CURRICULUM VITAE
January 1, 2012WALTER D. WEST, O.D., F.A.A.O. 1612 South Martha Court Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
(615) 838-3837
wwest@visionsource.com
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Colleges, Universities, Medical and other Professional Schools Attended:
Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971-1975, Graduated
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1971 1975 Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, 1969-1971
Awards
Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals 1998 – 1999
Postgraduate Medical and other Professional Training:
Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 1983 "Advanced Ocular Therapeutics"
International Association of Boards of Examiners In Optometry, 1987
Certification for Treatment and Management of
Ocular Disease, 1987
Affiliation with School/Hospital, Teaching/Research Experience: The Vision Care institute, LLC
Jacksonville, FL since 2004, Program Director Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, TN
Publication Positions:
Author, When Your Success Is On the Line, 2008 Author, Pulse Points of the Million-Dollar Practice, 2010 Chief Editor, Optometric Management
February 2002 to present
Contact Lens Management Editor, Optometric Management, 2000 - 2002
Experience in Medical Practice/Other Professional Experience
Vice President, Practice Development, Vision Source, LP
Program Director, The Vision Care Institute, Vistakon March 2004 to December 2011
Walt West Management and Consulting established 2003 Established Primary Eyecare Group, P.A. 1975
Private Practice of Optometry in 1975-2003
Membership in Professional Organizations:
Fellow, American Academy of Optometry Member, American Optometric Association Tennessee Optometric Association
Contact Lens Research Experience:
Lenses: Polycon II EW (RGPEW) 4/85-4/86 Polycon HDK (RGPEW) 5/86-12/86
Barnes Hind BIFOCAL 3/84-9/84 Ciba Deposit Resistance Study 9/88-present Sola Barnes Hind - Diffrax Bifocal
Bausch & Lomb Study: RD 102-65 EW 7/90-10/90
Ciba (Softcon EW) Frequent Replacement Program
Strieter Labs Contaclair Study 1/90-10/90 Bausch & Lomb Study: CM-0491 - 1991
Sherman Pharmaceuticals - DeStat3-Stay Wet3 6/91 SBH - CSI Toric 9/91
Paragon Optics RGP Bifocal Study 4/92-7/92 Allergan - CENZ-131-8646 8/93 - 3/94
Bausch & Lomb - RD-782 11/93
Sherman Pharmaceutical - Biofree 3/94
Vistakon Advisory Panel –Product development 1994 – Present Biomedics Clinical Evaluations - 1995 – Present
Vistakon Advisory Panel – Marketing 1994 – Present
Representative List of Articles in Pertinent Medical or Other Scientific Publications:
"Full Service Beats Low Cost", Optometric Management, November, 1985, p.69
"Make Every Minute Count", Optometric Management, February, 1987, p. 71
"Build A Promotion Network", Review of Optometry, April, 1987, p. 36
"Patient Selection with the Soft Perm Lens",
Contact Lens Clinical Review, October, 1991, p.15 "What Patients Really Want", Optometric Management April, 1992, p.71
1992
"Good Therapy For Dry Eye", EyeQuest Magazine, May/June, 1992, p.22
"What Matters To Patients", Optometric Management, August, 1992, p.75
"Say 'Yes' to Rx Release", Optometric Management, September, 1992, p.65
"How To Handle Hangups", Optometric Management, October, 1992, p.67
"Don't Follow The Fixed-Fee Formula", Optometric Management", November, 1992, p.63
"Keep RGP Wearers from Going Soft", Optometric Management", December, 1992, p.43
Professional lectures have been made on topics of Optometric Practice Management and Contact Lens to:
Syntex Ophthalmic Regional Managers, Phoenix, AZ, 1984 Practice Management Forum, Scottsdale, AZ, 1984
