Rate My Professor Amy Moy

Amy Moy, OD, FAAO, FNAP, CPCO, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Optometry at the New England College of Optometry (NECO), where she also serves as Senior Director of Community Health Initiatives and Optometric Compliance, Director of the Health Center Network, and Chief Compliance Officer. She earned her Doctor of Optometry degree from NECO in 2003, following her undergraduate studies at the University of Florida in 1999. Her clinical training included internships at Dorchester House Health Center, Lahey Clinic, Braverman Eye Clinic, and Edith Nourse Rogers VA Medical Center, culminating in a residency in Ocular Disease and Primary Care at Bedford VA Medical Center in 2004. Dr. Moy spent 16 years as Director of Optometry at the Martha Eliot Health Center at Boston Children's Hospital, where she provided primary eye care and advanced community health optometry. Currently, she is an Attending Optometrist at the Martha Eliot Health Center and instructs courses such as Patient Care II and Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care at NECO.

Dr. Moy's academic interests focus on community health optometry, interprofessional collaborative care, quality assurance, and addressing health inequities in eye care access. She has led initiatives including the NECO Health Center Network to partner with community health centers, chaired committees on compliance and COVID response, and developed training tools like Optometry Olympics and Drug Grand Rounds. As principal investigator for the Boston Latino Eye Study, she surveyed eye disease in adult Latino patients from a community health perspective. Her key publications include 'Peer Chart Review for Quality Assurance in an Academic Healthcare Setting' (Journal of Optometric Education, 2025, with C. Lewandowski), 'Optometric Case Vignettes for the Clinical Preceptor' (Journal of Optometric Education, 2021, with J. Reilly and L. Pham), 'A Survey of Eye Disease in Adult Latino Patients in Boston' (Health and Interprofessional Practice, 2013, with K. Brown et al.), and 'Functional Loss in a Community Health Care Setting: A Teaching Case Report' (Journal of Optometric Education, 2013, with B. Pietrantonio and E. Perzan). Recognized for her mentorship and leadership, Dr. Moy received the 2025 Theia Award from Women in Optometry, the 2025 Most Influential Women in Optical honor from Vision Monday, the 2024 ClearVision-Adira Grant, and induction into the National Academies of Practice in 2023. Her work enhances optometric education, promotes accessible eye care, and fosters interdisciplinary training for future optometrists.