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The 2025 Opportunities in Optometry application is now open.
Join us for our Blast from the Past student challenge to learn more about optometric history and knock out an AOA+ requirement before Optometry's Meeting. AOA CE Credit also available for this event.

InfantSEE Heads into 20th Anniversary in 2025

A program of The AOA Foundation, InfantSEE continues to provide essential eye health and vision care for infants

Grants deliver fresh perspectives and enthusiasm

New grant recipients are already embracing optometry and searching for new ways to elevate eye health across America.

Field Notes: Florida doctor recounts hurricanes Helene, Milton

Media reports describe “devastating” winds, rain and flooding as Hurricane Milton makes landfall—how a Tampa Bay area doctor comes to terms with not one but two hurricanes in as many weeks.

Major victory for West Virginia patients, optometrists

West Virginia’s scope victory makes it the thirteenth state in the nation to authorize doctors of optometry for ophthalmic lasers, bolstering patients’ access to this level of care.

Study: ‘Unprecedented’ optometry scope of practice expansion benefits patients

The gains were strongest for Medicare beneficiaries and rural patients.

1 year strong, Myopia Collective advancing a new standard of care

A groundbreaking partnership between the AOA and CooperVision that launched last spring, the Myopia Collective’s 3,500 members are just getting started on their mission to elevate the standard of care for children with myopia.