Optometry Alumna Elected Vice President of American Optometric Association

A Ferris State University Michigan College of Optometry alumna is continuing her progression in leadership of the American Optometric Association.

Dr. Barbara Horn, a 1998 MCO graduate, was sworn in as vice president of the AOA on June 24, 2017 in Washington, DC as part of the association’s annual “Optometry’s Meeting.”

Horn has been an AOA board member since June 2011 and had been named the AOA’s Young Optometrist of the Year in 2006. She had been AOA secretary and treasurer, with duties that present around 100 days of travel per year, on behalf of the association. As vice president, she will serve as AOA’s speaker of the house pro-tem and have committee and association involvement with southeastern association affiliates, as well as representing the AOA board at two colleges of optometry.

“It is an honor to serve this association, the only association that advocates for our patients and our profession,” Horn said. “I look forward to continuing to serve, to protect and to advance our profession. I ask all ODs to join in our mission to move forward together. We are strongest together.”

Horn is a full-time optometric physician at Vaught Eye Associates in Conway, South Carolina. She resides in Myrtle Beach with her husband, Dr. Mike Weisgerber, a 1992 alumnus of MCO, and their two children, Brooke and Mick.