We took a look at the child eye care market to see if we could identify potential opportunities for practices to expand or improve their patient mix to include more children.
Ron Krefman, OD
Founder and CEO
focalCenter
About Ron Krefman, OD
Ronald Krefman, OD, FAAO is the founder and CEO of focalCenter. Dr Krefman has been in the eyecare industry for 40+ years. He has served as University of Illinois Medical School faculty, private practice optometrist, founder of an innovative reading glass company and editor of eyecare journals. Dr. Krefman has post graduate training in psychometrics and patient reported outcomes at Harvard. Dr. Krefman served as principal investigator for multiple clinical trials/effectiveness studies, has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, and has patents issued for eyecare products.
focalCenter is a vision industry consultancy with extensive experience conducting market research, analyzing using data science to answer solve problems, build scenarios, forecast, answer questions and discover opportunities. focalCenter consults with leading organizations, including GPN.
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