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Major Practice Change to Occur

Dr. Harris Accepts a Faculty Position at Southern College of Optometry

 

I have been offered and have accepted a faculty position at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee and will go on staff as of the beginning of September. I have greatly enjoyed the day-to-day practice of my profession and helping people get the most out of their visual process from the private practice setting.  

 
This change will allow me to devote more time to three aspects of my professional life. I would like to do more teaching, writing and research. As you may know I love teaching and have done so through the post-graduate courses I have taught since early 1991. These have afforded me the opportunity to travel the world and to meet many wonderful people. I have also been honored for my writing but have not had the time to pursue the textbook for the profession I have outlined. I also have published six formal research papers but am only touching the tip of the iceberg in terms of what puzzles I think I can solve and then share with my fellow optometrists. By accepting this faculty position I will have the opportunity to do all of these things and therefore have accepted the call.
 
If you would like to see me one more time before I leave for Memphis, I will be available through August 25th. I apologize for any inconvenience my move causes you. Know that I’ll always be available via email and should you be in Memphis, I can see you at The Eye Center.
 

Paul Harris, OD

 

Welcome to the best vision care available anywhere! I am proud of our ability to deliver unmatched excellence in personalized service with uncompromised quality. If there is any way to help you see more efficiently, with more ease, or to help you read faster with better understanding with less visual stress, or if there is a way to help you be a safer driver or a better athlete, we will find it and deliver it! 

My practice philosophy is based on the Behavioral Concept of Vision Care, which recognizes you as an integral part of the health care team. The visual evaluation I perform is meant to identify the ways you use your vision and to find out how we might be able to use lenses or vision therapy to help you achieve the things you want to in life. My philosophy is less is best when it comes to prescribing lenses. I tend to prescribe lower amounts of lens powers, in various forms, with the goal of stimulating your visual system to work more effectively and more efficiently than full power prescriptions allow. Over time, this philosophy leads to becoming less dependent on eyewear. Prevention, protection, and performance are the three "P's" of lens prescribing. 

Some of your unmet needs may require vision therapy to solve. Vision therapy is a step-by-step developmental program to help you learn to use your visual system in new ways to gather information from your environment and to use that information to direct the many actions you do throughout the day. Most purposeful movement is visually guided. Inaccuracies in the guidance of your movements is the cause of most accidents. The visual process is not just a passive receiver of light but is an active process whereby you do most of what you do day in and day out. It is our job to help you be the best you can be.