NEW YORK--Promoting a new model of vision care called “Healthy Sight Counseling,” Transitions Optical presented its new global medical director, Susan Stenson, MD, and two optometric advisors, Paula Newsom, OD, and Madeline Romeu, OD, at Expo East.

Promoting “Healthy Sight in Every Light” are members of Transitions’ new Healthy Sight Counseling team (front l to r): Madeline Romeu, OD; Paula Newsom, OD; and Susan Stenson, MD, with Denis Fisk and Bette Zaret of Transitions.

The Healthy Sight Counseling model represents a comprehensive approach to eyecare that reaches beyond prescribing or dispensing eyeglasses to address preventive vision and eyecare concerns, and includes a strong consultative patient education component, according to Transitions.

“Glasses should be more than just

a refraction and writing out a script,” said Stenson, explaining how the program works.

The holistic approach to vision care includes quality of vision, which encompasses contrast, sensitivity and glare; quantity of vision, which is the Snellen acuity; health, both eye and general; prevention such as diet, exercise, UV protection and regular eye exams; kids’ eyes to identify special risks and needs; and eyewear, meaning the enhancement to vision that eyewear can bring such as the benefits of AR, photochromics and polarized lenses.

“Intelligent vision correction will provide the best possible vision combined with long-term ocular well being over the long term,” Stenson explained.

“This model, we think, has the potential to bring to light a new way eyecare professionals can provide for the healthy sight of their patients by expanding the compass of the practitioner’s role and by linking eye health to overall health and well-being,” said Denis Fisk, Transitions’ global director of education.            --Christie Walker