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a panel of doctors for our students to ask questions, and a delicious lunch buf-fet. All of this is FREE to our mem-bers! Please join us in cele-brating with our 4th year stu-
dents!
The theme for this newsletter is “memorable patient en-counters.” My memorable patient encounter was during my fourth year rotation in Lawton, Oklahoma. I was performing cover test on a four year-old patient and every time I moved the oc-cluder, he proceeded to stick out his tongue and lick it! I concluded that the occluder might have looked like a lol-lipop so I decided to use my hand instead. Bad idea…as I moved my hand from one eye to the next, the kid bit me! Let me tell you, that kid knew how to bite! Since I didn’t want to lose a finger, I
moved on to retinoscopy!
Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter and for your continued support of AAOS. See you at our next
event!
Cheers,
Stacey Gin
AAOS President
Greetings AAOS Members!
I’d like to thank all of you for your continued support and dedication to our soci-ety. With your help, we had a record attendance of 150 doctors at our Spring CE Sym-posium! This is the highest attended CE that AAOS has hosted so far. We also set another record with the amount of money raised for our charitable cause. Your generous donations totaled $8,000 for the Japan Earth-quake and Tsunami Relief Ef-forts. The board has decided to donate 100% of the funds through Save the Children. Thank you!!! We hope to con-tinue to provide quality CE and raise money for good causes. This year we had an excellent panel of speakers, Drs. Skip Lusby and Tom Tooma from NVision and Drs. Julia and Alice Song from Dr. Song Vision as our speak-ers. Our raffle prizes in-cluded TWO iPad2s, a Sony Blu Ray disc player, restau-rant gift cards, movie tickets and a Kindle. We had over $1,000 in raffle prizes and would like to provide the same quality of prizes at our next event! A special thank you to Drs. John Lee and Steve Bae for the many hours spent organizing our wonder-
ful CE.
It is with your support and membership that we are able
to obtain sponsorship to help fund our society’s FREE Con-tinuing Education and fun events. Our membership totals over 200 active mem-bers. This year, we offered an incentive to pay your dues early. We gave an extra raffle ticket at the CE to those who paid their dues before a certain dead-line. If you haven’t done so already, please be sure you have paid your dues as it helps us to budget for the upcoming year. Remember, you can visit our website at www.aaos.org and make your payments via Pay-Pal. We would like to con-tinue to grow our member-ship, so please tell your friends and colleagues
about our society!
I would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for 2011: NVision Laser Eye Centers, Essilor Laboratories, Alcon, Bausch and Lomb, Vistakon, Optical Distributor Group, Clear Vision Optical and Synergeyes. Coopervi-sion and Abbott Medical Optics have recently part-nered with us and we thank
them for their support!
Our next event will be our Senior Honors Banquet on Sunday, May 15th. We will host the event at McCormick & Schmick’s at the Garden Walk in Anaheim. We’ll offer two hours of CE, have
President’s Message: Dr. Stacey Gin
Special points of interest:
DONATIONS TOTAL $8000 FOR
JAPAN RELIEF EFFORT
MAY 15: SENIOR HONORS BAN-
QUET
JULY 31: AAOS TAKAO
SHISHINO EDUCATION SYMPO-
SIUM
SEPTEMBER 11:
YANKEES VS. ANGELS GAME DAY
AT ANAHEIM STADIUM
WIN $25 TO LUCILLE’S BBQ
AAOS MEMBER NEWS
SPRING 2011 EDUCATION SYPMPOSIUM PHOTOS
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DONATIONS BENEFIT CHILDREN & FAMILIES OF JAPAN DISASTER
2
SENIOR HONORS BANQUET, CE EVENT, ANGELS’ GAME
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ARTICLE: ACUTE ANTERIOR UVEITIS—AN OVERVIEW
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AAOS BOARD MEMBERS’ MEOMORABLE PATIENTS
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MEMBER NEWS 9
Inside this issue:
April 2011
A P U B L I C A T I O N O F T H E A S I A N A M E R I C A N O P T O M E T R I C S O C I E T Y
E y e t o A A O S
Volume 3, Issue 2
Photos from Spring 2011 Educational Symposium
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Child Friendly Spaces. These super-vised and protective play spaces help to relieve anxiety and bring a sense of normalcy back into the lives of these children who have lost every-thing. The play areas also give par-ents much needed time that they can dedicate to finding food sources, work, accommodation and locating
other friends and family.
