February 2026 Dear Friends of GPLI, It’s hard to believe another year has already passed. 2025 was a year of meaningful progress, collaboration, and growth for the GP Lens Institute (GPLI), and it has only heightened our excitement for what lies ahead. I have been...
February 2026 Happy New Year! I hope you, your families, and friends had a wonderful Holiday season and are looking forward to 2026. In ancient Roman myth, Janus (for which the name of the month of January originated) was the god of beginnings and endings, depicted by...
November 2025 The Merton C. Flom Leadership Academy is designed to help optometrists develop their full leadership potential through guided individual study, facilitated discussion, and optimization of their personal talents identified through the Gallup...
By GPLI President Derrell James, August 2025 Dear all GPLI friends and colleagues, I thought it would be timely to catch up our membership, advisory board, and friends on all the wonderful things the GPLI has been doing and is planning to do as 2025 is moving swiftly...
By GPLI President Derrell James, March 2025 Dear all GPLI friends and colleagues, Welcome to the end of Q1 2025 – hard to believe that this year is passing so quickly and that we are two months removed from a very successful GSLS! I’d like to express my sincerest...
By Dr. Ed Bennett, December 2024 It all started in the mid-1980s at a Paragon Vision Science Clinical Investigator’s meeting in Scottsdale, AZ. At dinner, prominent St. Louis contact lens specialist Dr. Frank Fontana was whispering to everyone (but me) about starting...
