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
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