Donations to the Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund will exclusively be used to help pro-vide disaster relief and support for Japanese children. In addition to im-mediate relief, this fund will help sup-port long-term recovery plans to re-store education and child care in
Japanese communities ravaged by the
disasters.
To view Save the Children’s Japan
Earthquake photo slideshow, read
their exclusive, executive briefing
document on the earthquake and tsu-
nami or learn more about the organi-
zation, please go to their website at
www.savethechildren.org.
-Brenda Lien
Soon after collecting a total of $8,000 in donations from generous AAOS members at the 2011 Spring Educational Symposium, the AAOS board voted to forward the amount in full to Save the Children. This global humanitarian organization, which has been operating in Japan for 25 years, holds a reputation for its financial re-sponsibility and commitment to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in more than 120 countries
worldwide.
The work of this organization began within hours of the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan with Save the Chil-dren’s signature emergency response,
Charitable Donations Benefit Children and Families of Japan Disaster
Upcoming Events
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May 2011: Senior Honors Banquet & 2 Hours CE
Two free hours of continuing education will be provided by Brooke Messer, O.D.
1st hour: Management of Post Surgical Corneas with Gas Permeable Contact Lenses 2nd hour: Gas Permeable CL Fitting on Post Surgical Corneas: Video Grand Rounds
Registrations begins at 11:00 AM
The CE will begin promptly at 11:15 AM
~Food and drinks will be provided following the CE~
We will also recognize the 2011 recipients of the Dr. Arthur Sugino Memorial Award
Dr. William Yamamoto Memorial Award
July 31: AAOS Takao Shishino Education Symposium Sheraton Hotel, Cerritos
*located near Disneyland in the Anaheim Garden Walk
321 West Katella Avenue Anaheim, CA 92802
Phone: 714.535.9000 2 hrs free parking with validation
Sunday, May 15th at 11:00 AM
RSVP at aaosociety.org or email [email protected] by Wednesday, May 4th
This is a no-cost event for AAOS members
Sept 11: New York Yankees vs. Anaheim Angels Game Details TBA
AAOS Platinum Sponsors
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Acute Anterior Uveitis—an Overview by Pouya N. Dayani, M.D. RETINA VITREOUS ASSOCIATES|Pasadena, Torrance, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, No Hollywood, Santa Clarita|213.483.8810
Introduction Anterior uveitis (AU) is the most common form of uveitis with an annual incidence of 8 cases per 100,000 population.1 Although most cases of AU are effectively managed with topical medications, some patients may suffer significant vision loss from associated complications, such as glaucoma, macular edema, and cataracts. Moreover, many systemic disorders may be associated with and manifest as anterior segment inflammation. Anterior uveitis, therefore, deserves prompt and thor-ough ophthalmic and systemic evaluation.
