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Dr. Closson Joins JJV’s Professional Education Team in Newly Created Position
Christi Closson OD, FAAO has been appointed to the newly created position of Senior Manager Professional Education at Johnson & Johnson Vision. As the company focuses support on the next generation of eye doctors and prepare to activate ECPs with an expanding new ACUVUE® portfolio, Dr. Closson will work with the student education team to create and execute an effective education plan, tailored to current students of optometry and new and recent graduates. She will also lead the professional education strategy aimed at selected new product offerings in 2022 and beyond.
Dr. Closson is passionate about optometric education and working with students, educators and practitioners to elevate individual practice and the profession as a whole. She brings a myriad of experience from optometric education, leadership, public speaking, group, hospital, corporate and private practice. She most recently served as Chief of Low Vision at the Pacific University College of Optometry and the Director of the Low Vision Clinic at the Washington State School for the Blind. Dr. Closson has been a successful practice owner for the past 11 years where she focused on primary care and contact lenses. She also has been a Professional Affairs Consultant for Johnson & Johnson Vision, and a Faculty Member for the Johnson & Johnson Institute for more than decade.
Community service is a large part of her professional life. She is Vice Chair of the Oregon Commission for the Blind, serves on the Board of Directors for Amigos Eye Care and started a pediatric mobile low vision clinic for Washington state. Her most treasured accomplishment has been taking two of her children on international eye care missions. In addition, Dr Christi Closson completed her education at the Southern California College of Optometry followed by a postgraduate residency at W.W. Hastings Indian Health Hospital in Oklahoma, in primary care and hospital-based optometry.
