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The AOA's Practice Growth & Advocacy Conference, a new multi-faceted event held Sept. 16-19, equipped attendees with the insights, strategies and connections needed to strengthen practices, elevate patient care and shape the future of optometry.
Doctors of optometry can counsel patients on rare but serious side effects of popular weight loss drugs.
During Paraoptometric Appreciation Month, we celebrate the staff who keep practices running effectively each day. One group in Atlanta brings a professional development program to life to elevate the skills and expertise of its paraoptometric team.
Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety Chair and Past AOA President David Cockrell, O.D., joined federal health leaders at a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services symposium examining the impact of screen use on children, ensuring myopia, early detection and children’s eye health were front and center in nationa
AOA’s pediatric experts share practical strategies for examining and managing patients from infancy through adolescence, including how to apply the AOA’s age-specific Children’s Vision Chairside Guides in everyday practice.
HCAPS representatives call on legislators to support Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act.
Kimberly Pickle, CPOA, the 2026 Paraoptometric of the Year, on how paraoptometrics make a difference in optometry.
Practice owners no longer need to file beneficial ownership information reports.
Nearly 35 AOA Federal Keypersons mobilized for a targeted Capitol Hill fly-in at a critical moment for federal Vision Benefit Middlemen (VBM) reform, urging congressional leaders to advance bipartisan protections for patients and their doctors.
Strong presence of AOA doctors on Capitol Hill and alliances with patient advocacy groups referenced in hearing on urgent physician concerns.
Amy Ngo, a member of the Class of 2027 at The Ohio State University College of Optometry, on the importance of student advocacy.
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