Beth Coleman of the Minnesota Optometric Association paid Uptown Eye Care a shock go to in late August. Our very personal Dr Mary Gregory was chosen because the 2019 Minnesota Optometrist of the Year! We have been all so stunned and excited for her to be acknowledged as an distinctive optometrist who practices on the forefront of expertise and innovation.

Dr Gregory is one among just a few optometrists in Minnesota that’s Board Certified in optometry. This implies that she has demonstrated a degree of data, ability and expertise that exceeds entry degree necessities and that she actively works to take care of her abilities to supply high quality eye care.

She has additionally invested a lot time and power to attain her Fellowship within the College of Vision Development (COVD) which has supplied her specialised coaching in pediatric optometry. Currently Dr Gregory is engaged on her fellowship in Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation, the place she is specializing in mind harm consciousness. She is a part of a community of suppliers attempting to boost the way in which we deal with sufferers affected by a mind harm or concussion.

Dr. Mary Gregory, O.D., FCOVD
Minnesota Optometrist of the Year

Dr Gregory has a ardour for educating members of our group about how imaginative and prescient impacts studying and studying. She usually devotes time to talking at native colleges, MOPS teams, house college co-ops and remedy teams on pediatric imaginative and prescient improvement. Both of her clinics, Omni Vision & Learning Center (proprietor) and Uptown Eye Care (co-owner), are dedicated to offering the very best quality training and care.

The standards for being chosen as Minnesota’s Optometrist of the Year contains not solely being an distinctive supplier but additionally for contributions to optometry at a state and nationwide degree. Dr Gregory has served the optometric group by sitting on the Minnesota Board of Optometry, chairing the Pediatric Committee and serving to to put in writing grants that promote pediatric optometry in Minnesota. She is presently on the nationwide InfantSEE board, working to advertise toddler eye exams throughout the US. In 2014 she was awarded the nationwide Dr David Sullin InfantSEE Award for her dedication to offering eye care to infants.

In 2016 all the Gregory household traveled to Panama to help in offering eye exams to under-served households there. They loved the expertise a lot that they’re headed to Belize in October of 2019 to serve households which have by no means had entry to eye care or glasses.

We are proud to have Dr Mary Gregory as a part of our household right here at Uptown Eye Care and are thrilled that her efforts to advertise eye care on a state, nationwide and worldwide degree has been acknowledged by being awarded the Minnesota Optometrist of the Year!