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CE Requirements for 2026 Renewal
Optometrist licenses and legend drug certificates are required to be renewed by April 1, 2026. Click here for more information.
Indiana Optometric Association Announces 2025 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
Update on Anthem recoupment letters
Reserve your room for the IOA Convention, April 25-26, 2025, at the Embassy Suites Noblesville!
Reporting illegal contact lens sales
Reserve your room for Fall Seminar!
Registration for the Fall Seminar is coming soon! Click here to reserve your room at the IMU Biddle Hotel or call 800-209-8145. Use the group code (not the promotion code) INOPT24.
Indiana Optometry's 2024 Corporate Sponsors
Thank you to the companies who support Indiana Optometry in 2024 with an annual corporate sponsorship!
Solar Eclipse and Eye Safety Resources
Indiana Optometric Association Announces 2024 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
The Indiana Optometric Association (IOA) announced its 2024 award winners April 19, 2024, at Indiana Optometry’s Meeting, the IOA’s 127th annual convention.
Have you renewed your 2024 IOA membership?
The IOA is pleased to announce that there is NO DUES INCREASE in 2024! Questions? Email dues@ioa.org or call 317-237-3560.
Interested in ordering eclipse glasses for your patients?
Reserve your room for Embassy Suites Noblesville and Convention 2024!
Join the IOA for Indiana Optometry's Meeting on April 19-20, 2024! Click the link above to book your room or call 317-674-9043. Group code: IOA
How to Safely View the October 14, 2023, Annular Eclipse
2011 ROEC Study Concerning Optometry in Indiana
The Regulated Occupations Evaluation Committee (ROEC) was created by the Indiana General Assembly pursuant to IC 25-1-16. The Committee was charged with the responsibility to review and evaluate professions regulated by the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency at least once every seven years. Additionally, the Committee is to make recommendations after their review and evaluation. Read a copy of the 2011 Regulated Occupations Recommendations Report.
IOA receives top AOA membership award
2010 Indiana Optometry Workforce Study
IOA receives top AOA membership award
The IOA was formally recognized as a top performing affiliate for membership market share growth on Friday, June 23, 2023, during the AOA House of Delegates meeting. "This honor displays the significant hard work, endurance, and success that your Association has achieved over the past several years to meet the many needs of existing members all the while recruiting more optometrists into the folds and great understanding of organized optometry. This is an amazing performance and will be ce...
Scam Alert
Criminals are using the IOA name and phone number to contact members and inform them that their license is suspended and the FBI is involved. This is a scam. Please do not give out any personal information over the phone. For more about ID spoofing, please visit the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) website here: https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing
The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (IPLA) maintains optometric licensing information. You can check your license status at any time at th...
Zieba receives 2023 AOA Virgil Deering Executive Director of the Year Award
Indiana Optometry announces Tabitha Arnett as new executive director
IOA Announces 2023 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
Indiana Optometry's 2023 Corporate Sponsors
Thank you to these IOA sponsors who provide annual support to the Association for the calendar year. Click on a logo for more information about these companies and their products or services.
Travel grant deadline extended to March 31 for AOA Optometry's Meeting
ODs who graduated between 2018 and 2022 are eligible to receive an AOA+ travel grant to ease the cost of attending and traveling to Washington, D.C., for Optometry’s Meeting, June 21-24. Click for info.
Alert: DEA Scam Calls
Doctors should know that the DEA will never contact by telephone to demand payment; will never request personal or sensitive information by phone; and will only notify by official letter. Click for more info.
Governor fills vacancy on Indiana Optometry Board
Reserve your room for French Lick and Convention 2023!
Join the IOA for Indiana Optometry's Meeting on April 28-30, 2023, at French Lick Springs Hotel! Click above to book your room or call 1-888-936-9360 and use group code 0423OPT.
Know Your COVID-19 Community Level
The CDC uses COVID-19 Community Levels to determine the disease’s impact on counties and recommend prevention measures with data updated weekly.
Finding COVID-19 Treatments and Medications
For people who are more likely to get very sick from COVID-19 infection, medications are available that can reduce your chances of severe illness and death. Other medications can help reduce symptoms.
IOA Announces 2022 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
The Indiana Optometric Association (IOA) announced its 2022 award winners in April at the IOA’s annual convention celebrating the IOA's 125th anniversary. And the winners are...
COVID-19 Self-testing information from the CDC
CDC Health Advisory on Omicron
Updated CDC recommendations to enhance protection for healthcare personnel, patients, and visitors, and ensure
adequate staffing in healthcare facilities due to increased transmissibility of the Omicron variant.
Information posted by OSHA regarding the withdrawal of the ETS mandate on vaccinations
Guidance from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws
HIPAA Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccinations and the Workplace
HHS issued guidance to help the public understand when the HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to disclosures and requests for information about whether a person has received a COVID-19 vaccine.
ISDH Guidance for Third Dose of Vaccine
Read the updated recommendation for an additional dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in moderately to severely immunocompromised people.
Updated CDC Guidance for Fully Vaccinated People
Given new evidence on the Delta variant circulating in the US, the CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people wear masks in indoor public settings.
ISDH information on Delta variant and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
New OSHA Guidance and FAQs for ODs
Gov. Holcomb extends COVID-19 Emergency Executive Order through June 30
IOA Announces 2021 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
The IOA announced its 2021 award winners in April at the IOA’s annual convention. The Optometrist of the Year is Dr. Richard Schamerloh, Bluffton, Indiana, and the President’s Citation - Young Optometrist of the Year is Dr. Cameron Norman, Frankfort, IN.
** SCAM ALERT **
Criminals are using the names, logos, and other information from the IOA, Indiana Optometry Board, and US Dept. of Justice to illegally extort money from Optometrists. The criminals are contacting ODs and telling them that their license has been suspended because someone is using their license and prescribing numbers to illicitly sell drugs. They then request payment in the form of gift cards.