Tag: Dr. Darryl Glover

Treating dry eye has significant hurdles - chief among them being that many patients experience minimal or limited relief even after treatment. We're joined...

We’re in the middle of a public health crisis, even as COVID-19 numbers improve and life begins to return to normal for millions of...

Across the United States, EssilorLuxottica has created digital “out of home” ads to help engage with potential patients about the importance of seeing their eye doctor. This type of campaign is above and beyond simple social media posts, actually leveraging the geolocation tracking operating in the background of our cellphones. Physical ads will be placed in major thoroughfares like airports, and with geolocation tracking, anyone who has been in a location to have seen a physical advertisement will then be tracked for ads to be served in their social media feeds that reinforce the conversation.

With 41.6% of Americans affected by myopia and evidence of rapidly increasing rates of myopic progression experienced by kids during the COVID pandemic, optometrists are being called upon to help slow down this global epidemic. Surveys show that the majority of US based optometrists (87% in a 2019 poll) are interested in offering myopia management in their practices, but very few are actually doing so. Fitting rates of myopia management contact lenses for children is under 5% in the USA currently. So how do we make the shift from being interested as a profession to actually providing myopia management to our patients?

We celebrated #MyopiaAwarenessWeek by sharing the mission and actions of the Global Myopia Awareness Coalition and what is being done to bring public awareness to myopia...

Millennials, Meet Presbyopia. In the conversations around building a practice, doctors often focus on niche and specialty care. But there is plenty of untapped potential to grow a thriving and busy practice around serving the needs of patients that are in your chair. Studies show that in the average optometry practice, 40% of patients are over age 40. And those numbers are poised to grow even larger; the oldest millennials turn 40 in 2021, and at 73 million people, they are the largest living generation in the USA, accounting for 25% of the total population.

We are so excited to have Vision Expo East back for 2021, running from June 2-5 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Dr....

Join us on a new episode of OPTOCRIBS where Dr. Brittany McMurren will be streaming a live tour of her office, Werner Optometry. Dr....

It's a crossover episode! Drs. Roya Habibi and Jimmy Deom of Try Not to Blink will be joining Drs. Darryl Glover and Jennifer Lyerly...

Drs. Darryl Glover and Jennifer Lyerly join Dr. Thomas Pinkston to discuss his path to opening his own private practice. After graduating from UAB...