Tom Arnold, OD.
DALLAS—AEG Vision announced this week that Dr. Tom Arnold, an award-winning, nationally recognized optometrist, will retire from his role at AEG’s Memorial Eye Center group of eyecare offices and take on a new role with AEG as a regional vice president, corporate development. AEG acquired Dr. Arnold’s Sugar Land, Texas, practice in September 2019, as VMAIL reported, and it subsequently operated under the Memorial Eye Center banner along with about 20 other eyecare locations in the Houston area.

Dr. Arnold is a recognized international speaker and leading scleral contact lens expert. He was recognized as No. 5 in Newsweek’s 2021 America’s Best Eye Doctors report, and he has been in practice since 1984. Practicing at Memorial Eye Center in Sugar Land, Dr. Arnold has treated thousands of patients and multiple generations in the Houston area, the announcement noted.
 
AEG Vision, which is backed by Riata Capital, ranked No. 12 in the Vision Monday Top 50 Optical Retailers Report for 2021, and it now operates about 250 practice locations across 12 states.
 
“I am retiring from full-time optometry and I am entering a new chapter in my professional life,” Dr. Arnold said in the announcement. “I am filled with excitement, thankfulness and also a bit of sadness that I will no longer see my beloved patients every day. Serving my patients has been the honor of a lifetime.”
 
Dr. Arnold is one of the world’s foremost experts on scleral contact lenses. He is a Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society and an associate member of the International Society of Contact Lens Specialists. Dr. Arnold, along with Dr. Melissa Barnett, are co-chairs of the International Congress of Scleral Contacts (ICSC), the first meeting in the world dedicated solely to scleral contact lenses. They also host a monthly podcast, GlobalEyes, where they speak with practitioners from around the world.
 
A member of the Gas-Permeable Lens Institute Advisory Board, Dr. Tom Arnold is a contributing columnist to Contact Lens Spectrum and Jobson’s Review of Optometric Business.
 
In addition, Dr. Arnold has presented in Russia, Poland, India, Jordan, South Africa, Colombia, Mexico, Italy, the U.K., Australia and at major meetings in the U.S.