A Message from the AOS President
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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Membership page of the American Optometric Society. We are a unique professional optometric association, where every member is an optometrist and he or she has a direct voice in the organization. The AOS is your professional organization where the membership directs and advises the leadership. As a member, we value your voice, your input, and your membership. The AOS membership is passionate about our profession, the direction it is heading, and deeply concerned about the issues facing our members and colleagues. Issues include board certification, maintenance of competency, access and parity in the health care arena, the increase in optometric institutions and placement of graduates, to name just a few. We have made a deep impact in a short time and continue to stretch. Our board consists of practicing optometrists, from a very wide and extensive background - just like our membership. We regularly survey our members, ask for their input, and do our utmost to meet and address the concerns of the AOS. We are committed to representing you and work to impact our profession in a positive and professional manner. We continually explore new and improved ways to help strengthen and market our profession, including developing and marketing PSAs and being involved in the legislative and political arena. We welcome you as a member, regardless of mode of practice, you are a member of our optometric family and a colleague. Pam |
Greetings!
You have discovered a new and growing, member-driven optometric organization, the American Optometric Society (AOS). Founded in 2009, the AOS is comprised of optometrists who have united to speak with a stronger voice in the future of their profession. The AOS is here to bring optometrists together.
The AOS believes that optometry needs an organization whose leadership serves the wishes and needs of its membership, that listens, and that is directly accountable to its members. This is the foundation of the AOS, where the members directly elect the leadership, one member-one vote, and the leadership regularly polls the membership on important issues, always respecting its membership’s collective wisdom.
We are optometrists from every possible practice venue. We are bound together by the belief that in order to have a strong and effective profession, the views of individual optometrists must be respected and represented. We recognize the essential value of the AOA and support the AOA as the voice of the profession. At the same time we believe that the AOS will make the AOA stronger by representing individual optometrists and holding the AOA accountable for decisions that affect us all. If, like the AOS, you believe that you should have a say in direction of our profession and want your voice heard, the AOS is your organization. We invite you have your voice heard and join us as members of the American Optometric Society now.
The American Optometric Society: “Giving Optometrists a Voice in Their Profession”
The AOS Membership Committee
Charlie McBride OD, Oregon
Dave Carlton OD, California
Aj DeVivo OD, Ohio
David Miller OD, Louisiana
Martin Theobald OD, Minnesota
