AOA Advocacy Roundtable

Overview

Optometry has gained an essential and expanding role in health care through its well-informed, relentless and winning approach to advocacy. For the profession’s advancement to continue and for favorable policies to be enacted and take firm hold in the current environment, optometry’s most committed supporters must base their strategies and decision-making on the most trusted, current and detailed information and policy intelligence. At a time when anti-optometry interests are more active, more unified, more coordinated and better funded than ever before, the profession’s champions are being invited to lead, connect, strategize and speak out on the range of opportunities in the legislative and regulatory arenas that will shape the delivery of essential eye health and systemic care now and into the future.

Mission

To help assure the success of optometry’s public policy agenda through the establishment of an interactive forum for supporters of optometry and the AOA to evaluate and discuss the legislative and regulatory policy issues in Washington, D.C., and state capitals that stand to impact the practice and profession of optometry.

Structure

Facilitator: The AOA President

Continuous Support: The AOA’s Senior Federal and State health policy staff

Participants: Organizations supporting the AOA and Optometry

Participants

Participation in the AOA Advocacy Roundtable is open to organizations supporting the advancing practice of optometry and the public policy mission of the AOA, including corporations, funds or limited partnerships with an ownership stake in an individual practice or group of practices.

Please contact Adrianne Drollette at ADrollette@aoa.org if you are interested in joining.