Joseph P. Shovlin, OD, FAAO
Special Contributor

Dr. Shovlin is clinical editor for Review of Cornea & Contact Lenses and associate clinical editor for Review of Optometry. He serves on the review boards of several other eye care journals as well.

He is director of the Contact Lens Service and optometric director of the Laser Vision Center at the Northeastern Eye Institute in Scranton, Pa., and is an adjunct faculty member at Pennsylvania College of Optometry, where he obtained his doctor of optometry degree.

Dr. Shovlin's numerous other eye care-related positions include consultant for the FDA's Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health and member of the National Advisory Eye Council of the National Eye Institute, the National Institutes of Health. He is a distinguished practitioner of the National Academy of Practice, a past chair of the Contact Lens Section of the American Optometric Association, and a diplomate and vice chair of the Section on Cornea and Contact Lenses of the American Academy of Optometry.

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