WO Voices
Episodes
The Empowered OD: Dr. Mary Anne Murphy - Embrace Change
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Empowered OD series, sponsored by Allergan, Mary Anne Murphy, OD, of Broomfield, Colorado, says that despite the uncertainties ...
The Empowered OD: Dr. Selina McGee - Make Every Word Count
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Empowered OD series, sponsored by Allergan, Selina McGee, OD, FAAO, of Edmond, Oklahoma, explains how she became more intention...
The Empowered OD: Dr. Neena James - Leading an Empowered Staff
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Empowered OD series, sponsored by Allergan, Neena James, OD, of Huntsville, Alabama, explains how cultivating an empowered staf...
Kirsty Bortoft: Feeling Stressed? Here's Help
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Bortoft, a UK-based mindset coach and meditation teacher, offers a four-step plan to deal with stress head on. Prolonged stress has physical co...
Dr. Leslie O'Dell: The Opportunity in Medical Services
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie O'Dell, OD, FAAO, is the first regional clinical director for Medical Optometry America and is working to open the organization's fir...
Maggie Craddock: Sensing When It's Time for the Lifeboat
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Craddock is the author of Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption. She joins WO Voices in this second podcast to discuss h...
Dr. Angela Abraham: At the Intersection of Social Justice and Eye Care
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Abraham, OD, is the newly appointed Diversity and Inclusion Liaison at New England College of Optometry. Hear as she talks about the school&apo...
Dr. Hannah Cho: Creating a Model for Launching Multiple Practices
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Cho, OD, of Irvine, California, started her independent practice about eight years ago. In the next six or so months, she plans to open seven m...
Dr. Elise Brisco: Dr. Brisco's Beauty and the Beast - Taming Dry Eyes
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elise Brisco, OD, FAAO, CCH, FCOVD, of Hollywood Vision Center in Los Angeles, California, details the way she combines the latest technology along wi...
Maggie Craddock: Our Emotional Relationship With Money
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Craddock is the author of Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption. She joins WO Voices to discuss the emotional connection...
Dr. Michele Andrews: Introducing the Myopia Management Conversation
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Andrews, OD, Senior Director of North America Professional & Academic Affairs at CooperVision, discusses how clinicians can—and why they...
Dr. Linda Chous: Could Coronavirus-Related Stress Result in More Increased Nonorganic Vision Loss?
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Chous, OD, owner of the whimsically named The Glasses Menagerie in Minneapolis, Minnesota, encourages ODs to be on the lookout for a possible sp...
Dr. Melissa Barnett and Dr. Stephanie Woo: The Thrill of a Specialty Lens Practice
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2020, Stephanie Woo, OD, FAAO, FSLS, opened the Contact Lens Institute of Nevada in Las Vegas, a clinic dedicated entirely to custom contac...
Dr. Jennifer Stewart: How Crisis Creates Innovation
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Stewart, OD, of Norwalk Eye Care and Performance 20/20 has been using this time to catch up on webinars and education, spend time with family...
Dr. Bridgitte Shen Lee: Reopening
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bridgitte Shen Lee, OD, FBCLA, FAAO, and her practice partner reopened Vision Optique in Houston, Texas, with safety protocols in place to help protec...
Dr. Kelechi Mezu-Nnabue: Routine Eye Care and Foundation Work On Hold; Planning Ahead
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kelechi Mezu-Nnabue, OD, MS, MPH, DrPH, worries about the patients she serves in her Pikeville, Maryland, practice, as well as those who would normall...
Dr. Dorothy Hitchmoth: The Primary Importance of Primary Eye Care
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From keeping patients with ocular infections out of emergency rooms and urgent care clinics to providing counseling on ocular and systemic health issu...
Dr. Cheryl Murphy: Dealing With Coronavirus Uncertainty - One Day at a Time
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cheryl Murphy, OD, of Long Island, New York, details some of the steps that the doctors and staff members are taking to do what they can to flatten th...
Dr. Monica Johnsonbaugh: How Opening a Practice Let Me Shave 15 Years Off My Student Loan
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monica Johnsonbaugh, OD, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, worked in a variety of settings before opening her own practice, Focus 313 Eye Care. The revenue ...
Dr. Susan Resnick and Dr. Viola Kanevsky: Can a Cash-pay Practice Work for You?
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Resnick, OD, FAAO, and Viola Kanevsky, OD, both have busy private practices in New York City. Both are almost exclusively cash-pay practices. Th...
Dr. Debby Feinberg: The Need for Neurovisual Optometry Is Huge
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Debby Feinberg, OD, FAAO, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is one of the leading voices in the field of neurovisual optometry. She has trained 27 eye ca...
Dr. Melanie Weiss: Being Clean and Sober Is an Amazing Feeling (Part 2)
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Weiss, OD, in the second part of a two-part podcast, describes how she found help in treatment and in a supportive community, including optome...
Dr. Melanie Weiss: Battling an Opioid Addiction (Part 1)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Weiss, OD, of Watertown, South Dakota, had it all: a loving husband, three beautiful daughters, a successful optometry practice. Her opioid ad...
