Wednesday, January 24, 2024
6 pm - 8 pm
via Zoom

Across the country, opioid misuse continues to rise. But what can you, as an Optometrist, do to help stem this ongoing epidemic?

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Dr. Rebecca Wartman attended The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (B.A. Psychology) and the University of Missouri St Louis School of Optometry. She retired from private practice caring for nursing facility patients in western North Carolina and is now a consultant and lecturer.

 Dr. Wartman is a past President of the North Carolina State Optometric Society and is currently the American Optometric Association Coding and Reimbursement Committee chair and a member of the AOA Third Party Committee.  She is the American Optometric Association advisor to CPT® Editorial Panel and on the CPT® Assistant Editorial Panel.  She is a consultant with Eye Care Centers OD, PA, in North Carolina, Third Party Liaison for the North CarolinavOptometric Society. She is a Third-Party Consultant for the Kentucky Optometric Association and the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association.

She was the 2008 North Carolina State Optometric Society Optometrist of the Year, received the 2012 and the 2021 John D. Costabile Distinguished Service Award, and was the 2013 and 2022 North Carolina Optometric Society nominee for AOA Optometrist of the Year and received the American Optometric Association President's Award in 2021.

She writes and lectures on insurance and coding issues, Drug Side Effects, and Opioids, as well as Eye Care for Long Term Care patients. Dr. Wartman is married with two adult sons, three grandsons, and one granddaughter.