Steve Gallop, O.D., F.C.O.V.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, TRAINING and DEGREES

• In private practice since 1990
• November 1993 Received Fellow of College of Optometrists in Vision Development
• May 1989 Received Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College of Optometry
• November 1988 Completed three month Internship at The Eye Institute - Binocular Vision Section
• August 1988 Completed three month Internship at Rosebud Indian Reservation, Public Health Service
• May 1986 Received Bachelor of Science from PCO/Temple University

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• College of Optometrists in Vision Development - member since 1986

• Optometric Extension Program Foundation - Clinical Associate since 1989
• Member Behavioral Vision Project, Clinical Coursework since 1995
• American Optometric Association - member 1985-95
• Pennsylvania Optometric Association - member 1985-95
• Chester/Delaware County Optometric Society - member 1990-95

Treasurer 1992

Secretary 1993

LICENSURE

• Licensed to practice Optometry in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia since 1989 (NJ and VA licenses are currently inactive)

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Looking Differently at Nearsightedness and Myopia - January 2002

The Kingdom of Should (adio story) w/ Joe Romano and Joan Raina

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

• Binasal Occlusion (OVP, Vol.1,#? 2014)
• Viewpoint: Assumptions in Practice (JBO, Vol. 22,#6 2011)
• Viewpoint: Reconfiguring Lens Power for Improved Function (JBO, Vol. 22, #1 2011)
• Viewpoint: Prevention and early intervention with plus for near (JBO, Vol. 16, #3 2005)
• Viewpoint: What’s so great about 20/20? (JBO, Vol. 12, #2 2001)
• Minus for some (JBO; Vol. 10, #4 1999)
• Compensating & therapeutic lenses: Passive vs. dynamic prescribing, An essay (JBO; Vol. 9, #5 1998)
• A Variation on the use of binasal occlusion: A case study (JBO; Vol. 9, #2 1998)
• Peripheral visual awareness: The central issue (JBO; Vol. 7, #6 1996)
• Myopia reduction…A view from the inside (JBO; Vol. 5, #5 1994)
• An essay on the reconciliation of opposites (JBO; Vol. 4, #6 1993)
• The Tao of vision training (JOVD; Vol. 21, #4 1990)

PRESENTATIONS

• Invitational Skeffington Symposium on Vision/K.I.S.S. - annual paper since 1990
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, October 5-6, 2013 – The Importance of Posture and Movement in Visual Development (w/ Joe Romano)
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, September 8-9, 2012 – The Visual Process and the Fourth Dimension
• Northeastern Optometric Congress, September 9, 2012 - Adventures In Lenses/Myopia Reduction/A Philosophy of Prescribing
• Eastern States Optometric Congress, May 5-6, 2012 - Adventures In Lenses/Myopia Reduction/A Philosophy of Prescribing
• TheraPlay Continuing Education Conference, May 4, 2012 -The Visual Process, Learning and Development
• Delaware County Intermediate Unit, February 17, 2012 - The Visual Process, Learning and Development
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, September 10-11, 2011 – Adventures In Lenses
• Annual paper – Kraskin Invitational Skeffington Symposium On Vision 1990-2011
• IsoDicentric 15: Exchange, Advocacy and Support Conference June 23, 2011
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, October 2-3, 2010 – Treating Strabismus From a Distance
• 6^th International Congress of Behavioral Optometry, April 9, 2010 – Astigmatism…with a twist.
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, October 24-25, 2009 Esotropia, Mother and Son
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, September 20-21, 2008 – Visual Training, Developmental Music Therapy and the Autistic Spectrum with Joe Romano
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, September 16-17, 2006 – Looking Differently At Nearsightedness and Myopia, and The Intersection of Lenses and Visual Training
• Reading Seminar of Advanced Behavioral Vision, April 20-22, 2001 – Philosophy of the Visual Process and Visual Training, Dynamic Lens Applications, Peripheral Visual Awareness – Lectures and workshops
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, October 16-17, 1999 - Managing Distance Acuity and Making use of Prisms and Partial Occlusion Techniques in Training and Prescribing
• 3^rd International Congress of Behavioral Optometry, May 3, 1998 - 20/20 Acuity: A Clearer Picture
• Austill’s Rehabilitation, September 28, October 5, November 7, 1995 – 3 part workshop on Functional Vision Screenings for Occupational Therapists
• Wilmington Hospital OT Dept., August 4, 1995 – Visual Therapy and TBI/CVA: Optometric/OT Comanagement
• Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, September 17-18, 1995 – Myopia Reduction: Intervention Concepts and Procedures for Nearsighted and Myopic People and Practical Realities of Providing Therapy

OTHER

Optometry & Visual Performance journal review board - 2013

Optometry & Visual Performance journal - Associate Editor - 2013