He first joined the faculty at the Southern College of Optometry in 1987, holding clinical assignments in the Ocular Disease and Primary Care Clinics. His didactic assignments included anterior segment eye disease, trauma, and clinical urgencies and emergencies. Since returning to the SCO faculty in 2007 his clinical assignments include Adult Primary Care, Advanced Care and Ocular Disease and Contact Lens Services. Dr. Fuller currently serves as Interim Chief of Cornea & Contact Lens Services in The Eye Center.
Dr. Fuller has authored several publications in the profession’s most prestigious journals, lectured nationally in the area of ocular disease and participated in numerous FDA clinical trials developing contact lenses and solutions. He presently serves as a member of Alcon’s national speakers bureau lecturing on developments in silicone hydrogel materials.
He has served as Vice Chair of the Faculty, Ex-officio Representative to the Board of Trustees, Chair of the Curriculum Committee, President of the West Tennessee Optometric Society, Member of the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Optometric Association, Acting-chief of the Brannon-McCulloch Eye Clinic, Member of the Presidential-Faculty Relations Committee, Chair of the Advisory Board for Southern Eye Associates (a surgical referral practice) for 12 years and Assistant Chief Examiner for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), a member of the American Optometric Association (AOA), the Tennessee Optometric Association (TOA) and the West Tennessee Optometric Society (WTOS).
As a private practitioner, Dr. Fuller owned and operated one of the area’s most successful multi-site solo practices serving thousands of patients each year. The practice emphasized ocular disease and specialty contact lens care.