Susan Daniel, OD, started her primary care practice one year out of optometry school in 1992.

Hutto, Texas, 30 miles north of downtown Austin, is not a large town, which might be why there was no optometrist there when Sarah Johle, OD, was looking for a place to open her new office.

Rebecca Schoonover, OD, of Peckville, Pennsylvania, had both experience and support when she began practicing optometry.

Talk about being the right person at the right time and place. Kristin O’Brien, OD, of Denver, Colorado, in 2013 became the solo OD at a practice started by Mark Wahlmeier, OD, who has five Vision Source® practices in Kansas, and Seth Thibault, OD…

Tausha Barton, OD, and her husband moved back to their hometown of Hillsboro, Ohio, following her graduation from the Illinois College of Optometry and her residency specializing in ocular disease and low vision rehabilitation.

Kayla Gaddis, OD, wanted to open an optometry practice unlike anything the people of McKinney, Texas, had seen before.