New PCO Faculty Member: Dr. Stephanie Holt
When Stephanie Holt, OD ‘04, Resident ‘05, was a fourth-year student at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University, assistant professor Gwenn Amos, OD ‘92, Resident ‘93, FAAO, MPH, CMPA, took Dr. Holt skating for the first time and taught her to play ice hockey, something Dr. Holt — who played basketball in college — didn’t have the opportunity to do while growing up in North Carolina. To this day, Dr. Holt still plays ice hockey in a league in Philadelphia.
Then there are more traditional ways professors touch the lives of their students. After graduation, Dr. Holt entered the Air Force as a communications officer, not as an optometrist.
It was PCO Professor Emeritus Charles Wormington, PhD, OD, FAAO, who encouraged her to go back into the Air Force as a reservist after she became an optometrist, where she eventually would complete her military career after 20 years.
It’s those kinds of stories that Dr. Holt recalls as she enters her second stint at PCO/Salus, recently joining the faculty as an assistant professor working and teaching in the Clinical Skills Lab as well as teaching Clinical Problem Solving.