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The generous support of Essilor, Transitions Optical and The Vision Council is making it simple for you to show you care about Optometry Cares during Optometry’s Meeting®.

• Attend the CAN’T MISS Thursday night event

Bring your cash and credit card to “buy” stage time for your karaoke performance during Optometry’s Got Talent—or pay not to perform! You can also take a shot at the “Dunk-a-Dean” tank—all for a great cause. What could be better than spending an evening with friends and colleagues and raising funds for InfantSEE®, VISION USA, Optometry’s Fund for Disaster Relief and the other programs of the Foundation? Read the rest of this entry ?

Arizona InfantSEE® provider Caroline Griego, O.D., averages about three InfantSEE® assessments per month. One of her patients last month was 7-month-old Josie Sullivan-Wiltz who was born two months premature. Josie’s mom, Jennifer, said vision was a “topic that came up during pregnancy because Josie was genetically predisposed to minor vision issues. However, neither her mother or father inherited those issues. So, we were curious as to where she would fall.” Read the rest of this entry ?

Text4baby recently expanded the messaging it provides to expectant and new mothers and infants’ vision will now be represented among the updated messages.

Text4baby is the free mobile information service launched in 2010 that provides timely health information to pregnant women and new moms from pregnancy through a baby’s first year. 

Currently, the Text4Baby program has more than 155,000 enrollees. Read the rest of this entry ?

The National Optometry Hall of Fame, administered by Optometry Cares, will welcome two new inductees into the elite group of optometrists at a meet-and-greet-style gathering held during Optometry’s Meeting® at the Salt Palace Convention Center Thursday, June 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

This year’s inductees include: William R. Baldwin, O.D., Ph.D., Lester Caplan, O.D., and Gerald E. Lowther, O.D., Ph.D. Read the rest of this entry ?

The program has also received a steady stream of thank you letters and e-mails from grateful patients in the past few months. Here are the most recent ones:

“Gary and I both want to express our appreciation to us for the help you have given us in obtaining eye exams and necessary glasses. We could not have done this without your organization.

What we thought would be a very minimal eye exam was in fact, a very comprehensive examination. It also brought to light the fact that I need to be seen by a retina specialist. This would not have come to be known if it had not been for your organization.

If we get to a position to do so, we will definitely remember your organization to send a donation of whatever we can. We are also going to let the people that gave us your name know the fantastic service we received.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work. God Bless your organization.”

Gary and Rosmaria R., Texas

“Just wanted to thank you for the referral, Dr Thomas Reagan was a delight to have check my eyes. He was very informative and encouraged questions.
 He did a great job.

Thanks again,

Sandra B., Georgia”