Clinical Description Anterior uveitis includes iritis, anterior cyclitis, and iridocyclitis.2 The term “acute uveitis” should be used to describe a course of inflamma-tion characterized by a sudden onset and limited duration, such as HLA-B27-associated uveitis. The term “chronic uveitis” is used to describe persistent inflammation characterized by prompt relapse less than 3 months following discontinuation of therapy. Patients presenting with AU typically report pain, photophobia, tear-ing and ocular injection, although some patients may be relatively asymptomatic. The key indicators of disease on examination are the presence of cells and flare in the anterior chamber assessed by slit-lamp biomicroscopy. A 1 mm by 1 mm slit beam is used when assess-ing the anterior segment. The presence and characteristics of hy-popyon (such as height, fibrin content and mobility) should be noted. A hypopyon can be seen with a number of disease processes, but is most frequently associated with HLA-B27-associated uveitis, Behcet’s disease, infectious endophthalmitis, and certain systemic medications (such as rifabutin).3 Fibrin is a sign of aggressive disease and is typi-cally seen with HLA-B27-associated disease or endophthalmitis. Hy-phema is rarely seen, and typically resolves without permanent dam-age.4 Inflammatory cells can also aggregate and adhere to the corneal endothelium, forming keratic precipitates. Large, greasy keratic pre-cipitates are suggestive of granulomatous disease and may help nar-row the differential diagnosis. The most common causes of granuloma-tous inflammation include sarcoidosis, sympathetic ophthalmia, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, tuberculosis, syphilis, lens-induced uveitis, and multiple sclerosis-associated uveitis. Fine stellate keratic precipi-tates, on the other hand, are typically seen with herpetic uveitis and Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHIC). Band keratopathy is often found in younger patients with juvenile idio-pathic arthritis (JIA) and in older patients with chronic uveitis. Addi-tional exam findings may include ciliary flush, pupillary miosis, poste-rior or peripheral anterior synechiae, dilated iris vessels, cataracts, and macular edema. It is important to differentiate iris vessel dilation from iris neovascularization. In the former, iris vessels have a regular radial orientation and typically resolve once the inflammation is con-trolled. Iris atrophy or sectoral iris abnormalities may suggest a her-petic etiology, whereas iris heterochromia is suggestive of FHIC. Iris nodules are suggestive of a granulomatous process. The intraocular pressure (IOP) is typically low in uveitic eyes due to decreased aque-ous secretion by the ciliary epithelium. An elevated IOP, however, is often seen with herpetic uveitis, ocular toxoplasmosis, lens-induced inflammation, and Posner-Schlossman syndrome. Finally, uveitis in a quiet eye is commonly observed in JIA, FHIC and masquerade syn-dromes. A dilated fundus examination is necessary to assess for vitreous and posterior segment involvement. Optical coherence tomography can be helpful in detecting macular thickening or epiretinal membrane from chronic inflammation. Fluorescein angiography may show optic nerve or macular leakage, vascular staining, or other posterior segment find-ings that may further guide therapy.
Diagnostic Evaluation Although some patients may present with ocular signs and symptoms that are characteristic of certain dis-eases, most disorders are differentiated by their systemic characteristics. Even after a thorough medi-cal history and physical examination, up to 50% of patients are found to have idiopathic AU. The diag-nosis partly depends on the extent of the evaluation, and many cases initially diagnosed at idiopathic will later be attributed to a specific disorder. Masquer-ade syndromes, such as malignancy (leukemia, lymphoma), intraocular foreign body, pigment dispersion syndrome, and medication-related inflammation should be considered in patients that are very young or old, as autoimmune diseases are less common at these ages. There exists a lack of consensus with respect to the diagnostic evalua-tion of a patient presenting with a first episode of AU. Some suggest no evaluation at all, while others recommend an exhaustive laboratory evaluation. Most agree, however, that a complete and detailed medi-cal history and examination is necessary in creating a targeted evaluation. Age, gender, ocular symptoms and systemic findings can all be used to tailor the evaluation. In those in which the above does not suggest a specific disease process, some testing may be prudent. In patients with nongranulomatous disease, HLA-B27 analysis, fluores-cent treponemal antibody absorption test, complete blood count with differential, and urine analysis may be a “high-yield” initial work-up. For those with granulomatous disease, a chest x-ray, purified protein derivative test with anergy panel (or QuantiFERON-TB Gold test), and serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) are considered in addition to the above.
Treatment Most patients with anterior uveitis are adequately managed with topi-cal steroids. Prednisolone acetate 1% is the most commonly used agent. Cycloplegia is used in combination with anti-inflammatory agents to prevent posterior synechiae and to minimize the discomfort from ciliary muscle inflammation (we typically use scopolamine 0.25% twice daily). Initially, topical steroids are instilled frequently, as often as every hour in many cases, with a gradual taper depending on the response. In refractory cases or in patients with persistent macular thickening, periocular steroid injections or systemic corticosteroids may be considered. Patients presenting with severe bilateral disease or a chronic, recurrent disease course, especially those with non-infectious systemic associations, may benefit from systemic immunosuppressive therapy.
