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Among the offerings at SCO's Spring CE Weekend (April 13-14) is an Injections Procedures for Primary Eye Care Wet Lab. Taught by Drs. Jennifer Sanderson and Jason Duncan ('96), the workshop is a great refresher regarding injections procedures in the optometric setting. Register now or learn more about this year's program, 2024 Innovations and Updates. | |
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At the recent SECO meeting in Atlanta, hundreds of SCO alumni enjoyed networking and visiting with each other at the college's annual reception. Many more photos may be viewed in our gallery here.
Horace Deal, OD '97, was installed as SECO President, with Matt Burchett, OD '02, as Treasurer and Christine Cook, OD '98, as Immediate Past President. T. Joel Byars, OD '63, received the Distinguished Service Award. Congratulations!
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Last call to prepare for the solar eclipse that will be visible across much of the country on April 8, 2024. American Paper Optics, the largest manufacturer of eclipse glasses in the country, has partnered with SCO to offer our alumni glasses for reselling or sharing with your patients to promote safe eclipse viewing. Learn more about ordering glasses here. | |
Classnotes and Updates
News about SCO's Students, Alumni and Faculty
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Fred Farias III, OD '87, Chair of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Mollie Armstrong Leadership Award, presented by the Texas Optometric Association. | |
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Meghan Elkins, OD '10, was installed as president of the Armed Forces Optometric Society (AFOS) at the SECO meeting, pictured above.
She also had more to celebrate after marrying Sebastian Parsley on Feb. 24 in West Virginia, also pictured above.
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Tindall Morrison, OD '17, was named the recipient of Mississippi State's Emerging Leader award. Read more here. | |
Alex Leong, OD '18, is joining the Emory Eye Center optometry practice at Grady Hospital's Camp Creek Campus in Atlanta. Read more here. | |
Drs. Marie Bodack, David Maze, and Morgan Ollinger, accompanied by Clinical Research Coordinator Elaine Turcotte, recently won two national awards at the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group Winter Study Group meeting in Tampa. The awards were for 100% follow up for two research studies (IXT-7), which looks at full-time patching for the treatment of intermittent exotropia, and (ATS-22), which looks at glasses alone v. glasses with patching as initial treatments for amblyopia. Congratulations! | |
Dr. Lindsay Elkins ('07) recently was named by the Memphis Business Journal to the publication's list of Higher Education Women Who Lead, recognizing accomplishments of women in leadership roles at higher education institutions. | |
Dr. Christina Newman recently traveled to the Coopervision Educators Meeting in Costa Rica. | |
Dr. Chris Borgman and other faculty members recently participated in the Surgical Eye Care Foundation's CE Seminar 2024 hosted on the SCO campus. | |
Dr. Elyse Rayborn ('20) and Michelle Kelley, Director of Ophthalmic Services and Materials, represented SCO at the Transition Academy meeting in Orlando. | |
Dr. Barbie Jodoin ('15) recently completed her Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago. | |
Dr. Chris Lievens and other colleagues recently published an article on "Refitting contact lens dropouts into a modern daily disposable contact lens" in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. | |
Drs. Marie Bodack, Jason Duncan ('96), Andrew Rixon, and Glen Steele ('69) were among the SCO faculty who lectured at this year's SECO meeting. | | | | |
