Dr. Kristen Kerber of NECO shares her experience in connecting children from underserved populations with the vision care they need.
Dr. Kristen Kerber, OD, MS, FAAO, has a passion for helping children, with an emphasis on those from low-income families, and connecting them with the vision care they need. Dr. Kerber, an associate professor at the New England College of Optometry (NECO) is also a pediatric optometrist at The Dimock Center, a community health center that has a clinical relationship with NECO.
Her passion for myopia management and community advocacy has driven her to connect with programs that provide essential eye care services to underserved populations.
For the past four years, Dr. Kerber has been actively involved in CooperVision’s Adopt-a-Patient program, now known as the Give Brightly program. This initiative with academic eye care centers provides an annual supply of contact lenses to deserving, low-income patients. Recently, she has also participated in the Generation Sight program, that offers MiSight®* 1 day and Paragon CRT® contact lenses to children in need for as long as they require treatment.
“These programs have allowed me to provide countless children with high-quality eye care and the materials they need to live their fullest lives,” she says in a recent article in Women in Optometry.
Read the full Women in Optometry article and discover more about Dr. Kerber’s work as a champion for myopia management and community advocacy here.
*Indications for Use: MiSight® (omafilcon A) daily wear single use Soft Contact Lenses are indicated for the correction of myopic ametropia and for slowing the progression of myopia in children with non-diseased eyes, who at the initiation of treatment are 8-12 years of age and have a refraction of -0.75 to -4.00 diopters (spherical equivalent) with ≤ 0.75 diopters of astigmatism. The lens is to be discarded after each removal.
