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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. Janette Dumas is an Assistant Professor at Southern College of Optometry. She provides patient care as an attending optometrist at The Eye Center and also teaches laboratories in vision therapy and anterior segment diagnosis and management. She has also given invited lectures in vision therapy, contact lenses, and anterior segment management. |
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Dr. Tressa Eubank, 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, and has received privileging at two local hospital-based rehabilitation centers. |
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Dr. Al Fors earned his B.S. and Doctor of Optometry degree from Southern College of Optometry (1969) in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Fors completed the E.B. Alexander Fellowship at Gesell Institute of Child Development (1971) in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) and is an associate of the Optometric Extension Program Foundation (OEP). |
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Dr. W. C. Maples earned his B.S. (Geography & Chemistry) in 1964 from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He earned his Doctor of Optometry degree from the Southern College of Optometry (1968). Dr. Maples practiced in south Mississippi for 12 years, specializing in children's vision and vision therapy. In 1979 he earned a M.S. degree in Community Health Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. |
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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. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. |
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Dr. Glen Steele is a Professor and Chief of the Pediatric Service at The Eye Center at Southern College of Optometry. He also has a private practice emphasizing the eye and vision care needs of the infant and child. Dr. Steele is a past president of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) and a past president of the Optometric Extension Program Foundation. He is currently a member of the American Optometric Association Infant Vision Committee. He has lectured extensively throughout the USA and internationally in the area of infant vision development and care. |
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Dr. Scott Steinman has over 20 years of experience as an educator, researcher, clinician and educational software developer. He received his Doctor of Optometry degree from the State University of New York College of Optometry in 1981, where he graduated with honors. His Ph.D. in Physiological Optics (Vision Science) was completed at the University of Houston in 1989, and his post-doctoral studies were conducted at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. |
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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 Chief of Staff of The Eye Center at Southern College of Optometry. |