Dr. Robert Hohendorf - Grand
Rapids Michigan
OEP Chairman of the
Curriculum Development Committee
Vision and Sensory Center
Assessment and Treatment of Vision Disorders
4467
Byron Center Ave SW
Wyoming, MI 49519
616
534 4953
Dr. Hohendorf is a 1975 graduate of Illinois College of Optometry where
he participated in an intensified vision
therapy internship under the tutelage of Drs Coleman Hatfield and
Leo Manas. He practiced in the Grand
Rapids MI suburb of Kentwood in a full scope practice (South Kent
Vision Center) until 2003 when he moved to
another suburb, Wyoming, and established a visual therapy referral
practice within the multi-specialty clinic,
he co-founded, called The Vision and Sensory Center.
He was a three-year president of the West Michigan Optometric Association
and a chairman of the Michigan
Optometric Associations Vision Therapy Committee. He serves his
community with membership in the Wyoming (MI)
Lions Club. He is currently on the board of the State of MI Project
Kidsight (photo screening for infant and toddlers)
and is the regional Chairman of the International Campaign Sight
First II project. He has also served on the boards
of the local Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the
Kent County Board of Head Start as its president
from 1993-1994.He has also been a consultant to several local
schools and the local professional basketball team
the Grand Rapids Hoops.
He has been married to Susan since 1969 and has two children, Chad and
Jenni, who have grown into responsible
adults. His current activities include local, statewide, and
international speaking on vision and learning. His hobbies
are golf, horticulture and stamp collecting.
Current memberships are; state director of the Michigan Optometric
Extension Program, Chairman of the
Optometric Extension Programs Curriculum Development Committee, An
associate member of COVD, OEPF Michigan
Optometric Association, American Optometric Association, and was a
founding board member of the Baltimore
Academy of Behavioral Optometry.
In his position as the chair of the Curriculum Development Committee of
the OEP he oversees and helps develop
the continued excellence of all of OEP's lecture educational
offerings. He is also responsible for direct over sight of
the OEP speaker development committee and the current Regional
Clinical Seminar (RCS) program.
CURRICULUM VITAE / RESUME
1966 1968 Pre Medicine
Curriculum Central Michigan University
1968 1970 United States Army
(Honorable discharge Sp 5 rank)
1970 Present Member of Michigan
Optometric Association
4 Years
State Vision Therapy Chair
1972 Present Optometric
Extension Program Member
1985
Present: State of MI Director
2000
Present, Chair of Clinical Curriculum Development
1974 Present Member of
American Optometric Association
June 1975 Graduated
Illinois College Optometry
August 1975 Licensed State Of
Michigan
1975 Present LIONS Club
International
Wyoming:
President Twice (1981 and 1991)
Lion of the Year, (1981 and 2001)
Held all elected offices except Secretary and Treasurer
District:
District 11-C-1 Sight Conservation Chairman 1984 Present
District Sight Mobile Chairman 1979-1989
District Lion of the Year 1993-1994
Association for Blind Board Member for 2 Years
Regional Eye Bank Chairman 1980-1997
Campaign Sight First II regional Chair 2006-present
State:
State Lion Eye Health Program - 1996 1998
Certified Enucleist (1st
Optometrist in Michigan to enucleate)
State of Michigan Campaign Sight First Chairman 1993-1994
LIONS of MI Photoscreener Committee 1999-present
1975 Present West Michigan
Optometric Association (President 3 Years)
August 1975 Worked with D.B.
Schondelmayer, O.D., Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 1977 Opened South Kent
Vision Services Private Practice
For 2 Years Vision
Consultant to Lowell, Michigan School District
For 3 Years Consultant Grand
Rapids Hoops (CBA)
1990 - Present Formed Partnership
& Founded South Kent Vision Center, P.C.
1992 Present Associate Member
College of Optometrists in Vision Development
1992 2003 Baltimore Academy
of Behavioral Optometry Board Member
President 2000 2003
1994 1995 President of
Michigan Family Resource (Kent County Head Start)
1996 1997 Consultant to post
concussion treatment program Spectrum Health
Downtown Campus (formerly Butterworth Hospital)
1998 2002 Consultant to
Huntington Woods Elementary School Wyoming, Michigan
2003 Present Chairman of OEP
Curriculum Development Committee
2004 Present Formed Vision and
Sensory Center LLC combining OT, SLP,
Psychology, Nutritional and Optometric Referral Care
PRESENTATIONS
Vision & Learning: Grandville,
Michigan School District
Council
of Exceptional Children
Byron
Center, Michigan- Intermediate School District
Saginaw, Michigan Intermediate School District
CHAD
(Kent County ADD Association)
State
of Michigan Vision & Learning Conference
Huntington Woods Elementary School Wyoming, Michigan
Michigan Council For Exceptional Children
Central
Woodlands School (Forest Hills School District), Vision
and
school achievement, Gray Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Primary Care of the Pediatric
Patient
Michigan Optometric Association Members Grand Rapids. MI
Vision & Head Injury
Rehabilitation
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation
Hospital (Drivers Training Rehabilitation) Grand Rapids, MI
Post Concussion Syndrome The
Hidden Injury Holland, Michigan
Optometric Extension Program
Clinical Curriculum Instructor (BABO)(1998 Present)
Behavioral Vision Care
Five-day course History, Theory, and Research and Application
A)
General Skills Development 5 day Vision Therapy Course
B)
Vision and Learning 5
day Vision Therapy Course
C)
Strabismus and Amblyopia
5 Day Vision Therapy Course
More Then Meets the Eye
(November 13 14, 1998)
West Michigan
Occupational Therapists Grand Rapids, MI
Vision and Head Injuries
(12/01/2001) Grand Rounds
Mary Free Bed Rehab
Hospital Grand Rapids, MI
Vision the Emergent and
Performance Testing (March 2-3 2001)
Telford England
Vision Screenings, amblyopia, and
patching treatment (Sept 7 and 11, 2001)
MI Department of Health
Vision Screeners Training
Frankenmuth, MI and
Traverse City, MI
VT Voodoo or Viable (September
5 and 9, 2003)
MI Department of Health
Vision Screeners Training
Frankenmuth, MI and
Traverse City, MI
How Vision Affects Learning (A
behavioral Optometric approach with Treatment Options)
OEP NE Congress Worcester, MA Sept 19-20, 2004
How Vision Affects Learning: A
Behavioral Optometric Approach With Treatment Options
OEP SW Congress San
Antonio, Texas
A Functional, Behavioral Look at
Strabismus (May 29, 2005)
Quebec Optometric
Symposium Montreal, Canada
From General Practice to Vision
Therapy Only Practice (September 2005)
OEP Middle America
Optometric Congress Pittsburgh, PA (Sep 2005)
Principles of Prescribing for
Hyperopia (April 2006)
International Congress of
Behavioral Optometry (ICBO) Sydney, Australia
Prescribing for Myopia (Nov
25-26, 2006)
Danish Optometry and
Contact Lens Society (DOKS) Middelfart Denmark
Lowering the Burner Settings for
Successful Visual Therapy (May 20-21, 2007)
British Assoc of
Behavioral Optometrists (BABO) Warrick, England
Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation
(May 31, 2007)
Worth Rehabilitation Network
Kentwood, MI
Vision Therapy and How It Applies
to TBI Patients ((July 17 2007)
Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo
Case Management Association Muskegon, MI
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