Nomination period for the 2018 Annual Meeting has ended.

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Past Recipients Special Service Award 2011 - Mr. & Mrs. Harry Wayne   Distinguished Service Award 2018 - Selwyn Super, OD & Allen Cohen, OD 2014 - Andrea P. Thau, OD 2013 - Robert Sanet, OD & Linda Sanet, COVT 2012 - Mtn. States Congress of Optometry 2011 - Paul Freeman, OD 2010 - Stephen Chase, PhD 2009 - Leonard Press, OD

Dr. Selwyn Super (left) and Dr. Barry Tannen

About this Award

Nominees will be evaluated for long or lifetime achievement in two principal areas:

1. Service to Optometry

Contributions of personal effort and time on behalf of the profession’s advancement in such areas as:

• leadership roles within the profession organized optometry at national, state and local levels

• continuing education, as a writer and/or lecturer

• education, as a teacher or administrator

• legislation furthering the advancement of optometry research

2. Special Service

Involvement, on behalf of the profession of optometry, in such areas as:

• interprofessional health care organizations, committees, boards or groups

• interprofessional organizations, committees, boards or groups outside the health care area

• international health care or other organizations, committees, boards or groups

• standards, as representative of optometry with standards organizations and committees

• public health, in a leadership role the

• military, in a health care leadership role