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Officers

	Valerie Ricciardi, O.D. President Dr.Valarie A Ricciardi has been practicing for over 32 years , she graduated from the New England College of Optometry in1988 and Assumption College in 1984. She has been active in The MSO for 28 years in several capacities. She has served as Central District Chair , Committee chair, Secretary and now President. She is a member of the Board of Trustees at the New England College of Optometry. She practices in Worcester and Spencer with her husband Dr.Brian Thamel and her niece Dr. Nicole(Horn)Cerio and the future Dr. Lauren Thamel. Together they specialize in medical eyecare, Vision Therapy and Dry eye Management.
	Jeanne Marie Hopkins, OD 2^nd Vice President Dr. Jeanne Hopkins received her Doctor of Optometry from the New England College of Optometry in Boston in 1991, and her undergraduate degree in biology from Trinity College in 1987. She completed an ocular disease residency at Eye Health Services in Weymouth in 1992. She is currently the Director of Vision Services at Manet Community Health Center in Quincy, MA where she opened the first eye clinic in 2015. She joined The Brockton Neighborhood Health Center in 2013 when they opened the first eye clinic before transitioning to Manet. Jeanne's first exposure to working in the field of optometry was when she worked in the office of Dr. Lester Brackley, OD and Dr. Richard Houghton, OD in Quincy while in high school. She has worked in private practice in her home town of Quincy, MA for many years. Jeanne has been a member of the MSO and was the Norfolk District Representative before assume the role of 2^nd Vice President.
	Matthew Forgues, O.D. Immediate Past President Forgues Doctors of Optometry Shrewsbury-Worcester 508-574-1515 As President of the MSO, Dr. Forgues is committed to continuing the association’s mission to advance the quality, availability and accessibility of eye, vision and related health care in Massachusetts. A third-generation optometrist, Dr. Forgues practices primary eye care with his father, Dr. Mark Forgues, Jr., at Forgues Eyecare, with locations in both Worcester and Shrewsbury. Dr. Forgues is a 1999 graduate of the New England College of Optometry.
	Melanie MacBeth, O.D. Secretary Dr. Melanie Macbeth received her Doctor of Optometry from the New England College of Optometry in Boston in 2004, and is a 1997 graduate of Colby College in Maine. Dr. Macbeth practices at MyEyeDr. in Belmont (formerly Bennett Family Eye Care). Her specialties include orthokeratology, specialty contact lenses, and myopia control. In 2019, Dr. Macbeth earned the distinguished title of Fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control
	Michael Cohn, O.D. Treasurer Dr. Cohn graduated from the New England College of Optometry in 1977. He is a past president of the MSO a past chair of the Managed Care Committee and remains a member of the legal/legislative committee. Dr. Cohn has been in private practice for over forty years in both Auburn and Westborough and practices with his wife Dr. Suzanne Lucash and his son Dr. Jeffrey Cohn.
	Brian Wadman, O.D. Vice President and MOPAC Representative Vision Source Greenfield 413-772-2571 Dr. Wadman is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and the College of Wooster in Ohio. He received his optometric education at The New England College of Optometry in Boston, getting his Doctor of Optometry degree in 1985. Following his graduation, Dr. Wadman had three years of intense training in eye examinations, contact lens fitting, and the detection of ocular diseases while associated with an Ophthalmology practice in Plymouth, MA. He is a member of the Contact Lens Section of the AOA as well as a candidate to the American Academy of Optometry, and has been in private practice since 1985.

