@NatOptAssoc

Mission: Advancing the Visual Health of Minority Populations

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nationaloptometricassociation.com
Joined February 2010
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World Sight Day 2024 is just 50 days away! This year’s #LoveYourEyes campaign highlights the importance of prioritizing child eye health & gives children the opportunity to love their eyes. Pledge to make your child’s eye health a top priority at iapb.world/make_a_pledge.
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Developed by the WCO Education Committee, the WCO Competency Framework for Optometry highlights the competencies required for optometry to participate most effectively in the international eye care agenda. Learn more: worldcouncilofoptometry.info….
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Study reports the presence of circulating tumor cells in patients with small choroidal lesions that were histopathologically validated as uveal #melanoma, highlighting the diagnostic potential of liquid biopsy for early detection of malignancy. ow.ly/nBav50PuVyt
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Kindness counts! 🧡
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Important reminder! 🙌
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Beautiful work led by Krzysztof Palczewski & Jennings Luu: Pharmacological strategy to slow retinal degeneration in retinitis pigmentosa & AMD. @UCIrvine @illuuminator @UCIMedSchool @UciCtvr #NEIfunded @PNASNews: bit.ly/3nPiI2t
Caption: Molecular mechanisms of stress resilience-enhancing drug (SRED) therapy. Retinal degeneration involves a complex, multifactorial combination of genetic factors and environmental exposures that accumulate over a lifetime and eventually overwhelm intrinsic stress resilience mechanisms, which can be enhanced pharmacologically by SREDs to alleviate disease and preserve vision.

ALT Caption: Molecular mechanisms of stress resilience-enhancing drug (SRED) therapy. Retinal degeneration involves a complex, multifactorial combination of genetic factors and environmental exposures that accumulate over a lifetime and eventually overwhelm intrinsic stress resilience mechanisms, which can be enhanced pharmacologically by SREDs to alleviate disease and preserve vision.

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Today provides an opportunity to reflect on optometry’s role in expanding access to quality eye care. This #WorldOptometryDay, you can download & share WCO's Committed to Eye Care graphic, reaffirming the individual commitment of optometrists to advance accessible eye care.
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Optic Nerve Most Vulnerable to Tobacco During Fetal, Early Life 🚬 Patients whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had thinner peripapillary RNFLs. reviewofoptometry.com/articl… #optometry #eyecare #retina
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The Department of Veterans Affairs lifts language that had restricted care from doctors of optometry, opening up access to veterans around the country, after persistent advocacy by AOA, AFOS, the Mississippi Optometric Association and other stakeholders. aoa.org/news/advocacy/federa…
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Two UABSO faculty members received awards at the recent @NatOptAssoc convention. Dr. Gerald Simon was named the NOA Optometrist of the Year, while Dr. Keshia Elder received the Millicent Knight Trailblazer award.
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We are having a great time at @NatOptAssoc. Are you here? Stop by to say hi!
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Researchers recently reported a higher incidence of RRD later in life, a sex-related risk in RRD repair and retinal break treatment and a less pronounced seasonal variation for RRD repair and retinal break treatment. For more: reviewofoptometry.com/articl…
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Drs. Powell and Howlette were two great men with vision to have founded @NatOptAssoc #BlackHistoryMonth
UMSL Eye Care@UMSLEyeCare21 Feb 2022
Today we celebrate two pioneers in optometry that made a difference! #NationalOptometricAssociation 👓 #BlackHistoryMonth
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As we celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we want to recognize the @NatOptAssoc for their commitment to decreasing the health disparity in minority communities and promoting diversity in vision care providers. Learn more at bit.ly/3fXpj3i
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Today we celebrate two pioneers in optometry that made a difference! #NationalOptometricAssociation 👓 #BlackHistoryMonth
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Join DEI & PCO in welcoming Dr. Boone to Salus on Wed,October 21 6-7pm. Afterward,Dr. Boone will present Dr. Mittelman with the NOA School of the Year Award that Salus/PCO was awarded this summer @ the NOA Conference.The program will be livestreamed on Instagram @SalusUniversity
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Charles-Bonnet Syndrome = visual hallucinations in people with visual impairment Study by @NatEyeInstitute Intramural researchers in @AAOJournal: 12% of AREDS2 (macular degeneration) patients had these hallucinations Potentially debilitating, more frequent than I’d guess (1/2)
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Met with @NatOptAssoc this morning. More like glad to see the @NatOptAssoc this AM. #eyedoctorjoke instagram.com/p/q1iEgkqn-s/
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Drs. Johnson-Brown and Ramsue-Thompson from @NatOptAssoc came to ICO today #NOA #JazzHands
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