Dr. Emily Bjore: $400K in Combined Student Loan Debt Is Gone
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Bjore, OD, of Eagen, Minnesota, and her husband had accumulated nearly $400K in student loan debt. Hear how they decided to scrap the 30-year-re...
Dr. Michele Andrews: Recognizing Leadership Opportunities
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You don't have to look far to find an opportunity to flex your leadership muscle, says Michele Andrews, OD. "Start where you are." Dr. ...
Dr. Nadia Virani: Perspectives from Inside the OMD Office
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Virani, OD, of Dallas, Texas, expected to go into pediatric optometry when she was presented with a great opportunity to join an OMD practice. E...
Dr. Jennifer Stewart: Part of the Team
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Jennifer Stewart, OD, reaches the milestone of a decade in practice ownership, she reflects on how a leap of faith became the best move in transiti...
Dr. Whitney Hauser: Clinical Protocols Are Like a Roadmap
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Having a clinical protocol in place can make the journey of clinical decision-making and consistency so much clearer. Whitney Hauser, OD, now director...
Dr. Julie Steinhauer: Giving Vision Therapy a Boost Through Syntonic Phototherapy
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Steinhauer, OD, FCOVD, of Vision For Life in Glen Carbon, Illinois, has been offering developmental vision care exclusively now for more than se...
Angela Fisher Aprahamian: Don't Push Recalls Off
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Fisher Aprahamian of National Recalls in Los Angeles, California, says that optometric practices can have effective recall strategies for react...
Dr. Sally Halim: How Training for a Triathlon Helps Sharpen Practice Skills
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Halim, OD, of Village Eyecare in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, trains for a half dozen or so triathlons or half Ironman races a year. The train...
Dr. Millicent Knight: Finding Leadership Opportunities Where They Arise
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Even when she was an optometry school student, Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, began to advocate for the profession and patients. In her new role a...
Dr. Meg Richardson: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Opening a practice involves making so many important and expensive decisions—where, what it looks like, who it serves, what products to carry and wh...
Dr. Nicole Trabuc: Running a Practice Their Way
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Trabuc, OD, and her husband, Kyle Wainwright, OD, have two practices in Manhattan, Kansas—one which Dr. Wainwright took on inside a Walmart a...
Dr. Samantha Hornberger: "Sales" Is Not a Dirty Word
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Hornberger, OD, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, realized her patients follow her treatment recommendations a large percentage of the time. Why? Bec...
Dr. Carol Alexander: Leadership Matters
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Alexander, OD, FAAO, Head, North America Professional Relations at Johnson & Johnson Vision, discusses how she followed leadership opportuni...
Dr. Michelle Ahumada: Not the Practice-opening Sequence She Expected, But the One That Worked
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eighteen years after her graduation, Michelle Ahumada, OD, opened her own practice in Rancho Mission Viejo, California. She talks about what led her t...
Dr. Kimberly Friedman: The Value of Balance
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kimberly Friedman, OD, FAAO, of Moorestown, New Jersey, talks about the choices she made to find balance between her career, work for the New Jersey S...
Dr. Lori Grover and Dr. Melissa Zaleski: Engaging in the Profession
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Grover, OD, PhD, FAAO, and Melissa Zaleski, OD, MPH, discuss strategies for creating a professional network once the infrastructure of a school-b...
Dr. Julie Tyler: Academic Careers Brings Expected and Unexpected Opportunities
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Tyler, OD, FAAO, of Nova Southeastern College of Optometry, discusses the unexpected ways that mentorship, leadership and professional collabora...
Dr. Caroline Guerrero Cauchi: You Can Make Myopia Management Part of Your Practice
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Guerrero Cauchi, OD, FIAO, of La Mesa, California, talks about the upcoming orthokeratology meeting (orthokmeeting.com) May 15-19. She descri...
Dr. Rachael Wruble: Negotiate for the Win-win
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rachael Wruble, OD, FAAO, of Belmont and Charlotte, North Carolina, says a job offer is more than a salary. Here are her suggestions for negotiating a...
Dr. Athena Brasfield: Success in a Low-income Area
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Athena Brasfield, OD, wants to close the disparity in access to eye care. Her practices in the desert communities of Indio and Coachella, California, ...
Dr. Lori Grover: Low-value and High-value Services
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Evidence-based practices matter in helping to establish which services are of high value and which ones are of low value, says Lori Grover, OD, PhD, F...
Dr. Jenny Coyle: Educating Tomorrow's OD
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Coyle, OD, MS, FAAO, Dean of the Pacific University College of Optometry, discusses how much optometric education and optometry students have ch...
Dr. Theresa Colonna: Checklists Streamline Training and Review
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Theresa Colonna, OD, of Westminster Eyecare Associates in Providence, Rhode Island, discusses the importance of using checklists for systematic, consi...
Dr. Stacey Coulter: The Littlest Eyes - Pediatric Optometry
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel A. “Stacey” Coulter, OD, MSEd, FAAO, FCOVD, associate professor in NSU’s College of Optometry, discusses the importance of pediatric opto...
