This month's Optometrist spotlight is on Dr. Erin Swift, O.D., F.A.A.O who hails from San Diego and works for a VA Hospital. We got to ask her questions on her career path, a typical day, why she chose this practice and more more.
What is your current mode of optometry practice?
I am a solo practitioner in a private practice specializing in pediatrics and custom contact lenses on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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What is your current mode of optometry practice?
I am semi-retired, having sold both of my private practices in 2007. I still serve as a contract optometrist at the California Veterans Administration Home in Chula Vista, CA, working two days per month (perfect for my busy lifestyle). It has nearly 300 residents, ranging from independent to assisted to skilled nursing health care levels.
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Describe your career path from graduation to where you are today
Upon graduation, I hustled! I worked 3 or 4 optometry jobs so I could earn as much as possible to start paying down my loans. I worked in retail optometry, ophthalmology and a private optometric practice at the same time making myself available for fill-in work wherever and whenever I could. In 1995 I started my own practice which I worked hard to grow by “pounding the pavement” and learning marketing. We moved from a small facility in 1999 to a more visible building and have expanded from 1000 square feet to 2500 square feet and finally in October 2014 to our state of the art facility of 5000 square feet.
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What is your current mode of optometry practice?
Education. Pediatrics, infant vision and binocular vision-specifically strabismus and amblyopia
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What is your current mode of optometry practice?
I work as an associate at a private practice in Carlsbad, CA.
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Our OD spotlight for the month of July is Dr. Stephanie Woo, O.D., F.A.A.O., F.S.L.S.
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Dr. Jason Tu received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Irvine and his Doctor of Optometry degree from the Southern California College of Optometry.
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Michael A. Kling (Mick) is owner and CEO of Invision Optometry, a private optometric practice located in San Diego, California. He earned his Doctor of Optometry degree, with honors, from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN and went on to complete his residency training in Ocular Disease at Omega Eye Care Center in Jackson, TN.
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Dr. Brooke Messer, OD, FSLS received her doctor of optometry degree from Southern California College of Optometry, and subsequently went on to specialize in Cornea and Specialty Contact Lenses by completing a one year residency.
She is a highly trained optometrist in fitting specialty contact lenses for keratoconus, post surgical corneas, and other corneal diseases, as well as multifocal contact lenses, orthokeratology contact lenses for myopia control and pediatric contact lenses.
Dr. Messer has authored articles for publications such as Contact Lens Spectrum and Review of Optometry, and enjoys teaching other doctors complex contact lens fitting techniques in classroom and clinical settings.
Dr. Messer is a member of the American Academy of Optometry, Scleral Lens Education Society and the Contact Lens Society of America.
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