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Distinguished Service Award Recipients

Nominees will be evaluated for long-term or lifetime achievement according to a point system allocated to two principal areas:

Contributions of personal effort and time on behalf of the profession's advancement in such areas as:

• leadership roles within the profession.
• organized optometry at national, state, and local levels.
• continuing education, as a writer and/or lecturer.
• education as a teacher or administrator.
• legislation furthering the advancement of optometry.
• research.

Involvement on behalf of the profession of optometry, in such areas as:

• interprofessional health care organizations, committees, boards, or groups.
• interprofessional organizations, committees, boards or groups outside of the health care area.
• international health care or other organizations, committees, boards, or groups.
• standards, i.e., as a representative of optometry with standards organizations and committees.
• public health, in a leadership role.
• the military, in a health care leadership role.