Dr. Sherrol Reynolds: The National Optometric Association's Mission and History
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sherrol Reynolds, OD, FAAO, president of the National Optometric Association talks about the organization's rich 50-year-history and its mission ...
Dr. Theresa Colonna: Use Customized Video Training for Staff
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Theresa Colonna, OD, of Westminster Eyecare Associates in Providence, Rhode Island, has mastered a strategy for consistent and thorough staff training...
Dr. Pam Lowe: The Three Pillars of Practice Success
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pamela Lowe, OD, FAAO, of Niles, Illinois, discusses the three essential pillars to a successful practice and professional life: advocacy, education a...
Dr. Sherrol Reynolds: The Three Silent Killers - A Campaign from the NOA
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sherrol Reynolds, OD, FAAO, president of the National Optometric Association talks about Three Silent Killers, one of the public awareness campaigns f...
Dr. Pam Theriot: A Patient's Step-by-step Treatment Guide
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Theriot, OD, FAAO, is the author of Alleviate Dry Eye, an eight-week program and workbook for patients. The program uses a four-step treatment pla...
Dr. Kerry Giedd: Pack up the Family; We're Going on a Mission Trip
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry Giedd, OD, FAAO, of Orlando, Florida, has been traveling to the Dominican Republic for years to provide refractive eye care services. It's ...
SmartMoney - Jill Showalter, OD: Building a Dry Eye Practice
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sharing this from our friends at Review of Optometric Business and CareCredit. Dr. Jill Showalter describes how she can make specialized eye care serv...
Dr. Shauna Thornhill: Move Over, Santa
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shauna Thornhill, OD, of Amarillo, Texas, discusses how her annual Sight Before Christmas project has grown. Each year, her practice donates about 200...
Dr. Sandra Young: A Sea Buckthorn Smoothie Changed My Life
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Young, OD, author of Visionary Kitchen: A Cookbook for Eye Health and Heal Your Dry Eyes: Nutrition and Recipes, discusses how certain foods ca...
Dr. Rachael Wruble: Young ODs - Know Your Worth
17 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rachael Wruble, OD, FAAO, of Belmont and Charlotte, North Carolina, is the 2018 Theia Award Young OD winner. Listen as she shares negotiating tips tha...
Dr. Lauretta Justin: What to Look for in Team Members
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lauretta Justin, OD, of Millennium Eye Center in Orlando, Florida, talks about the advantage of a four-hour final work interview. It's one of the...
Dr. Lauretta Justin: Success Leaves Clues
03 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lauretta Justin, OD, of Orlando, Florida, talks about the lessons learned in opening a practice and the importance of developing a mission plan.
Dr. Whitney Hauser: Can You Dabble in Dry Eye?
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Hauser, OD, says that doctors don't need to invest in expensive technologies to start diagnosing and treating patients with dry eye sympt...
Dr. Sandra Young: Refrigerator Alchemy: Nutrition for Eye Health
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Young, OD, author of Visionary Kitchen: A Cookbook for Eye Health and Heal Your Dry Eyes: Nutrition and Recipes, joins us to share recipes and ...
Dr. Lauretta Justin: Building Ramps - Strategies for Working With Special Needs Kids
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lauretta Justin, OD, of Orlando, Florida, shares strategies for working with children with special needs, many of them gleaned from her own experience...
Dr. Melissa Barnett and Dr. Melissa Zaleski: Staying Grounded and Enthusiastic
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, from Sacramento, California, and Melissa Zaleski, OD, MPH, from Tampa, Florida, return to ask each other questions an...
Dr. Melissa Barnett and Dr. Melissa Zaleski: Different Perspectives
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, from Sacramento, California, and Melissa Zaleski, OD, MPH, from Tampa, Florida, share their perspectives as an experi...
Dr. Melissa Barnett: The Joy of Fitting Scleral Lenses
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, from Sacramento, California, is a leading authority on scleral lenses. She's the co-author of Contemporary Scler...
Dr. Maria Sampalis: Push Through the Fear
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Sampalis, OD, of Cranston, Rhode Island, recently released her book, Finding Your Best Potential Future Self Now. She discusses the importance o...
Dr. Dori Carlson: Life After an AOA Term
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dori Carlson, OD, FAAO, of Park River, North Dakota, shares that after her year as president of the American Optometric Association, she sought new ou...
Dr. Laurie Sorrenson - Choose Your Team Carefully
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Sorrenson, OD, FAAO, of Lakeline Vision Source in Austin, Texas, talks about the importance of bringing on associates who can help you grow you...
Dr. Dori Carlson: Finding Your Inner Leader
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dori Carlson, OD, FAAO, of Park River, North Dakota, talks about how she found herself outside of her comfort zone as she grew into leadership positio...
Dr. Laurie Sorrenson: Practice Culture
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Sorrenson, OD, FAAO, of Lakeline Vision Source in Austin, Texas, talks about her growing practice reflects the culture of the community and the...