and CEO, Line Vreven, to ensure that the Foundation continues to run smoothly day-to-day. Through the internationally known Clinical Curriculum, our newly established Wednesday night lecture series, several chat groups for both students and practitioners, and a wide variety of publications, our mission of providing up-to-date, inspiring education in behavioral vision is well supported. We also sponsor the International Congress of Behavioral Vision (ICBO) once every four years, which brings together vision therapy organizations from all over the world in one location to learn from, collaborate with, and enjoy growing friendship with doctors and therapists who all love VT! Our next ICBO will be March 1-4, 2028, in Las Vegas, Nevada. We will also celebrate OEPF’s Centennial, so it’s going to be a fantastic celebration—we’d LOVE to see you there! You also serve as the Managing Editor for OVP, how did that happen and what does that entail? I began working with OVP’s forerunner, the Journal of Behavioral Optometry, in 2011, serving as their Associate Editor. When that journal’s run came to an end and we founded OVP, it was natural for me to move into the same role at the new publication. After a year or so, I was promoted to Managing Editor and have thoroughly enjoyed working with Dr Marc Taub and the Associate Editors to bring you this amazing international collaboration! How do you think OEPF can serve the next generation of optometrists? As we learn more and more about the links between neuroscience and vision rehabilitation, it has become more and more obvious to me that the behavioral philosophy—a holistic approach to vision therapy that pays close attention to the patient’s underlying reasons for the visual adaptations that they have made—is the best way to help guide patients to their best visual potential. Moving into the future, OEPF can not only help established providers become more experienced with their VT, but it can also inspire whole new groups of ODs who want to expand their practices into new and exciting areas of patient care. We’re here for you, come check us out! What are your hobbies and how do you relax in your non-optometry time? I’m a bit of a homebody, so I enjoy spending time there with my husband and our dogs! I love to read and crochet and be able to relax doing “nothing” on occasion, but I also love seeing new places and being able to travel when the opportunity comes along. I have had several opportunities to lecture in locations across the world, including Israel, South Africa, Mexico, Canada, and most recently Poland. A bit more than a hobby now, I am also a semiprofessional musician. I have played a number of instruments since childhood and still perform on flute fairly regularly. I started singing as a young child in church choirs and picked up that again when I moved to New York; I met my husband David in the Marble Collegiate Church choir in the city, a classical tenor who inspired me to keep learning. We’ve been singing together in various choirs and organizations ever since! I am currently a member of the choir at First Baptist Church in Memphis (my home congregation), and I do gig work for a number of others, most notably St. John’s Episcopal Church, with whom I have had the honor of traveling to both Ireland and the UK to participate in choral residencies at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and Liverpool Cathedral in England. I am also a member of the Memphis Symphony Chorus and the Memphis Symphony Chamber Choir, so my weeks are kept busy! I honestly wouldn’t know how to live a life without music and am so grateful for the opportunities I’ve had. Optometry & Visual Performance 118 Volume 14 | Issue 2 | June 2026 Check out this new book from OEPF!
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