Name:
Glen T. Steele, O.D. FCOVD
Birthplace: Dickson, Tennessee
Present Position:
Professor, Chief of Pediatric Service
Southern College of Optometry - Initial Appointment -1969
1245 Madison Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38104
(901) 722-3284
Private Practice of Optometry
Emphasizing the Eye and Vision Care Needs of the Child
1658 Appling Road Suite 101
Cordova, Tennessee 38016
(901) 379-2021
Education:
High School - Charlotte High
School
Charlotte, Tennessee 37036
College - Martin College
Pulaski, Tennessee
AA Degree (1964)
Professional- Southern College of Optometry
1245 Madison Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38104
BS, O.D. (1969)
Research Fellow- Gesell Institute of Child Development
New Haven, Connecticut
OPTOMETRIC ACTIVITIES
Memberships:
West Tennessee Optometric Society -1971-present (vp-1976-77)
(education committee 1987)
Tennessee Optometric Association
- committee of Vision Training and Vision Development - 1977-1982,
Chairman,
1979, 1980, 1982;
Task Force on Pre-school Screening, Chairman, 1983;
Committee on Optometric
Specialties-1983-86, Chairman,
1983-1984, Leadership Development Committee,
1995-96, Managed Care
Committee,
1996-97, co-chair- TN Special Olympics Vision Screening (1998),
chair Operation Bright Start Task Force (1999-2000), OD of the year
1999, Nominating Committee-2000
Nominating Committee-2000
Awards Committee – 2000-2004 chair 2004
American Optometric Association -
Future of Vision Development/Performance Task Force 1986-88;
Committee on Pediatrics, Binocular Vision and
Perception 1988-97,
Chair, 93-97; Vision Therapy Work Group,
interim chair, 1997-98,
Member, Pediatric
and Binocular Vision Committee (1998- present),
member-Operation
Bright Start Project
Team (1998-99), member, Poster subcommittee -2000-2002;
Chair,
Children’s and
Binocular Vision Topical Interest Group – 2000-present; Infant
Vision Project Team,
2002-present; InfantSEE Management Team 2004-present, Infant Vision Committee
2005-present
Infant and Children’s Vision Coalition – represent OEP in the
coalition
Optometric Extension Program Foundation-SCO faculty liaison,
1979-1984;
Curriculum Development
Committee for CURRICULUM 2000, 1993-94;
Southeast
Optometric Vision Forum-Program Chairman-1985;
Assistant General
Chairman-1986,
General Chairman-1987-88; Member OEP/COVD Joint Task Force,
1995-present;
Board of Trustees-1991-1995, Secretary/Treasurer-1995-97,
Vice-President 1997-99,
President-1999 - 2003, co-chair OEPF/COVD Vision Therapy Practice
Management
Symposium 1998-99
College of Optometrists in Vision Development,
Fellow,1976-present, Tennessee
State Director-1981-1984;
Committee to Assist Graduates-1979-1983,
Chairman, 1980-1983; Liaison to Students(SCO)-1978-present;
Southeast Regional
Director-1984-87;
Director, Department of Education; 1984-85; Director, Department of
Administration-1985-87; President-Elect 1987-88, President 1988-89, Immediate Past
President-1989-1990;
Chair, Exam Board Review Committee, 1991-94; Chair, Press
Response
Committee, 1990-93; Chair-Uniform Law
Task Force, 1997-2001
Southern Educational Congress of Optometry International (SECO)
Continuing
Education Committee - 1998- present
Developed
the Pediatric and Infant Management Tracks – 98-present
Developed CE
program that included President Jimmy Carter 2004
Developed CE
program entitled – Managing Your Patients throughout Their Life
Cycles - 2005
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
s.a. NOEL Center-Advisory Clinical Associate-1980-88
American Academy for Human Development-editorial board,
Developmentalist, the
Journal of AAHD-1982-85
Memphis Association for Children with Learning Disabilities-member,
Professional
Advisory Board-1980-84
Member - Optometric Educators in Binocular Vision, Perception and
Vision
Development - 1988-present
Board of Directors-Concord Academy, school for learning disabled
adolescents-84-87
Vision Consultant-Rhodes College baseball team-1985-86
Vision Consultant-Memphis Academy for Learning Disabilities-1982-86
Joint Conference on Theoretical and Clinical Optometry, Co-Chair,
Pacific University
and OEPF, Forest Grove
Oregon-1993-present
AOA-ASCO Curriculum Conference on Research, Birmingham, AL, 1993
Consultant-American Foundation for Vision Awareness-Chaired
committee to write
pamphlet on children’s vision
examination - 1994
