Dr. Brooks
As a young myope, AOA Immediate Past President Randy Brooks, O.D., said he became inspired to pursue optometry while in the third grade and to this day still has a passion for the profession. Here, he shares how he plans to continue to advocate for patients and fellow members, and how health care reform demands that all ODs advocate for better patient access to quality vision care.
Q: How has your former role as president of the AOA prepared you to continue to advocate for your fellow members in optometry, particularly in light of New Jersey starting to form its state’s health care exchanges?
A: As an AOA president leaves the Board of Trustees, he or she is viewed as a source of information and a source for advisement and counsel to the state associations. Each of us stays in touch with state optometric association leadership, particularly in our own state. As I look back on my own experience in organized optometry, I served 25 continuous years on our state association and AOA Board of Trustees. I intend to work with New Jersey as our state starts to begin to define the role health care practitioners in health insurance reform. Read the rest of this entry ?
