While optometry school was a last-minute decision for her, Dr. Julie Rodman knows it was the best decision she ever made. During her residency at the VA, she discovered her passion for working with students and watching them grow. Today, as a professor at Nova Southeastern University, she teaches the retina course and serves as the Chief of the Broward Eye Care Institute, exposing her students to a wide variety of pathologies in the real world. She also spent several years as the residency education coordinator and now runs a resident case report contest for the Optometric Retina Society. Her early introduction to OCT supercharged her passion for retina, so much so that she wrote a book about OCT-Angiography in 2019. Currently, she is working on two studies focused on geographic atrophy and diabetic retinopathy. 

Key Moments:

1:37 Dr. Julie Rodman’s path to optometry

3:38 From residency to academia

4:57 Teaching retina and running the clinic

6:55 The ‘sexiness’ of retina

9:30 Dr. Rodman’s research in retina

11:05 Why she loves optometry

13:59 A shout out to the power of OCT-A

18:38 The role of optometry

21:52 Residency programs

25:28 Dr. Allen’s learnings from his own residency

30:10 Dr. Rodman’s two current studies in geographic atrophy and diabetic retinopathy

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