New Specialists in Medical Optometry
The Board would like to publicly announce and welcome all those Optometrists who are newly certified in the Specialty of Medical Optometry. For ease of reading, honorifics have been omitted from the list below.
If you work with any of these new Specialists, please introduce yourself and congratulate them – as, you know, they’ve done a great deal to accomplish this!
- Veronica Acuña
- Laryn Adams
- Jacqueline Balderas
- Anne Bertolet
- Joan Browne
- Emily Carell
- Aaron Case
- Joel Causey
- Vincent Chan
- Lisa Chan-O’Connell
- William Cheek
- Janel Chou
- Shannon Cummings
- Matthew Diggory
- Timothy Elcyzyn
- Jessica Gee
- Jacob Goeser
- Benjamin Graham
- Allison Guindon
- Kelsey Hensen
- An Hoang
- Catherine Hogan
- Molly Johnson
- Kelsey Jordan
- Charles Kinnaird
- Halie Cottrill Kitzman
- Donya Kobari
- Michelle Lee
- Gabrielle McGuire
- Samira Mortazavi
- Jimmy Nguyen
- My-Chau Nguyen
- Kathryn Owen
- Chelsia Park
- Jennifer Prunty
- Lauren Ristin
- Carolina Ruiz
- Vanessa Saltzgaber
- Talin Sarkissian
- Melissa Schiffer
- Michelle Schleis
- Sarah Sharrard-Boughton
- Alaina Short
- James Smith
- Brooke Smith
- Heather Spampinato
- Michael Quan Anh Tran
- Grace Tsan
- Janessa Visin
- Andrew Weibel
- Kristin Wilson
- Mary Wittendorf
- Brenda Yeh
Honorifics
ABCMO has approved the use of 2 Honorifics at this point in time. They are listed below using (illustrative) Dr. Abbie Seemo as an example.
Abbie Seemo, O.D., FAAO
Board Certified by ABCMO
or
Abbie Seemo, O.D., FAAO
Board Certified in Medical Optometry by ABCMO
Notes
You are not required to use italics, but it looks good in signature lines.
You can opt for putting everything on one line too, especially in non-signature prose: Abbie Seemo, O.D., is Board Certified in Medical Optometry by ABCMO.
Using “naked” ABCMO is not approved: ie: Abbie Seemo, O.D., ABCMO.
It is important to recognize that the use of “Board Certified in _____” is standard within Medicine and well-understood by the public.
Journal of Medical Optometry
The Journal of Medical Optometry (JoMO) has now published 4 issues. If you haven’t seen the latest issue yet please check it out and, of course, consider submitting your own article(s) for publication. Remember, this is your journal.
Journal of Medical Optometry (Website)
Journal of Medical Optometry (Facebook)
The amount of quality work put forth by journal authors along with the full Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief Doug Rett, O.D., FAAO cannot be understated.
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