How can DVMs help?

REFERRING GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Thank you for helping your Service Animal owners benefit from our ophthalmologists' free eye exams. We are proud to announce registration will be open for the 16th anniversary of the National Service Animal Eye Exam Event, sponsored by Epicur Pharma®, April 1st - 30th. The ACVO/Epicur National Service Animal Eye Exam Event brings together more than 245 board-certified ACVO Diplomates across approximately 170 cities in the U.S.A., Canada, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom to provide free eye exams to Service and Working Animals in May. Appointment availability can be limited and must be made by Service and Working Animal handlers during the registration period from April 1st to 30th, 2025.

After the 2024 event over 86,000 Service and Working Animals have been screened.

The ACVO is dedicated to working with referring practitioners as a team and will support your annual general care. Consider referring your Service and Working Animal clients to this annual event and the ophthalmologist will provide a copy of the examination results on to the client, which you may wish to add to the client's file. The goal is to screen these animals annually and provide you with the information you need to determine in-house treatments and/or watch for a time when a referral may be needed for expanded treatment.

If you know of a client who may qualify and benefit from the program, please provide them this website or Facebook link. Consider 'liking' the event on Facebook through your clinic Facebook site to help spread the word. We also have some tools you may wish to use, banner ads, press releases, etc. Registration occurs during the month of April annually, exams are held during the month of May.

A quick summary, printable one page document, that will introduce you and your staff to the program will be coming soon. View the program PSA. More information about qualifications and FAQs are available throughout this website. Contact us if you have questions. THANK YOU!