Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... Want to listen to an overview of the articles rather than read? Click here My Favorite Links When Glaucoma Meets RetinaAn excellent Review of Optometry article exploring how posterior segment diseases like glaucoma and retinal disorders overlap—and why that...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links Huberman on Vision & Eyesight: The popular podcaster, Andrew Huberman, PhD, walks through the neuroscience and behavioral protocols for maintaining and improving visual function. It's not optometry-specific, but it's packed with clinical pearls...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links What’s Floating in Your Vitreous? From microplastics to environmental toxins, this short read from Healio opens up a conversation we’re not having enough in ocular health: how our broader ecosystem might be influencing the eye. Read here....
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links What Kind of Leader Are You? - If you’re leading a team but feeling stuck or stretched, this quick breakdown of leadership styles is worth reflecting on. Not every OD needs to lead like a CEO—but we do need to know how we naturally lead and how...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links Redefining Primary Care Optometry – John Martinelli lays out a compelling vision for optometry’s role as primary eye care providers. If you’re looking for a fresh take on what comprehensive optometry should look like, this is worth the read....
3 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links What can we learn from Amazon's success? Be relentlessly obsessed about our customer, says the Why That Worked Podcast with Donald Miller. As optometrists, are we more relentless about perpetuating our systems or focused on learning and...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links It seems like everyone's talking about Mindset these days. See the Deep Dive below for 9 mindset shifts to improve AMD management. For now, read Dr. Bethany Fishbein's article in Review of Optometric Business about how our perceptions can...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links As I work on creating a Nutrition & Longevity pillar at my practice, I’m diving into articles, both trade magazine and peer-reviewed research, on how diet and lifestyle impact ocular health. Here are two new ones I found: This article by...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Optometry Simplified. In this biweekly newsletter, I've curated the best resources to help you grow personally and professionally. My mission is to find what's best for my patients and my practice. Here's what I've found... My Favorite Links Do you have a protocol to evaluate your patients for ocular surface disease (OSD) before referring them for surgery? This insightful video by Christopher Starr, MD at Optometry Times explores the benefits of using a systematic algorithm to...
5 months ago • 5 min read