EYECARE: Optical on Main Street Women In Optometry: OD Tackles Inspection Hurdles and COVID Delays to Open Private Practice By Staff Wednesday, March 16, 2022 2:18 PM Celesta Ferreira, OD, was raised by hardworking, entrepreneurial parents, who taught her at a young age about management quirks and realities. Not surprisingly, her end goal was to own her own business, and that idea only grew as she attained her optometry degree. A native Texan and family-oriented person, she had a few items on her location checklist. First, the spot had to be up-and-coming with promised growth opportunities. “The practice should be located in a place where people of all ages and multi-generational families resided—a neighborhood that was primarily occupied by schools and residential areas,” she says. Read More