Conclusion Anterior uveitis can present with a spectrum of ocular findings and systemic associations. Although frequently idiopathic, a thorough sys-temic review and guided evaluation are important in the early diag-nosis of systemic disease associated with anterior segment inflamma-tion. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is essential in minimizing the secondary complications of ocular inflammation. With appropriate therapy and follow-up, most cases can be easily treated and patients may retain good visual function.
References
1. Wakefield D, Dunlop I, McCluskey PJ, Penny R. Uveitis: aetiology and disease associations
in an Australian population. Aust N Z J Ophthalmol 1986; 14:181-7. 2. Jabs DA, Nussenblatt RB, Rosenbaum JT> Standardization of uveitis nomenclature for
reporting clinical data. Results of the First International Workshop. AM J Op-thalmol 2005; 140:509-16.
3. Ramsay A, Lightman S. Hypopyon uveitis. Surv Opthalmolo 2001;46:1-18. 4. Fong DS, Raizman MB. Spontaneous hyphema associated with anterior uveitis. Br J Oph-
thalmol 1993; 77:635-8.
Greetings AAOS members! It was so won-
derful to see almost all of you at our
Spring CE. What a great group of doctors
we’ve got! Don’t forget to RSVP early for
our next event coming up this summer, the
May Honor’s Banquet.
My Memorable Patient Encounter:
A little girl, no older than 6 years old, came
in one afternoon with her mother after her teacher noticed that she was squinting a lot at school. A lengthy refraction revealed a sig-nificant amount of myopia. When I put a trial
frame on the little girl, she had that “wow!” look on her face. With a huge smile, she said to her mother, who was seated across the
room: “Mom! I can see you! And your hair too! I think it’s time to die your whites again.”
-Kristal Kawamoto
AAOS Board Members Share Memorable Patient Encounters
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Hello AAOS members!
Thanks again for all you who attended our Spring CE last month. We had an amazing turnout and it is because of all of our active members like you that make us such a great
society.
Our next upcoming event will be our May Honor’s banquet. On Sunday, May 15th, we will be hosting the event at McCormick and
Schmick’s restaurant in Anaheim at the Ana-heim Garden Walk. This is a great oppor-tunity for us to honor the hard working mem-bers of the Class of 2011 as they are about to join us as colleagues in our wonderful
profession. We will be honoring three graduating SCCO seniors with the Dr. Rodger T. Kame, the Dr. Arthur Sugino, and the Dr. William Yamamoto awards. We
will also have a panel of doctors practicing in different modes of optometry. This will be a great opportunity for the students to ask any questions they may have as they search for jobs upon graduating. I know
that the panel was very informative for my
class last year and I hope it will continue to be a great resource for networking for this
year’s graduating students as well.
This year, we will continue the tradition with 2 hours of FREE CE for all AAOS members,
provided by Dr. Brooke Messer. Following the FREE CE there will be a wonderful lunch
buffet including a free drink.
We would love to include all members in this
event, however space is limited so please sign up early. For more information please visit our website, www. aaosociety.org or email [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you at the next event
and Congratulations to the Class of 2011!
My story for “share a memorable patient encounter” is with an elderly couple that
came to our office. Their old optometrist had recently retired and they were looking for a new optometrist by visiting all offices on their VSP list. When I went out to speak to the couple, he and his wife told me they
had visited offices in Alhambra, Pasadena, Glendale, and Burbank as he pulled out his
folder and showed me they were on the 2nd page of their listings. The husband felt the
desire to explain to me his whole history of doctors at the front desk and then his wife leaned over and held out her hand and said “stop! You talk too much!” She then leaned over to me and said “If he does this during
his exam just make sure to cut him off.” I couldn’t stop smiling and knew they were going to be a fun couple. They scheduled their appointment that day. When returning for their exams, his wife chose to sit in the
exam room with him. After his subjective refraction he kept saying how clear he could finally see and when trial framing him, he looked over at his wife and says “Oh! You mean that’s what you look like…haha” The
whole time spent with them was filled with little jokes and other comments that I will always remember. It is patients like these that make me feel so fortunate to be in this
wonderful profession =)
-Jeff
Social Chair: Dr. Jeff Nishi
President Elect: Dr. Kristal Kawamoto
Administrative Assistant: Dr. Connie Liu
Hi AAOS members…
I hope everyone is having a great Spring!
