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Dr. David A. Damari is an Associate Professor at Southern College of Optometry and the Chair of the Department of Assessment, responsible for institutional review, measures of academic outcomes, and quality assurance in the curriculum. He is a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) and of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), and a faculty associate of the Optometric Extension Program Foundation. He completed the fellow-in-residence program at the National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO). He has served on several committees within the NBEO, including the Part I Re-engineering Committee, the Examination Restructuring Committee (2002-3) that developed the forth-coming new structure of the examination, the Psychology/Perceptual Conditions sub-committee, the Patient Assessment & Management (PAM) Authoring Committee, and the Part II Exam Council. He was an invited item author for the new Applied Basic Science section of the restructured NBEO. He teaches or has taught optometric theory and methods, vision therapy, pediatric optometry, neurological eye disease, strabismus and amblyopia courses at SCO. He still sees patients at least one half day a week at the Eye Center. |
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Dr. Kelley Dasinger received her Doctorate of Optometry degree from The University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. She completed a Residency in Pediatric Optometry and Vision Therapy at Southern College of Optometry in 2011. She is currently an Instructor at Southern College of Optometry. |
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Dr. Janette Dumas is an Assistant Professor at Southern College of Optometry. She provides patient care as an attending optometrist at The Eye Center in Pediatric Primary Care and Vision Therapy. In the didactic setting, she teaches Optometry Theory and Methods IV and involved with laboratories in pediatrics, vision therapy, strabismus, and amblyopia. Dr. Dumas earned her Doctor of Optometry degree in 2003 at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. She then completed the Pediatric Residency at Southern College of Optometry. She has served as an investigator on multi-center research studies on amblyopia and on the correction of hyperopia in children. |
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Dr. Tressa Eubank, O.D., F.A.A.O., Professor, served as Chief of Low Vision Rehabilitation Services at The Eye Center of Southern College of Optometry from 1993 through 2006. A 1974 graduate of Indiana University's School of Optometry, Dr. Eubank has been with SCO since 1988. She had fifteen years of prior experience in private practice, including ten years as adjunct professor and clinical consultant at Western Michigan University. She holds Optometric licensure in the states of Tennessee and Mississippi. |
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Dr. Paul A. Harris is a 1979 graduate of the State University of New York, State College of Optometry. He was in private practice in Baltimore, MD until joining SCO's faculty in September of 2010. His accreditations include Fellowships in the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (1984), the Australasian College of Behavioral Optometry (1993), and the American Academy of Optometry (1999). He has published two series for the Optometric Extension Program Foundation (OEPF), an organization that he currently serves as Vice President and a Clinical Curriculum Instructor. |
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Dr. Pamela Schnell is an Assistant Professor at SCO. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) and a member of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD). After completing her residency, she became a faculty member at the State University of New York College of Optometry, where she taught courses and supervised interns in the Pediatric and Infant Vision Clinics. She held clinical privileges at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, where she supervised externs and residents in the outpatient, inpatient, and emergency departments. |
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Dr. Allen Schoen did his undergraduate work at The University of Maryland, and in 1972 received his Doctor of Optometry degree from The Southern College of Optometry. He later earned a Masters of Education in Special Education from Memphis State University. |
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Dr. Daniel E. Smith received his Doctor of Optometry degree from Southern College of Optometry in 1994. He completed the Residency in Pediatric Optometry at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he continued to serve on the optometric staff until June of 2008. In addition to his position at Children's Mercy, Dr. Smith also practiced in a private office in Lawrence, Kansas. Past teaching appointments included serving as a clinical instructor at the Kansas University Medical Center from 1994-1996, and as an adjunct clinical preceptor for both Southern College of Optometry and University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry. Dr. Smith is currently an Assistant Professor at Southern College of Optometry and serves as Chief of Pediatric Primary Care. |
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Dr. Glen Steele is a professor at the Southern College of Optometry in the Pediatric Service with special emphasis on the vision care needs of the infant and young child. A past president of both the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and the Optometric Extension Program Foundation, he is currently chair of the American Optometric Association's InfantSEE® Committee. Dr. Steele has lectured extensively throughout the USA and internationally in the area of infant vision development and care. |
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Dr. James E. Venable, a magna cum laude graduate of East Tennessee State University ('85), attended optometry school at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, where he earned the Doctor of Optometry degree. He received intern training at the James H Quillen College of Medicine & V.A. Hospital and the Chattanooga Vision & Perception Center. Since entering practice, Dr. Venable has served as Director of Special Services, Director of Referral Services and Clinical Director for group private practices and referral centers while concentrating his clinical practice in pediatrics and binocular vision, laser vision correction and glaucoma. He has also been active in intern and resident programs having held adjunct faculty status at Southern College of Optometry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry and the University of Houston College of Optometry. Currently Dr. Venable serves as the Vice President of Clinical Programs at Southern College of Optometry. |