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Our Mission: To protect the health, safety and welfare of Arizona citizens by regulating and achieving the highest standards in the optometry profession.
What We Do: The Board examines, licenses, and regulates the profession of Optometric Doctors (O.D.) in the state of Arizona, as well as regulates out-of-state contact lens dispensers.
Arizona State Board of Optometry
1400 West Washington, Suite# 230
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Phone: (602) 542-3095
Disclosure Statement of locations where all Notices of the meetings of the Board are posted.
The Arizona State Board of Optometry (“Board”) website linked to www.optometry.az.gov (“website”) is the official website of the agency for providing license lookup and license verification information. The website receives and hosts the information directly from the Board database in an electronic manner protected from alteration by unauthorized individuals.
Consistent with JCAHO, NCQA, and other standards for primary source verification, the site is considered a primary source for Board data and is the same information the agency provides through other means such as its IVR system at 602-542-3095, fax, mail or e-mail and is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. The information is updated daily at 4:30 p.m. and the date of the most recent update is provided at the bottom of each directory page.
ATTENTION CURRENT LICENSEES:
In the 1st regular session of the fiftieth legislature (2011)- An amendment to A.R.S. §41-1080 constitutes that the Citizenship Verification Form (CVF) with documentation is now required for initial licensure only. Once you have submitted the CVF with proper documentation to the Board, it will not be necessary to resubmit at renewal unless you are not a permanent resident of the United States and your citizenship status/documents expire.
Latisse (formerly Lumigan) is a drug that received FDA approval in 2008 as a treatment for hypotrichosis of the eyelashes, the condition of having inadequate or not enough eyelashes, and is marketed for both therapeutic and cosmetic purposes.
Arizona therapeutically certified optometrists may prescribe a pharmaceutical agent for the treatment of an abnormal condition of the visual system but not for cosmetic purposes. Therefore, while “hypotrichosis” is a relative term, a licensed optometrist who holds a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents (PA) certificate may prescribe Latisse for a diagnosed condition of hypotrichosis supported by proper documentation in the patient’s record. Doctors holding only a DPA or TPA certificate may NOT prescribe Latisse.
Do you know about the voluntary Department of Transportation reporting law?
Pursuant to A.R.S. §28-3005, optometrists may voluntarily report a patient (to the Department of Motor Vehicles) who has a medical condition that, in the opinion of the optometrist, could significantly impair the person's ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
The full text of this statute can be found at the following link:
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/28/03005.htm&Title=28&DocType=ARS
The law also states that the optometrist providing the information to the director in good faith is immune from personal liability with respect to the information being provided.
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