AOA works toward accrediting body for optometry
July 16, 2018
Healio News – Outgoing American Optometric Association President Chris Quinn, OD, in his final presidential address to the House of Delegates during Optometry’s Meeting, explained how the group is continuing to work to develop an accrediting system for postgraduate education.
Quinn told the delegates that the AOA is working with the American Academy of Optometry, the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry and the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry, “to create an independent, credible accreditor of CE consistent with the principles adopted by the profession in Dallas at the CE summit held in 2016, modeled after other health care professions like medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, pharmacy and podiatry.”
J&J leadership pursues technological advances, continued advocacy
July 16, 2018
Healio News – “We are interested in becoming the world leader in eye health,” Johnson & Johnson Vision’s head of contact lens research and development, David Turner, PhD, said at a company-sponsored press conference here at Optometry’s Meeting.
“We are focused on delivering outstanding products for all of the unmet needs,” he said. “We have great capabilities internally, but we look outside for the very best technology and science to bring into our next generation of products. We try to create products that are better and change the quality of our patients’ lives."