American Academy of Optometry

And so I can book a movie for me and all of my friends without them having to do anything.

Yeah, because you booked the movie for us last Academy.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, you did that.

Hopefully we can find some time to sneak around and get a movie at this Academy.

Academy's coming up, you guys, in a couple weeks.

Yeah.

So we'll be out there asking folks their favorite movies and such and blah, blah, blah.

As many of you know, he is a respected authority on treating patients that need specialty lenses.

Dr. Jedlicka is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, a fellow of the Scleral Lens Society, and of the Contact Lens Society of America.

He is also a diplomate of the American Academy of Optometry's section on cornea, contact lenses, and refractive technologies.

This is a big deal.

Only about 160 doctors are members of this prestigious section of the AAO.

And I think that the challenge there is getting the therapies that work to market, convincing the industry, including investors, that what we're saying and what we're forecasting is going to become a reality, and then getting the whole universe of ophthalmic diagnostic devices, disease, I guess, like the American Academy of Ophthalmology has to recognize myopia and the steps in the care of myopia and ordain those so that practitioners can go out and do the diagnostics and bill for them and get paid.

Same has to be true for the American Academy of Optometry.

And they have to ordain the steps and and allow for optometrists to bill and be reimbursed for the care.

So the ecosystem is not quite in place yet.

Dr. Mesner is a Vice President and Professor of Optometry at the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago.

He's a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and served as Chair of the Academy's Neuro-Optimetric Disorder Special Interest Group.

He was recognized as 2013 Illinois Optometrist of the Year, has received the Presidential Medal of Honor from Sallis University, and has also been honored as Teacher of the Year at ICO 24 times.

Dr. Messner, thank you for all you do, and thank you for joining us today.