District Chairs

Angela Abraham, O.D. Boston abrahama@neco.edu Boston Brookline Cambridge Somerville	Alan Leavitt, O.D. Cape Cod 508-477-7423 mobileglaucoma@comcast.net Bourne Brewster Chatham Dennis Eastham Falmouth Harwich Mashpee Orleans Provincetown Sandwich Truro Wellfleet Yarmouth Aquinnah Chilmark Edgartown Gosnold Oak Bluffs Tisbury West Tisbury Nantucket	Michael Cohn, O.D. Central 508-832-9392 drlucohn@aol.com Acton Ashburnham Ashby Ayer Athol Auburn Barre Berlin Bolton Boxborough Boylston Brookfield Charlton Clinton Douglas Dudley East Brookfield Fitchburg Gardner Grafton Groton Hardwick Harvard Holden Hubbardston Hudson Lancaster Leicester Leominster Littleton Lunenburg Marlborough Maynard Millbury New Braintree North Brookfield Northborough Northbridge Oakham Oxford Paxton Pepperell Petersham Phillipston Princeton Royalston Rutland Shrewsbury Shirley Southborough Southbridge Spencer Sterling Stow Sturbridge Sutton Templeton Townsend Upton Uxbridge Warren Webster West Boylston West Brookfield Westborough Westminster Winchendon Worcester
David Metsch , OD Northshore 317-448-1758 drummingdoc@comcast.net Amesbury Andover Beverly Billerica Boxford Carlisle Chelmsford Danvers Dracut Dunstable Essex Georgetown Gloucester Groveland Hamilton Haverhill Ipswich Lawrence Lowell Lynn Lynnfield Manchester by the sea Marblehead Merrimac Methuen Middleton Nahant Newbury Newburyport North Andover North Reading Peabody Rockport Rowley Salem Salisbury Swampscott Topsfield Tewksbury Tyngsborough Wenham Westford West Newbury Willmington	Jeanne Hopkins, O.D. Norfolk 617-770-1505 jhopkins@manetchc.org Avon Bellingham Blackstone Braintree Canton Cohasset Foxborough Franklin Hingham Holbrook Hopedale Hull Mendon Millville Milton Norfolk Plainville Quincy Randolph Sharon Stoughton Walpole Weymouth Wrentham	Kani Brown, O.D. Western 413-584-6666 kbyrdbrown@gmail.com Adams Alford Becket Cheshire Clarksburg Dalton Egremont Florida Great Barrington Hancock Hinsdale Lanesborough Lee Lenox Monterey Mt. Washington New Ashford New Marlborough North Adams Otis Peru Pittsfield Richmond Sandisfield Savoy Sheffield Stockbridge Tyringham Washington West Stockbridge Williamstown Windsor Ashfield Bernardston Buckland Charlemont Colrain Conway Deerfield Erving Gill Greenfield Hawley Heath Leverett Leyden Monroe Montague New Salem Northfield Orange Rowe Shelburne Shutesbury Sunderland Warwick Wendell Whately Agawam Blandford Brimfield Chester Chicopee East Longmeadow Granville Hampden Holland Holyoke Longmeadow Ludlow Monson Montgomery Palmer Russell Southwick Springfield Holland Wales West Springfield Westfield Wilbraham Amherst Belchertown Chesterfield Cummington Easthampton Goshen Granby Hadley Hatfield Huntington Middlefield Northampton Pelham Plainfield South Hadley Southampton Ware Westhampton Williamsburg Worthington
Kristen Brown, O.D. Metrowest Brownk@neco.edu Ashland Dedham Dover Framingham Holliston Hopkinton Medfield Medway Milford Millis Natick Needham Newton Norwood Sherborn Sudbury Waltham Watertown Watertown Wayland Wellesley Weston Westwood		Jessica Crooker, O.D. South Shore JCrooker@gmail.com Attleboro Abington Berkley Bridgewater Brockton Carver Dighton Duxbury East Bridgewater Easton Fall River Freetown Halifax Hanover Hanson Kingston Lakeville Mansfield Marion Marshfield Mattapoisett Middleborough North Attleborough Norton Norwell Pembroke Plymouth Plympton Raynham Rehoboth Rochester Rockland Scituate Seekonk Somerset Swansea Taunton Wareham West Bridgewater Whitman
Maryke Neiberg, O.D., Dean of Optometry MCPHS School of Optometry Representative 508-373-5707 Maryke.neiberg@mcphs.edu	Howard Purcell, O.D., F.A.A.O., President New England College of Optometry Representative 617-266-6243 Purcellh@neco.edu