It’s time for another newsletter, and I just
wanted to congratulate Brenda on doing
such a fabulous job with the newsletters. For
this blurb, she wanted us to relate our most
memorable patient encounter. My patient
encounter started when I saw a pre-teen girl
coming into the office scared that she was
losing her vision rapidly. She ended up
having a PSC which caused a dramatic de-
crease in vision over the past few months. A
year after the exam, her parents came in
for their exams and thanked me for taking
the time to alleviate their daughter’s fear. I
know the story is pretty cheesy, but it just
serves as a reminder that what we do
makes a difference in people’s lives!
-Connie
Trustee: Mark Sawamura
The patient told me that he threw away his last pair of glasses. I asked him why and if his glasses were broken. He said “no”. He threw them away because his
last optometrist said his prescription was only good for two years. So at two years, he dumped them. Kinda like a carton of milk, I guess. And then there
was the time I had to examine an infant, while he was breastfeeding.... -Mark
Hello AAOS members! My memorable patient encounter is when two teenage brothers came in for exams and couldn’t wait to ask a question that their biol-ogy teacher had told them: “Can I go blind from masturbating?” My answer was, “Uhhh….. I guess, if you have bad aim.” I later learned from a colleague that it can actually lead to a loss of blood flow to the optic nerve head and cause vision loss. At least when I
finally decide to go for my Academy fellow-ship, I have a topic for a poster. My favorite vacation spot is one that I won’t be going to until this summer, and I have a feeling it will be Bandon Dunes in Oregon. (It’s sup-posedly a mecca for golf.) -Shawn
Here is the updated treasurer’s report: Our current balance is $45,465.24. Available scholarship funds are as follows: SCCO $2,879 Berkeley Fund $3,307 Research Fund $3,153 RTK Foundation $1,225 AAOS Foundation $1,150 Total $11,714
Operating budget $33,751.24
AAOS Board Members Share Memorable Patient Encounters
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The Spring CE Seminar was a huge success! All members should be proud of the donations we collected for the relief efforts in Japan! Great job, everyone. Just because one of our main events has come and gone, it does not mean it’s too late to sign up for membership for 2011. Just email me at [email protected] if you have any ques-tions.
A “memorable patient encounter” has to be a
toric contact lens patient of mine. It was one of
those patients that already knew everything
and was skeptical about things from the very
beginning. It was my first time seeing this pa-
tient. Between phone calls (that she actually
answered) and text messages, I had deter-
mined that new toric lenses with a different
axis were needed. I told her it was worth
giving a try to improve her visual acuity. After
obtaining the trial lenses, I asked the patient to
take off her current lenses and place the new
trials in her eyes. With a roll of the eyes,
doubting that there would be any improve-
ment, and obvious reluctance, she made her
way to the sink to swap the lenses. I left the
room, letting the patient do what she needed
to do. A few minutes later, I returned to find
the patient sitting in the exam chair shaking
her head and muttering, “These are the worst
lenses I have ever tried. I can’t see anything,
everything is double”. My heart sank as I
measured much decreased vision in both eyes.
I thought to myself, “This can’t be right. Some-
thing is off. Did she switch the lenses or did I
place the lenses out for her incorrectly?” I
decided to have a look with the slit lamp.
That’s when things really made sense. The
patient had placed the trial lenses on top of
her other lenses…she was wearing two lenses
on each eye! After making the correction, the
lenses were found to be fitting well and vision
was great in both eyes. Needless to say, this
is an encounter I will never forget!
