Your source for fresh news updated daily on topics ranging from clinical eye care to advocacy to practice management tips.

Benefits of regular comprehensive eye exams reinforced in analysis of military exams

The cost-benefit analysis, conducted by a national nonprofit research group, found comprehensive eye exams for all service members more cost-effective relative to basic acuity screenings.

AOA Foundation disaster fund provides shot in arm to devastated practices

With 2024 winding down, how do you help support colleagues enduring an unexpected disaster?

Identifying reading difficulties in children

How to differentiate between various visual problems and provide timely and effective intervention.

Mobilizing against myopia

The AOA is on the march to close the gap in access to children’s eye care and improve outcomes for families across the country.

Advocacy updates

Town hall draws hundreds as AOA and affiliate advocacy earns back millions

AOA and affiliate advocacy wins result in nearly $3 million retrieved on behalf of doctors of optometry in 2024. Read how the AOA and affiliates are fighting for fairness. They were updated at a profession-wide, live-streamed town hall on Oct. 29.

'All the advocacy firepower’ called up at AOA on Capitol Hill

Over 500 AOA doctors and optometry students championed the profession’s priority issues in Washington, D.C., including a growing Congressional focus on vision plan abuses.



AOA Focus

AOA Focus is the magazine for AOA members. AOA Focus delivers a blend of updates, in-depth analysis and personal stories from doctors of optometry across the country on topics that matter most to the profession. This big-picture view is the perfect complement to the daily updates members get at AOA News.
AOA Focus