Scientific Excellence
Rigorous, evidence-based clinical education grounded in the science of the anterior segment.
Founding Vision
Built by a Clinician. For Clinicians.
OASiS was founded on a single conviction: anterior segment optometry deserves its own intellectual home.
Dr. Alexander Kabiri, OD
Founder & Executive Director
Alexander Kabiri, OD
Founder & Executive Director, OASiS
Dr. Alexander Kabiri is an anterior segment optometrist, educator, and clinical innovator whose career has been defined by a singular focus: advancing the science and practice of anterior segment care.
After years of clinical practice, teaching, and observing the fragmented landscape of anterior segment education, Dr. Kabiri recognized that no single organization existed to unify the discipline — to connect dry eye with cornea, blepharitis with contact lenses, anterior uveitis with imaging, and regenerative medicine with clinical practice.
OASiS is his answer to that gap. Not a conference. Not a CE company. A professional society — the intellectual and professional home of anterior segment optometry.
Our Mission
Organize. Advance. Connect.
OASiS exists to organize, advance, and connect the entire ecosystem of anterior segment optometry. We bring together clinicians, educators, researchers, residents, students, and industry partners around one shared clinical territory.
Lifelong Learning
A commitment to continuous professional development from student to master clinician.
Clinical Scholarship
Advancing the literature, guidelines, and consensus statements that define best practice.
Professional Identity
Giving anterior segment optometrists a recognized home, a shared language, and a collective voice.
Community
Connecting clinicians across disciplines, career stages, and geographies.
Innovation
Embracing emerging technology, regenerative medicine, and the future of anterior segment care.
Our Lane
The AOA protects the profession. OASiS advances the clinician.
OASiS was not created to replace, compete with, or diminish the important work of the American Optometric Association, state associations, or regional societies. Those organizations play indispensable roles in advocacy, licensure, legislation, and professional representation. Our mission is different — and complementary.
The Ecosystem
More than a society. An operating system for anterior segment optometry.
The OASiS ecosystem is designed to grow. Today it begins with the Society and myODce. Tomorrow it will include publications, research collaboratives, clinical guidelines, a faculty network, resident communities, student chapters, and more.
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