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Show Sponsor: CooperVision Check out Dr. Deloach: https://practicecompliancesolutions.com/about Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Audrey Nelson is the Chief Operations Officer of VisionQuest Eyecare in the Greater Indianapolis, Indiana community, where they have three locations.  She is responsible for day-to-day operations, and the management and direction of onsite office managers. She will help define and refine the processes within the practice.  She became COO in 2016 after 11 years in the eyecare industry.  Audrey is a native Indianan and attended Indiana University.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Drew, and their two sons, family and friends, watching sports and camping.  She is also wicked good at those basketball free throw games at those Dave and Busters like places.  (Yes, she crushed me at free throws.) Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Check out Michele: linkedin.com/in/michele-andrews-od-25254218 Check out Steve D: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-diamanti-04a17415/ Check out Steve R: linkedin.com/in/steve-rosinski-od-475450a7 Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management I had the opportunity to “catch” Dr. Jennifer Carter for the podcast today (you’ll see what I mean right at the beginning).  Jennifer is the owner of West Georgia Eye Care in Carrollton, GA.  She talks about the importance of honing the strengths of the team and investing most of your efforts into the top 20% of the team.  This sometimes “sucks” to do as it may not be always understood by all the team members, but the love she has for each member is the same amount regardless of the time she invests into them.  Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leave us a rating on your particular podcast player as it helps us to be found easier by listeners.

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Check out Drew's Podcast: https://bettereyecarenebraska.com/2021/01/26/doctors-of-optometry-a-gateway-for-health-care/ Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management Bobby serves as both the Associate Pastor and the Teaching Pastor at Sugar Hill Church. He has been on staff here since December, 2008 (where he started part-time in Student Ministry). Bobby’s passion comes from a love of seeing the light-bulb go on for folks. Whether it’s in a small group, a NEXT gathering, or during a weekend message, he loves seeing people “get it” and apply the truth to their lives. As one of our pastors here, Bobby helps individuals take the next steps in their faith, he helps the church fulfill its God-given mission, and he gives day-to-day direction to our Adult Ministries, Communications, and Finance teams. In his spare time, you can find Bobby riding his motorcycle, working out, reading, or eating gas station tacos. He and his wife, Laura, have been married since January, 2011, and they have a very “manly” 10lb cockapoo named Ollie. He would love to connect more, so find him on social media (@bobbymcgraw) or check out his blog at yourbetterstory.com.

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Check out Scott's Podcast: https://ocularsurfaceacademy.com/podcasts/  Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Dr. Paul Ajamian is one of the most generous, kind (in all the right ways) and passionate people I know.  From his zeal to be a lifelong learner to way he pours out himself into the profession of Optometry, he shows why he was an obvious choice to be one of those inducted to the Optometry Hall of Fame (2015).  I was there to see him get this honor.  The honor was almost as big for me to see it as for Paul to get it.  (No, his was way bigger.)   Paul has been a visionary of the Optometric profession, seeing the future of where Optometry could go in co-management of eye surgical treatment to the way we treat our guests medically.  And with modalities not conceived at the time.  Paul’s involvement has been instrumental in the way we now carry out our day-to-day care of guests, in ways most just take for granted.  By the end of this interview, you will see the hand he has played in how you do your day, and you will want to thank him personally.  For me, it is very personal.  Paul was my preceptor for my second externship.  But little did I realize that he was one of the first students, while at New England College of Optometry, to undergo such education himself.  Also, I did not realize he would play such an important role in my life from that moment on with his encouragement and example to lead.   Paul has received accolades such as the SECO 1995 Optometrist of the South, one of ten Optometric Magazine named as their 2000 Optometrists of the Decade, the American Optometric Association’s 2014 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award (the AOA’s highest honor for lifetime achievement) and the aforementioned National Optometry Hall of Fame induction in 2015.  He also stays busy within the profession serving currently as SECO International’s General Chair of the Education Committee, was President for the Georgia Optometric Association in 2000, served as the GOA Legislative and PAC chair for many years, and is a Founding Board Member for both the American Board of Optometry and the Optometric Glaucoma Society.  But perhaps the biggest contribution he has made is shepherding thousands of future doctors as externs and residents, just like I was in 1992, to become the best optometrists they could be and to encourage serving in our profession just like Paul.  Oh, and he still has time to earn a living as the Center Director for Omni Eye Services of Atlanta since 1984, after serving as the Education Director for the Vision Education Foundation (VEF-the nation’s first true co-management practice) beginning 1982.  In his spare time, he’s hammered out two textbooks and is the Review of Optometry’s “Clinical Quandaries” author and supervisor. I am blessed to have Paul serve as a boss (SECO CE Committee), mentor (Omni Eye Services of ATL, GOA, SECO) and dear friend.  Thank you, Paul. Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management

Show Sponsor: CooperVision Protect against and audits and learn the 2021 Updates with EyeCode Premier Billing and Coding Bundle at https://www.eyecodeeducation.com/bundles/eyecode-billing-and-coding-premiere-bundle-billing-coding-with-complete-case-management Check out Dante: https://www.californiaretina.com/about-us/physicians/dante-j-pieramici-m-d/  

Show Sponsor: CooperVision   I (Ted) first met Mike at a GOA meeting in Hilton Head, SC (GA seldom ever meets in GA for the summer meeting because our beaches are….subpar).  He was a 4th-year optometry student and I was barely out of school for a few years.  Fast forward a few years and our paths crossed again.  This time it was on a trip to Miami Beach for a Vision Source meeting when VS was still very small.  Fast forward even more years and Mike has had his practice catch on fire (both because it is awesome and because an electrical wire literally set the roof on fire), had an SUV go through the wall where his conference room in the office was, buy a lake house at Lake Martin AL (where he, I and the rest of the Lakehouse boys would convene yearly for lots of mischief and reflection), sell his practice to his partner, begin a career in industry with an EHR firm, leave that part of his life to go into teaching optometry students why private practice is the best way to practice optometry, start another private practice, and all the while maintain a great leadership organization LeadershipOD.com.  He has continued to be one of my best friends and one of the bravest people I know, because he is willing to reinvent himself to achieve higher levels of excellence in doing so.  If this episode doesn’t give you at least one good belly laugh, well go back and listen again for the great lessons instead.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my dear friend and idol, Mike Rothschild, a great American. (To my sixth grade English teacher, I apologize for the run-on sentence in the fifth sentence.)   To find out more about the LeadershipOD Executive Retreat click here:  https://www.leadershipod.com/retreat