By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, November 1, 2019 11:25 AM
Jennifer Wademan’s Instagram page is a carefully curated platform that is indicative of its purpose—to be a creative, yet educational and an informative outlet. While it mostly showcases Wademan’s life as an optometrist, the page also features glances into her private life as a mother and a wife. Dr. Wademan is a bonafide veteran of the optometry field, with 11 years of professional experience.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, October 25, 2019 10:05 AM
October is one of the best months of the year because it marks the official transition from summer into fall. The leaves have turned, the weather has gotten chillier and pumpkin spice lattes are once again all the rave—like clockwork. October also marks the beginning of the festive season, giving us the first opportunity to dress up with Halloween.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, October 18, 2019 8:00 AM
For Dr. Jenine Esmail, patient education is often lacking in the people she interacts with. Often times, when people come into her exam room, they lack basic information about their eyes. For this reason, she has dedicated her Instagram page,
DrJenineEsmail, to filling in those blanks. “One thing that I notice with most of my patients is that they have never actually received proper patient education, which is something I spend time on with each patient during their exam. The more they understand, the more we can prevent diseases and treat them correctly,” she told
VMail Weekend.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, October 11, 2019 9:49 AM
Caitlyn Mefford, OD, may still be a rookie in the optometry field, but she is no novice when it comes to social media. A recent graduate of NSU Oklahoma College of Optometry, Mefford has only been practicing since August, but she’s been running her Instagram page since 2012, when the social media platform was still starting out as well. Today, the savvy millennial doctor is boasting close to 2,000 followers on the page,
DrCaitlynMefford, and is using it as a way to showcase her day-to-day life as a new doctor and lover of life in general.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Thursday, October 3, 2019 3:43 PM
To say that doctors are busy is an understatement. Between seeing patients, running a business, and also managing a life outside of work, their schedules can be hectic. For Rachael Wruble, however, a busy schedule is just par for the course. A native of Bad Axe, MI, Wruble is co-owner of three practices in the Charlotte, NC area—one of which she runs with her husband whom she’s been married to for nine years. As if that wasn’t enough, Wruble and her husband share two toddlers—both under five. In-between all that she has managed to create a strong presence on social media with
Dr.EyeGotThis, an Instagram page she rebranded from personal to professional in February this year.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, September 27, 2019 11:14 AM
Vision Expo West is just a week behind us, and before the next one creeps up on us again, let’s reflect on this one, one more time. This year as in years past, show attendees were active on Instagram, documenting their time at the Venetian and thanks to their robust feeds, almost everything from this year’s show is online. While the formal aspects of Expo showed up on social media—educational courses, buying sessions, and product launches—the event once again proved itself to be a place for ECPs and their colleagues to conduct business, reconvene or let loose. Here are some eye-catching shots captured by ECPs who attended.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, September 13, 2019 8:00 AM
ASHEVILLE, N.C.—While Instagram can be a great source for fostering relationships, the platform is a double-edged sword because it opens up your life to the opinions of the world. If people only know you from your page, the assumption is that your day-to-day life is exactly as it is online. While this concept can be a bit daunting, causing many to withdraw from social media or curate their content finely, for Haley Perry OD, it is the thing that motivates her. Her Instagram page,
Haley A Perry OD, chronicles her very busy life as a business owner of elite Eye care in Asheville, N.C., and working mother. When it comes to the concept of “balancing it all” Perry is not shy in admitting there is no such thing. Instead, it’s about prioritizing and figuring out which task needs her attention the most.
By By Stephanie Sengwe
Thursday, September 5, 2019 8:00 AM
For Gabriela Olivares, life as an optometrist is not just about your job. The South Florida native promotes eye health on her page as well as overall wellness. While she encourages the general public to get their eyes checked, her Instagram page,
LivingIn2020, is targeted toward her peers—engaging them in conditions she runs into in her practice and urging them to prioritize their own health as much as they prioritize their patients’. Livingin2020 was created in February 2017, in an effort to educate patients and also inspire other health care professionals to live what she calls a 20/20 lifestyle—a well-balanced life that incorporates work, regular exercise and healthy eating habits.
By Stephanie Sengwe, Contributing Editor
Friday, August 30, 2019 8:00 AM
TORONTO, Ontario—Going to the doctor’s office can be quite daunting to some. The experience can be impersonal, with practitioners who are matter of fact and impersonable. And let’s face it, the whole thing can culminate into a dire diagnosis. Shalu Pal and her team at Dr. Shalu Pal & Associates in Yorkville, Toronto, are aware of this and have made it a mission to give you major FOMO through their Instagram page, helmed by Pal herself. The page is a fun outlet for the practice, intended to lure you and curb your reservations about doctors and the often harrowing experience of being in an examination room.
By Stephanie Sengwe, Contributing Editor
Thursday, August 8, 2019 9:00 AM
Dr. Maryann Youssef may be a novice to the social media game but judging by her page, she’s got the formula figured out. A graduate of the Western University of Health Sciences, this Florida native created
Doctor.Maryann eight months ago in an effort to connect with patients outside the exam room. Since then, the page has garnered over 1,000 followers and counting. “I started my Instagram page as a way to share my passion with patients outside of the exam room,” she explained. “At least once a day, I have a patient say, ‘Wow, I never knew you could check all of that in an eye exam!’ Optometry is undervalued, and that is in part due to the lack of education we provide to our patients. I'm trying to do my small part in changing that.”
By Stephanie Sengwe, Contributing Editor
Friday, August 2, 2019 9:00 AM
Audrey Raley, OD, created her Instagram page,
Doc_Raley_OD in May of last year as a way to let her friends and family follow her journey into entrepreneurship with the opening of her own practice,
Refined Eye Care. Almost a year later, Dr. Raley opened the doors of Refined Eyecare to her patients and as her practice has gotten on its feet, so has her presence on social media. “I created my IG page as an announcement of the decision I made to open cold,” she stated.
By Stephanie Sengwe, Contributing Editor
Thursday, July 25, 2019 10:00 AM
Elena Pryadkina’s Instagram page,
EyeAmElena is as colorful as her sense of fashion and it is clear for anyone who stops by the page that she is quite the fashionista. A second-year optician student at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia, she converted EyeAmElena from a personal page to a more optical focused page in order to show her passion for eyewear. Pryadkina found herself falling in love with the profession in 2016 when she took a job as an office administrator in a local independent optical store. “I had never enjoyed working until I started working there and that’s how I knew opticianry was a good career to pursue.”
By Stephanie Sengwe
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:45 PM
Rob Kloepfer, OD’s Instagram page,
EyeDrKloepfer, currently stands at 2,627 followers and it won’t be too long before he hits the 3,000 mark. The page, which features images taken by holding his camera up the slit lamp oculars, is a hub for eye conditions that even those who work within the industry and aren’t ECPs haven’t heard of.
By Stephanie Sengwe
Friday, June 28, 2019 2:26 PM
CHICAGO—When Tyler Mathenia got his first pair of contact lenses while in middle school, he knew immediately that he wanted to be an optometrist. His then doctor always reminded him that no other medical profession offered its patients instant results the way optometry did and from then on, the seed was planted.