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Bio
George W. Veliky, OD, took a Bachelor of Science in biology at Rutgers University, graduating with honors, election to Phi Beta Kappa, and an honors project studying the leading causes of blindness. The New England College of Optometry granted the optometry degree. Ocular disease residency training followed, and an invitation to stay on as a consultative optometrist has held since 1999.
The clinical work is consultative and built on that ocular disease training. Running the residency and internship programs puts the same material in front of the optometrists coming up behind, through lectures and workshops for staff. Four adjunct professorships, published work in The Review of Optometry, and talks to societies across two states carry the teaching past one building.
Recognition has come from the profession as well, including a Young Optometrist of the Year award from the state society. In Dr. Veliky's own words, "This job never stops being teaching, whether the person across from me is a patient working out what a diagnosis means or a resident working out how to make one. Both conversations go better when nobody is rushed." Patients can visit Dr. Veliky at Omni Eye Services in Iselin, New Jersey.