Dr. Carol F. Merritt is one of only three optometrists listed in the Black Pages, a directory of St. Louis businesses targeting African Americans. She says there are a few more black eye doctors in ...

UAB School of Optometry faculty and staff will do one action daily to further their understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity during the 21-Day Diversity and Equity ...

New York, NY: SUNY College of Optometry received the 2024 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest ...

New York, NY— This week, the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry held a continuation of their annual webinar series, Race in Optometry which started in 2020. Aimed at fostering a ...

BOSTON, Aug. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dr. Angela Abraham has been appointed as the first-ever Diversity and Inclusion Liaison for the New England College of Optometry (NECO). Dr. Abraham will be ...

BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New England College of Optometry (NECO) announced today the receipt of a grant from the The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, ...

Even after earning multiple degrees, Elder continued to push herself. She took an online course and won a degree in diversity, equity, and inclusion and, by 2020, became UABSO’s first director of ...

Midwestern University optometry student William Wooley is the latest recipient of the prestigious VSP Global Diversity Admissions Scholarship. This scholarship is made possible by VSP Vision, the ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results of a diversity, equity and inclusion benchmarking survey showed that independent optometrists often ...

Paul Ajamian, OD, center director at Omni Eye Services of Atlanta, was the honored Springer lecturer for 2025 at the UAB School of Optometry. His lecture reflected on the evolution of co-management in ...