Invitational Conference of Clinical Vision Care, Conference co-chair
1995-99
AOA representative for interview with 18 radio stations and networks
regarding “Back
to School Vision
Examinations”-1996
TOA Leadership Development Conference - 1996
Consultant for local Red Cross volunteers in developing screening
guidelines and
performing workshops for their
vision screenings - 1997
Southern Educational Congress of Optometry Education Committee (SECO)
- 1998-present - developed the
Pediatric Management Track
Tennessee Special Olympics - Opening Eyes Project - 1998, 1999
American Foundation for Vision Awareness - Nominating Committee –
1999
National Advisory Board – Operation Bright Start –1999-present
Lecturer for AOA’s Children’s Vision Project - 2003
AOA National Radio Tour – 2003
AOA contact person on Infant and Children’s Vision
Rural Health
Association of Tennessee – Awards Committee - 2004
PRACTICE EMPHASIS
The eye and vision care needs of the child including Children's
Vision-Vision Therapy-Vision Development -
Owner, Pediatric Vision Associates of
Memphis-Affiliated with the
Memphis Family Vision Practice, Memphis,
Tennessee - TPA certified -
Injectable
certified
HONORS
Recipient of the E. B. Alexander Optometric Fellowship to the Gesell
Institute of
Child Development, 1970-71
Second Place, Best Guest Editorial, JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL OPTOMETRY,
awarded by the Optometric Writers
Association, 1994, Research and
Optometry
American Foundation for Vision Awareness, 1995 President’s Award,
Tennessee Optometric Association, 1999 Optometrist of the Year,
Selected as one of the Top Ten Optometrists of the Decade by
Optometric
Management Magazine -1999
President’s Special Recognition Award, Southern College of Optometry
– 2000
Southern College of Optometry Lifetime Achievement Award – 2001
Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association - John Streff Award -
2002
Joint
Conference on Theoretical and Clinical Optometry - Bob Rosenthal
Award – 2002
National
Academies of Practice – elected to membership as Distinguished
Practitioner – 2004
VSP -
Regional People First Award – 2005
COVD – G.
N. Getman Award – 2005
AOA –
Recognized with House of Delegates Resolution for work in InfantSEE®
- 2006
Lectures and Presentations
1972- Present-Continuing Education Programs at SCO on Visual
Therapy, Strabismus,
Sports Vision, and
Examination of Children
1974 - Florida OEP Study Group
1980 - Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Human Development
1980 - Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Speech, Language, and Hearing
Association
1983 - Tennessee Paraoptometric Association
1985 - Northeastern State University Symposium on Theoretical and
Clinical Optometry
1985 - St. Luke's Eye Clinic Continuing Education Program, New Port
Richey, Florida
1985 - West Tennessee Optometric Association/Tennessee Optometric
Association
Annual Continuing Education
1986 - Tennessee Paraoptometric Association
1986 - Ft. Lauderdale Distinguished Speaker Seminar
1987 - Southern Educational Congress of Optometry
1987 - Reading Seminar-Reading, PA
1987 - Participant in the AOA Symposium on Binocular Vision-Memphis
1988 - Reading Seminar-Reading, PA
1988 - Southwest Council of Optometry
1988 - Participant in the AOA Symposium on Binocular Vision-Chicago
1988 - Kansas Optometric Association Mid-year Meeting
1988 - San Jose Vision Therapy Conference
1989 - Optometric Center of Maryland
1989 - Participant in the AOA Symposium on Binocular Vision-Boston
1989 - Rapid Fire Session at the AOA Congress
1989 - San Jose Vision Therapy Conference-AOA Symposium
1989 - Tennessee Optometric Association Fall Educational Conference
1990 - Indian Optometric Association, Bombay, India
1990 - Kentucky Optometric Association
1990 - AOA Symposium-AOA Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii
1990 - Heart of America Optometric Congress
1991 - California Optometric Association
1991 - Florida Optometric Association
1991 - Southern College of Optometry Homecoming '91
1992 – Federottica - Association of Italian Optometrists, Bari,
Italy
1992 - American Foundation for Vision Awareness-Annual Educational
Program
1992 - Tennessee Optometric Association-Fall Educational
Conference-Knoxville
1992 - Tennessee Optometric Association-Fall Educational
Conference-Memphis.
