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Six ODs have been named as 2026 Theia Award winners. The winners will be celebrated with a champagne toast at the close of the 2026 Women’s Leadership Conference, Tuesday, Sept. 29. Save your seat here. This is the 11th year that WO has presented the Theia Awards to women who have made exceptional contributions to optometry across a variety of professional roles. During the first 10 years of the award, 71 women have been honored.

Luminopia, Inc., a digital health company for treatments for neuro-visual disorders, announced a content licensing agreement with Spin Master Corp., a children’s entertainment company, to bring popular children’s series to pediatric amblyopia patients using Luminopia’s FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutic. Spin Master joins Luminopia’s growing roster of entertainment partners, expanding the company’s library of age-appropriate content for patients to watch during therapy.

Ethel Hunter Ogden Burwell Ethel Hunter Ogden Burwell, 89, passed away Friday, July 17, 2026. Her life was characterized by friendliness and kindness and anchored in the security of her family and faith in God. Ethel was born Sept. 13, 1936, in Atlanta, to William Frederick Ogden and Ethel Farmer Hunter Ogden. Within her first year of life, the family moved to Chicago where her father took a job with Hotpoint, a subsidiary of General Electric.