AOA Sections: What Can We Do For You?

As a student member of the AOA you are automatically given free membership in the Contact Lens and Cornea Section, Sports Vision Section, and Vision Rehabilitation Section.

The AOA Sections have a variety of benefits to help you through optometry school and beyond.  Sections provide you with the tools needed to incorporate a variety of optometric services into your future practice, helping you, the new OD, develop a diverse patient base while increasing your marketability.

Benefits include:

• Monthly CLCS e-newsletter

• Bi-monthly Cross-Sections Newsletter.

• Availability of resource materials and information.

• Involvement in committee activities.

• Eligibility for CLCS Optometry's Meeting® travel grants.

• SVS Sport Specific Guidebooks

• SVS Sports Vision University Education

• Opportunity for hands on experience at the annual SVS AAU Junior Olympics Vision Evaluation Program.

• VRS Online Resource Manual.

• VRS Online Brain Injury Manual (Coming Soon!)

For more information on these and other section benefits, visit: www.aoa.org/sections.xml

If you have any questions or new ideas for any of the sections, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Section Manager: Capucine Chatman-Williams- ccwilliams@aoa.org