1993 - Indiana Optometric Association
1993 - American Optometric Association-Annual Congress, Anaheim, CA
1994 - American Foundation for Vision Awareness-Annual Education
Program,
1995 - American Optometric Student Association, Annual Meeting
1995 - Arkansas Optometric Association, held in Memphis, TN
1996 - Southern Educational Congress of Optometry, Atlanta, GA
1996 - East West Eye Conference, Cleveland, OH
1996 - South Carolina Optometric Association, Hilton Head, SC
1997 - COVD Annual Meeting
1998 - Special Kids, Memphis, TN
1998 - STAR Program at Evangelical Christian School, Memphis, TN
1998 - Great Lakes Optometric Congress, Chicago, IL
1998 - East West Eye Conference, Cleveland, OH
1999 - Special Kids, Memphis, TN
1999 - Joint Conference on Theoretical and Clinical Optometry
1999 - American Optometric Association Annual Congress
1999 - Tennessee Optometric Association Annual Congress
2000 - Joint Conference on Theoretical and Clinical Optometry
2000 - American Optometric Association Annual Congess
2000 - North Carolina Optometric Society
2001 – Southern Educational Congress of Optometry
2001 – American Optometric Association Annual Congress
2001 – San Jose Vision Therapy Conference
2001 – Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress
2001 – Maine Optometric Association Fall Education Conference
2001 – Southern College of Optometry Fall Homecoming CE
2001 – New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians – Therapy by the
Sea
2001 – Mississippi Optometric Association Fall Education Conference
2002 – Southern Educational Congress of Optometry
2002 – Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association
2002 – Iowa Optometric Association
2002 – EyeCare 2002
2002 – Tennessee Optometric Association
2002 – Michigan Optometric Association Contact lens and Primary Care
Seminar
2002 – OptoEast
2002 – COVD Annual Meeting
2003 – SECO
2003 – New Mexico Optometric Association
2003 – Alabama Optometric Association
2003 - Florida Optometric Association
2003 – Optometric Association of Louisiana
2003 – American Optometric Association – San Diego, CA
2003 – OEP Infant and Toddler Seminar – Baltimore, MD
2003 – Kansas Optometric Association – Children’s Vision and
Learning Conference
2003 – East West Eye Conference
2004 – SECO – Infant Vision Rapid Fire Session
2004 – Northwest Congress of Optometry
2004 – Southwest Congress of Optometry
Several other local and regional optometric and related groups
Original Papers
Presented twenty-seven original papers at the Southeast Optometric
Vision Forum -
topics range from retinoscopy
to diagnostic codes used in vision
therapy to consultation
with allied professionals in the vision therapy practice.
Research and Optometry, Guest Editorial, Journal of Behavioral
Optometry, Volume 4
#4 1993
Patriotism and Responsibility
– Guest Editorial, Journal of
Behavioral
Optometry, Vol. 12 #6 2001
I Was Part of a Great Team – Guest Editorial, Journal of Behavioral
Optometry, Vol 14
#3 2003
2004 - Kraskin Invitational Skeffington Symposium – paper on
Development
2004 –
Invitational Lens Symposium – Retinoscopy, A Video Not a Snapshot
CONTRIBUTOR TO OTHER STATEMENTS FACT SHEETS AND DOCUMENTS
Vision-A
Collaboration of Eyes and Brain
Optometric
Co-Management of Vision Therapy
The Use of
Tinted Lenses and Colored Overlays for the Treatment of Dyslexia and
Other Related Reading and
Learning Disabilities
Definition
of Vision Therapy - AOA
Chairside
Guide to Infant and Toddler Eye and Vision Examination - ICVC
Contributor To Policy Statements
Joint Organizational Policy Statement on Vision, Learning and
Dyslexia - American
Optometric Association and
American Academy of Optometry - approved
1997
Joint Organizational Policy Statement on Vision Therapy - American
Optometric
Association and American
Academy of Optometry - approved 1999
Civic Activities
Germantown United Methodist Church- choir, vice-president Seekers
Sunday School
Class -1998-2000
Kewsick East Civic Association-1982-90-Vice President, 1984-85,
President 1985-86
Kimbrough Woods Homeowners Association, 1990-94
Duntreath East Homeowners Association-1995-2000
Almadale Farms Homeowners Association - 2000-present
Political Affiliation - Democrat
Personal:
married - Brenda Downs Steele
children - John White
- Todd Steele
- Trent Steele

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