casablanca, dry eye, and throwing axes

Sharing space with another OD, ODs on the front line of primary care, and Motorcycle Weekend

Designing frames, moving to Idaho, and going retro

Working with kids, myopia, In-N-Out Burger

OD research, the future of dry eye, being a wild man

This month’s podcast guest Chandra Mickles, OD, MSc, FAAO, FSLS, is an associate professor at Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry and the dry eye service coordinator on campus.    She is passionate about educating the next generation of optometrists about the importance of treating even the earliest stages of dry eye and exploring new technology that can improve a patient’s day ...

Research shows that eight to 15 percent of patients with acute PVD have an associated retinal break that needs repair. However, the symptoms of flashing lights and floaters associated with acute PVD with no retinal break last on average up to three months.   For some patients, however, the floater itself is a cause of significant disturbance. How can ODs help patients whose lives are disrupte...

In this podcast, Defocus Media explores what ODs need to know to position Acuvue Oasys with Transitions for success in their practices and what patient expectations to manage before getting started. 

Arkansas became the fourth state to expand optometry’s scope of practice (https://www.aoa.org/news/advocacy/arkansas-secures-expanded-scope-of-practice) to include the use of noninvasive laser surgical procedures, including YAG capsulotomy, selective laser trabeculoplasty, and laser peripheral iridotomy. The Arkansas bill passed through House and Senate chambers with bipartisan support before b...

Unless you have been avoiding the Internet at all costs, you have likely seen an abundance of ads for new contact lens subscription services. These companies market their lenses on convenience and affordability, targeting patients directly instead of going through the normal doctor-driven prescribing and dispensing channels.    We sat down with Ryan Corte, OD, who practices in the growing met...

At the end of every eye exam, Janelle Davison, OD, always asks patients if they have any other questions. She was surprised at how often the questions were related to makeup suggestions, eyelash growth, and cosmetic treatments around the eye. “Why don’t you have a place in your office to offer cosmetic services so I could get treatments done and still be under your care and supervision?” came t...

Instead of waiting to let the future happen to him, Walt Whitley, OD, FAAO, has focused on innovating and creating opportunities in his optometric career. He has made a name for himself in ocular surface disease and the opportunities for relationship-building between optometry and ophthalmology.

If you have skimmed a few summary articles and are thinking, “Dry eye not really changed much for me,” we’re highlighting the biggest takeaways from TFOS DEWS II that will make you rethink what you think you know about dry eye treatment in our podcast with Drs. Jennifer Craig, Lyndon Jones, and James Wolffsohn

If the rate of change in optometry this year has your head spinning, hold on tight with this next one. On September 18, 2017, Johnson & Johnson Vision (JJV) announced the acquisition of Sightbox (https://sightbox.com/) , an online contact lens subscription box service that sells direct to consumer Acuvue contact lenses, and yes, contact lenses from the three other major contact lens manufacture...

Danielle Richardson, OD, discusses how yoga has influenced her optometric practice, patient care, and ability to balance the daily demands of optometry and being an entrepreneurial professional.

Colin Carr, founder of Carr Healthcare Realty which represents only healthcare buyers and tenants, answers the most common questions he receives from private practice optometric owners.

On this podcast, we sit down with Claudine Courey, OD, MSc, FAAO, an OD who is embracing dry eye treatment on a new stage—the world of online retail.

Early detection is key to improved outcomes for these patients born with retinoblastoma, as Dr. Bryan Shaw learned firsthand. Dr. Shaw is not an optometrist but a biochemistry professor at Baylor University. When he was completing his postdoctoral work, he got devastating news: his son was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma. Once Dr. Shaw found out that he had the signs of Noah’s cancer in...

Matt Geller, OD, shares data on OD salaries, happiness, and more.