About Us
Made for students
-By students.
We are both current third year students who recently started seeing their first patients after two very academically challenging years of optometry school. Naturally, it was not the smoothest of transitions - remembering everything from the first two years while simultaneously trying to be efficient and perform procedures correctly was tough. The hardest part of it all - presenting your case to your attending when your mind is racing between patient history, exam data, and low self-esteem that may come with just starting out.
Julianna purchased a clinic notebook in an attempt to get more organized and efficient, but there was one huge problem - it was not for optometrists. There were notebooks for medical students, nurses, dentists, and so on, but NOTHING for optometrists. When she complained to her classmate, Shawn - author of “How to Get Into Optometry School” - he simply suggested, “why don’t we just make one”?
And here we are. We use the Optometry Clinic Notebook for shadowing, scribing, and seeing patients and we loved it so much we decided to provide it to fellow optometry students who may enjoy it too.
And we hope to provide you with more tools to ease the transition to clinic in the future. Stay tuned for what we come up with next!
Being a student is hard. We are here to help you.
We just went through it. We get you.
OPTOPALS, LLC. is dedicated to delivering effective products to improve the efficiency of optometric patient care to students and optometrists across the nation using organized and innovative methods.
Shawn
Shawn is a student attending SUNY College of Optometry with a focus in Low Vision and Ocular Disease. Along with the O.D. degree, Shawn is pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Optometric Business Management and the MBA in Healthcare Leadership. Shawn was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S.A. in Neuroscience. He is an active member of the SUNY community, representing the school as the Student Council President. In his free time, Shawn enjoys golfing, traveling, and hanging out with friends.
Julianna
Julianna is a third-year student at SUNY Optometry pursuing a contact lens microcredential and an Advanced Certificate in Optometric Business Management in addition to her O.D. degree. Originally from Long Island, New York where she also attended Hofstra University, she has devoted her career to improving quality of life through vision and ultimately plans to do so through a private practice modality. She is exploring the field as President of SOAPP (Private Practice Club), a peer mentor to first year students, and as a Student-Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. In her free time, she continues to be an optometric technician and uses her time off to travel, play the piano, and paddleboard.
(OPTOPALS LLC is NOT affiliated with SUNY Optometry.)
