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
- 6th 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
- 3rd 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