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 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...

The GP Lens Institute is proud to announce that as of January 1, 2025 Jennifer Harthan OD, FAAO, FSLS will assume the role of Executive Director of the GP Lens Institute (GPLI). She will become the third Executive Director in the history of this organization and just the second since Dr. Ed Bennett – who announced his plans to retire this past June – assumed the role in January, 1988.

contributed by Tom Quinn, O.D. M.S., F.A.A.O., F.S.L.S. & adapted from the publication in Contact Lens Spectrum on 6/9/24 After nearly 36 years at the helm, Ed Bennett, O.D., M.S.Ed., F.A.A.O., F.S.L.S. will be retiring from serving as both Executive Director and...