As an active duty Navy officer, Dr. Salazar treated all kinds of patients. ended up doing basically everything that I would need so that once I graduated, I could join the active duty Salazar completed her active duty component, she was Chief of Optometry for the VA at Lovell Health Care meant that while I was stationed there, I treated all kinds of patients: recruits, veterans, and active-duty By the end of my four years on active duty, I was the Chief of Optometry for the VA portion of the clinics

(2 hours) COPE Approval pending 11:15 AM Yi Pang, OD – Myopia Control: Whom to target with myopia interventions

responsibilities include advising the department director on public health policy, emergencies, and control

Pang seeing one of her myopia control research subjects. on the specialties that interest them whether that’s glaucoma, cornea and contact lenses, or myopia control So, for example, my specific area of interest, myopia control, has huge public health repercussions.

White Courtney Carmain Class of 2026, Fall 2022 Tina Dobos Mikayla Kemp Pa Vang John (Jack) Latham Jana

To keep ICO affordable to the best students, we have worked hard to keep our tuition costs under control

Bainbridge Lovedeep Banipal Vrunda Bhatt Kevin Blackett Monica Chu Miae Chung Tea Dimo Eric Duresa Paul Eros

no grade below a B or H (honors) in all third- and fourth-year patient care courses: Class of 2020 Ali Smith, Lindsey Sykora, Kelsey Tritsch, Erica Ward, Carley Class of 2022 Abbott, Sarah Albin, Matthew Ali , Sarah Ali, Zahra Askar, Zacharia Bade, Bjorn Bartczak, Tanner Bergman, Nicole Cao, Jiamin Gibbs, Kaitlin Juliana Wallace, Whitney Class of 2023 Al-Khazraji, Sayf Bainbridge, Chloe Bhatt, Vrunda Blackett, Kevin Eros , Paul Hernandez, Christian Jaitly, Mansi Jedlinski, Lauren Jiang, Lai Karra Aly, Sarah Karthikeyan,

As our population ages, as the baby boomers get older, they’ll need more medical care.

Gaynes, OD '83, PharmD, MS, FAAO Abigail Gonsalves, OD '19, FAAO Beth Healy, OD '03, FAAO Kathryn Elizabeth

Optometric Association, Iowa Optometric Foundation, Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry, North Central

The next meeting will be this fall at the VA Central Office in Washington, DC. Dr.