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AAOF Announces 2020 Johnson & Johnson Vision Residency Award Recipients

Friday, August 28 2020 | 07 h 18 min | News

The American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2020 Johnson & Johnson Vision Residency Awards.

These residency awards support post-graduate advanced training in optometric clinical care, education, and research methods specific to the fields of children’s vision and contact lenses. The 2020 residents were chosen by peer review members from the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) Section on Cornea, Contact Lenses & Refractive Technologies, and the Binocular Vision, Perception and Pediatric Optometry Section. Each recipient will receive $2,000 toward their graduate education.

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