Amy
Moy,
OD, FAAO, FNAP, CPCO
Senior Director, Community Health Initiatives and Optometric Compliance
New England College of Optometry
Amy Roan Moy, OD, FAAO, FNAP is the Senior Director of Community Health Initiatives and Optometric Compliance and Associate Professor of Clinical Optometry at the New England College of Optometry (NECO). She oversees the Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) curriculum at NECO and has been committed to interprofessional practice for 20 years as an optometrist in the community health center setting.
Dr. Moy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, as well as a member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC). She actively serves in the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) as a member of the Clinical Affairs Committee and Clinic Directors Committee, as well as a co-moderator of the biannual ASCO Online Clinical Educators’ Forum. She was the principal investigator for the Boston Latino Eye Study, and has presented nationally on interprofessional care, optometric education, care for patients with disabilities, infection control, billing and coding, and visual health equity.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The New England College of Optometry (NECO) is a single-professional school in the process of formalizing an interprofessional education (IPE) program as part of the student curriculum. Barriers to implementation have included finding a partnership with other health professions, adding on activities to an already-full curriculum, establishing structural support, scheduling coursework with other schools and establishing faculty support. Various institutions were contacted for potential IPE partnership, but well-established IPE programs did not have room for a new school and profession with…