Dr. Borish graduated from the Northern Illinois College of Optometry – a predecessor to ICO – in 1934. He served on the school’s faculty for eight years, including as assistant dean. He then established a private practice in Kokomo, Ind., and was instrumental in starting the Indiana University School of Optometry and the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry. Dr. Borish’s influence has been felt at ICO and every other optometry school in the nation for decades. He authored numerous textbooks, including the much-used Clinical Refraction, and was granted five patents for contact lenses, including bifocal contacts. He was a founding member of the Indiana Chapter of the American Academy of Optometry, was a president of the Indiana Optometric Association and the editor of the Indiana Journal of Optometry. He served as adjunct faculty at several schools. When Dr. Borish retired from IU in 1982, he assumed the Benedict Professorship of Optometric Practice at the University of Houston. The school later established the Irvin M. Borish Chair in Optometric Practice, an endowed chair with more than $1 million of support. In 1995, Indiana University honored him by establishing the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research. Dr. Borish received numerous awards during his career, including the the prestigious AOA Apollo Award for the visual betterment of mankind in 1968 and the AOA Distinguished Service Award in 1989. He was inducted into the National Optometry Hall of Fame in 1998. Dr. Borish is survived by his daughter, Fran Goldman, of Dallas, Penn. #FatherofModernOptometry #IrvinBorish #obituary

The space has been transformed into a modern space with swanky areas for students to study and interact Chicago-based architectural and interior design firm Jensen & Halstead didn’t waste any time getting

Chicago-based architectural and interior design firm Jensen & Halstead will implement the renovation.

The new facility is located on the ICO campus and is committed to the vision care needs of an aging population The center offers primary and secondary vision care to adults, vision rehabilitation and adaptive technology “Aging patients need specialized attention, and our approach to care includes technologies and therapies “We believe the $1.82 million center represents a new standard in patient-focused care, not only in Chicago Designed by Chicago-based architecture and interior design firm Jensen & Halstead, the Rosenbloom Center

Clinic Partnership WHO & WHAT: The eye clinic at Princeton Elementary School was established in January 2011 to bring eye and vision care to CPS students identified as needing additional vision testing but who Since then, more than 5,000 students have received much-needed care and follow-up treatment as needed ICO and CPS invite you to an Open House to commemorate this first year of providing eye care services

The study included assessment of 14,663 CPS students who visited the clinic between January 2011 and Study findings include: Of the students seen at the clinic, 15 percent had moderate to severe uncorrected this clinic – located inside Princeton Elementary School, which was closed by CPS in 2009 – opened in 2011 and provides needed eye health and vision care to thousands of underserved CPS students. include eye exams, vision therapy, visual information processing testing, optical coherence tomography, anterior

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Institute has been selected as the only optometric clinic in the U.S. to investigate non-arteritic anterior Eligible patients for the prospective case-crossover study are adult men with acute or sub-acute vision

ICO’s COPE-approved CE courses available online include: Contact Lens Updates for the Primary Care Optometrist Prescription Formulas for the Pediatric Patient OCT for Macular Disease Diagnosis and Management of the Anterior Segment Scleral Lens Care and Handling Exotropia Management …and many more to come!

Within optometry, I am particularly interested in the anterior segment and our urgent care patients. Some of my favorite patients first came to me as urgent care patients. It also helps that I find the anterior segment fascinating. I have worked in direct patient care for a long time. Technology can aid health providers in terms of better patient care, safety, record keeping, efficiency

us to use the operating funds for just that, the operation of the program, while still being able to modernize Why should students, faculty, staff, alumni care that ICO has refinanced its debt?

We welcomed this month five residents in primary care and ocular disease, two in pediatrics/binocular Independent of their chosen field, all came to deepen their understanding of optometry and to become shout out to all of the residents off-campus: Off-Campus Residencies Noelle Bock (Ketchum) Residency in Anterior (ICO) Primary Care and Ocular Disease Residency, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center Joshua Falk (Western), Megan Horter (Midwestern) Primary Care/Brain