Louisiana Optometric Association, Baton Rouge, LA, 1984 Quest Practice Management Seminars, Dallas, TX, 1984 Washington State Optometric Association, Seattle, WA, 1985 SOLA Ophthalmics Practice Enhancement Seminar,
Atlanta, GA, 1985
Southwestern Optometric Association, Dallas, TX, 1985 Quest Practice Management Seminars, Houston, TX 1985 Southwest Contact Lens Council, San Antonio, TX, 1986 Heart of America Contact Lens Congress, Kansas City, MO, 1987
Leading Edge Seminars, Columbus, OH, 1986 Heart of America Contact Lens Congress,
Kansas City, MO, 1987
Ohio Ophthalmics Practice Enhancement Seminar, Atlanta, GA, 1987
SOLA Ophthalmics Practice Enhancement Seminar, Atlanta, GA, 1987
HMI Practice Enhancement Seminar, San Francisco, CA, 1988 Eye Care Practitioners of America, Raleigh-Durham, NC 1988 American College of Optometric Physicians,
Birmingham, AL 1988
Alabama Optometric Association, Birmingham, AL, 1988 New Jersey Optometric Association, Jamestown, NJ, 1988 Optifair, NY, NY, 1989
Washington Optometric Association, Pasco, WA, 1989 American College of Optometric Physicians,
Monterey, CA, 1989
Armed Forces Optometric Association, Atlanta, GA, 1990 Southwest Council of Optometry, Dallas, TX, 1990
Tennessee Optometric Association, Nashville, TN, 1990 Virginia Optometric Association, Virginia Beach, VA, 1990 West Florida Optometric Association, Pensacola, FL, 1990 Soft Perm Seminar, Raleigh, NC, 1990
North West Tennessee Optometric Association, Jackson, TN, 1990
Maine Optometric Association, Rockport, ME, 1990
International Contact Lens Professionals, Orlando, FL, 1990 Central Arkansas Optometric Society, Little Rock, AK, 1990 Association of Military Surgeons, Nashville, TN, 1990 New York State Optometric Association, Buffalo, NY, 1991 Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society,
Scottsdale, AZ, 1991
CRM Optical Upstate, Spokane, WA 1991 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1991
Southwest Council of Optometry, Dallas, TX, 1992
International Contact Lens Council, Atlantic City, NJ, 1992 University of Alabama School of Optometry, 1992
Summit Optics, Gainesville, FL, 1992
Texas Optometric Association, San Antonio, TX, 1992 EyeQuest, Chicago, IL, 1992
AOA Congress, Montreal, Canada, 1992 Contact '92, Anaheim, CA, 1992
Kings Island Contact Lens Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, 1992 Contact Lens Section, AOA, New Orleans, LA, 1992
Vision Expo West, Anaheim, CA, 1992
Big River Contact Lens Council, Paducah, KY, 1992 Insight Optical National Meeting,
Puerto Rico, 1992
American Optometric Association, St. Louis, MO, 1993
Broward Optometric Association, Ft Lauderdale, FL SECO, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993
Southwest Council of Optometry, Dallas, TX, 1993 Oklahoma Optometric Association Congress, Tulsa, OK, 1993
Arkansas Optometric Association, Hot Springs, AR, 1993
Tennessee Optometric Association, Memphis, TN, 1993
Tennessee Optometric Association, Memphis, TN, 1993
Michigan Optometric Association, Troy, MI, 1993 Mountain States Contact Lens Conference, Keystone, CO, 1993
Canadian Optometric Association, Winnepeg, Manitoba, 1993
South Florida Hillsborough Optometric Association, Tampa, FL, 1993
Vision West Seminar, Sacramento, CA, 1993 Vision Expo West, Anaheim, CA, 1993
Eye Exam 2000 National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1993
Ohio River Contact Lens Association, Kentucky Optometric Association, Owensboro, KY, 1993 PBH Sales Training Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, 1994
Heart of America, Kansas City, MO, 1994 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1994
Southern Council of Optometry SECO, Atlanta, GA, 1994