-Kenny
Treasurer: Dr. Shawn Yamamoto
Educational Chair: Dr. John Lee Hi everyone. Thank you all for making our spring CE a big success. Over 140 doctors attended 5 hours of CE featuring topics such as dry eye, glaucoma, and oculoplastics. During the CE, we were also able to raise $8000 towards the recovery efforts in Japan after the devastating earth-quake and tsunami. We were also able to raffle away two brand new iPad2s during the event. Looking forward, we have two events planned for the next few months. Please save the date for Sunday, May 15 for two hours of CE at McCormick and Schmick’s at the Gardenwalk
in Anaheim featuring contact lenses, specialty contact lenses, and corneal disorders by Dr. Brooke Messer. Also, please save the date for July 31 where we will be featuring another 5 hours of CE at the Sheraton Cerritos. I hope you will join us for these events. My most memorable patient encounter would have to be early in my residency— ages ago. I just happened to be in the ocular disease department when a patient walked in with a knife sticking out of his right eye. He had just been attacked on the street and walked into the first place he could find that could help him. Luck so happens to place the patient in
my hands. To make a long story short, the 9-inch knife had missed the eye completely and nicked the medial rectus. Thankfully, the pedi-atric ophthalmologist was on campus and we were able to schedule surgery the same day at a local hospital a few blocks away. An ambulance took us all to the hospital (not to scare anyone walking down the streets of New York) and the surgery was successful. I still have the x-ray of the knife in the orbit but I can’t find it anymore. One day, I’ll find it and share it with everyone. Thanks for listening. -John
Volume 3, Issue 2: Eye to AAOS
Membership Chair: Dr. Kenny Fukuda
Trustee: Greg Kame
I had a patient who told me he wanted to see better up close (he gestured by hold-ing his hand about 6 inches away from his face) so that he could see his partner/
lover in that "moment of passion". An-other memorable encounter was when the security guard at my office once asked me, "Hey Doc, can you prescribe me some
"weed" for my eyes? I think I have glau-coma." -Greg
2011 Membership Application Form (January 1, 2011—December 31, 2011)
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Gary Asano, OD, FAAO was presented with a COA Presidential Citation at the COA House of Delegates in Visalia on Feb. 5th 2011, for being the 2010 Chair of the Low Vision Rehabilitation Section. He will continue as Chair for the year 2011,
with the Vice Chair being AAOS member Carl Garbus, O.D., FAAO.
Quynh-Nhu Teresa Vu, OD (SCCO class of 2000) will be walking in the Susan G. Komen 3-day for the Cure in San Diego on November 18-20, 2011. Her goal is to raise $2,300 for participation in the event. If you wish to support Teresa with a donation, go to www.the3day.org then click on “donate to a participant” and type: Quynh-Nhu Teresa Vu.
Cindy W. Siu, OD, FAAO achieved Diplomate status in the Clinical Section on Cor-nea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies of the American Academy of Op-tometry at the San Francisco meeting in November, 2010.
Christina Ko, OD and her husband, James Ko, celebrated the new year by welcoming the arrival of their baby girl. Madison was born on January 2, 2011 and has been a wonderful blessing to the family.
Guess the AAOS Board Members’ Favorite Vacation Spots
Baby girl Madison Ko, born on January 2, 2011
1. Bandon Dunes, OR 2. Big Bear 3. Europe 4. Kauai 5. Lake Elsinore 6. Laughlin 7. Mammoth Lakes ATTENTION AAOS MEMBERS!
Go to page 11 and submit the 2011 Spring CE survey to AAOS
for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to
Lucille’s Smokehouse BBQ 1. Shawn Yamamoto 2. Jason Lam 3. Brenda Lien 4. Mark Sawamura 5. Jason Lam 6. Kenny
Fukuda 7. Mark Sawamura, Stacey Gin 8. Aaron Sako 9. Greg Kame 10. Kristal Kawamoto 11. Brenda Lien 12. Aaron Sako 13. John Lee 14. Connie Liu
8. Maui 9. my couch 10. Oahu 11. Seattle 12. Tahiti 13. Walt Disney World 14. Yosemite
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“The purpose of the Asian American Optometric
Society is to promote and maintain a social,
cultural, scientific, and educational interchange of
information and experiences between the members”
Asian American Optometric Society
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SOCI ETY
PRESIDENT:
Stacey Gin, O.D., FAAO
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PRESIDENT ELECT:
Kristal Kawamoto, O.D.
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SOCIAL CHAIR:
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