ROB Professional Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, speaks with Miki Lyn Zilnicki, OD, FCOVD, and Jessica Licausi, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, about how they differentiated their practice with vision therapy services, including how they leverage patient financing to grow their practice.

The Coronavirus pandemic tested our ability to provide continuity of care, including ensuring patients had all the products they had been prescribed. The CareCredit credit card has given Patty Casebolt’s OD-MD practice another resource to make it more likely patients leave from the office with the eyewear that will improve their vision and quality of life. In a podcast sponsored by CareCredit, Casebolt shares with ROB Professional Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, how she and her colleague...

The Coronavirus pandemic caused emotional and financial distress for patients. Those challenges, by extension, were felt in optometric practices. Fortunately, says Dave Anderson, OD, his practice has a resource that is making it easier for patients to pay for the care they need while helping the practice to recover financially. Listen as Dr. Anderson talks to ROB Professional Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, about it in a podcast sponsored by CareCredit.

Dr. Mart Wright and Dr. Roxanne Achong-Coan discuss maintaining a strong cash flow and insights from the year 2020.

One area of practice that has grown consistently over the last decade within optometry practices is medical care. Dr. Mark Wright and Dr. Matthew Ward discuss how we can do this even better.

Dr. Mark Wright and Dr. Justin Manning discuss creating a winning Patient Experience.

In a podcast sponsored by Visioneering Technologies, Inc., (VTI) Susan Resnick, OD, FAAO, FSLS, president of Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick & Associates in New York City, shares how to ensure comfort and a high level of satisfaction among multifocal contact lens wearers, including the difference having a lens like NaturalVue® Multifocal 1 Day Contact Lenses makes to successfully serving these patients.

Building Ortho-K services requires guidance from experienced practitioners, the right instrumentation and a great lens design. As a part of the The Ortho-K Knowledge Bank, Steven Turpin, OD, MS, shares how he created a thriving Ortho-K practice.

Presenting Ortho-K to patients and parents can be an uphill climb. You often need to communicate the very concept of Ortho-K, describe the process it entails, set expectations and establish the overall value of it. As a part of the The Ortho-K Knowledge Bank, Steven Turpin, OD, MS, offers advice on successfully making Ortho-K a part of your practice.

Dan Press, OD, FCOVD, of Park Ridge Vision in Park Ridge, Illinois, discusses how educating patients and families on the benefits of myopia management are key to success in this specialty. A third-generation OD and VT specialist shares valuable insights.

Mark Kahrhoff, OD, speaks with ROB Profession Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, on how he came to develop a practice specializing in rehabilitative care for patients who suffer concussions, dementia and other conditions that affect the visual system.

Damon Dierker, OD, of the Intrepid Eye Society.

Whitney Hauser, OD, and Mark Schaeffer, OD, offer their thoughts on how optometric education and CE need to change to meet fast-changing needs of ODs in practice and entering practice. This ROB In-depth discussion is moderated by Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, ROB Professional Editor.

Larry Macapagal, OD, Director of Optometry at Permanente Medical Group in Southern California, speaks with ROB Professional Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, on how a large medical organization engages with patients through telehealth to widen access to care and improve eyecare delivery.

ROB Professional Editor Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, explores the question: "Can an OD trained in clinical skills cross over and think like a business person?" Taking part in this ROB roundtable are thought leaders Penn Moody, OD, of Indianapolis and Michael Kling, OD, of San Diego.

Michael Kling, OD, speaks with Mark Wright, OD, FCVOD, ROB Professional Editor, on the full range of considerations that go into selling your practice to Private Equity-backed firms or to other ODs. "The question is complex," says Dr. Kling, "and you need to consider your personal timeline and understand the details to make the right decision at the right time for you."