Gentle Touch Presentation, London, Ontario, 1994 Gentle Touch Presentation, Waterloo, Ontario, 1994
Gentle Touch Presentation, Toronto, Ontario, 1994 Gentle Touch Presentation, Phoenix, AZ, 9/1994
Pennsylvania Optometric Association, York, PA, 9/1994 AOA Contact Lens Section
Boston, MA, 9/1994
PBH Gentle Touch Presentation, Westchester, PA, 10/1994
Rhode Island Optometric Association, Punctal
Occlusion Lecture, Warrick, RI, 10/1994 Vision Expo West, Anaheim, CA 11/1994
PBH Diversified Ophthalmics Continuing Education meeting, 11/1994
EyeSys Technologies, Houston, TX 10/1994
Insight Optical Annual Meeting, Nassau, Bahamas, 12/1994 Bausch & Lomb Practice Management Lecture
American Optometric Student Association, Memphis, TN, 1/1995 North Virginia Optometric Association
Washington, DC 1/1995
Eyequest Conference, Chicago, IL, 5/1995 Eye Tech, New Orleans, LA, 6/1995
Dade County Optometric Association, Miami, FL 1995
AOA Contact Lens Section, Orlando, FL, 9/1995 Association of British Dispensing Opticians Stratford upon Avon, England, UK, 10/95 Southwest Council of Optometry, Dallas, TX 3/96
New England Council of Optometry, Boston, MA, 3/96 St. Louis Optometric Association, St. Louis, MO 4/96
Eye Tech, DuPage, IL, 4/96
Omni Eye Center, Chattanooga, TN, 4/96
Arkansas Optometric Association, Hot Springs, AR 4/96
Johns Hopkins University Medical Center Baltimore, MD 4/96
Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, TN 4/96 North Carolina Optometric Association
Myrtle Beach, SC 5/96
Birmingham Optometric Association Birmingham, AL 6/96
Minneapolis Optometric Society Minneapolis, Minnesota 9/96 Kentucky Optometric Association Lexington, Kentucky 9/28/96 Florida Optometric Association Miami, Florida 10/96
Birmingham Optometric Society Birmingham, Alabama 11/96 American Academy of Optometry Orlando, Florida 12/96
SECO
Atlanta, Georgia 2/97 SWCO
Dallas, Texas 3/97 Heart of America
Kansas City, Missouri 2/98 SECO
Atlanta, Georgia 2/98
California Optometric Association Sacramento, California 3/98
Optometry 2000
Capetown, South Africa 6/2000
Opifair East
New York, NY 3/2001
New Orleans Contact Lens Society Metairie, LA 4/2001
Optometry ’01
Birmingham, England 4/2001 ODMA
Sydney, Australia 7/2001
Montana Optometric Association Fairmont Hot Springs, MT 10/2001 EFCLIN Congress
Nice, France 11/2001 CLAO 2002
Anaheim, CA 01 / 02
Heart of America Contact Lens Congress Kansas City, MO 2/02
SECO
ProVision National Conference Brisbane, Australia 3/02 AOA
New Orleans, LA 06/02 Vision Expo West Las Vegas, NV 09/02 SECO Atlanta, GA 02/03 AOA San Diego, CA 06/03
American Academy of Optometry Dallas, TX 12/03
Southern Council of Optometry Atlanta, GA 02/04
OptoWest
Anaheim, CA 04/04
Midwest Vision Conference Chicago, IL 05/04
Instructional Audio and Video tapes for Contact Lens and Practice Management topics produced for:
SOLA Ophthalmics, "The Upgrade TEAR Pricing Technique" SOLA Ophthalmics, "Practice Management with the
SOLA XL Progressive"
Paragon Optical, "Prescribers Panel 9", 1991 Paragon Optical, "Prescribers Panel 15", 1991 Vistakon Patient Communications Series 1997 - 98
Marco Technologies Patient Communications Video 1998 Paragon Vision Sciences, “CRT Patient Communication Video” 2002
Optos, Practice Integration of the Optomap Retinal Examination, 2003
American Optometric Association Orlando, FL 6/2004
2005 The Vision Care Institute, Vistakon Faculty, 2004-2005, Sixteen two-day programs
2009 The Vision Care Institute, Vistakon, Program Director, 2004 to present , 30 three-day programs per year
2010 Vision Source Experience 2010, Vision Source, LP 14 presentations in the US and Canada
2011 Vision Source Experience 2011, Vision Source, LP 43 presentations in the US
