
Bruce Moore, OD, FAAO
Dr. Moore’s career as a pediatric optometrist has been devoted to studying the vision problems and therapeutic options for young children. He graduated from the New England College of Optometry in 1975 after receiving an undergraduate degree in Biology from Boston University. His optometric career began at the Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Ophthalmology and the Harvard Medical School, where he practiced, taught, and carried out his research interests in pediatric eyecare for 22 years. Dr. Moore assumed the position of the Marcus Professor of Pediatric Studies at the New England College of Optometry in 1997 and served as a Department Chair for over a dozen years. Dr. Moore has published over 250 papers, posters, chapters, and two textbooks on a variety of subjects in pediatric optometry. His text, Eye Care for Infants & Young Children, published in 1997, became the standard textbook in pediatric optometry for students and practitioners for many years.
Dr. Moore has been involved in an array of clinical, research, and public policy efforts involving the vision of children. He has been a leader in efforts to develop broader, more rational, and more effective programs for vision care for children on local, state, national, and international levels. Dr. Moore is Co-Chair of the Children’s Vision Massachusetts Coalition and a member of the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health. He was a founding member and principal investigator in the National Eye Institute funded multi-center research study of vision screening of children, the Vision in Preschoolers (VIP) Study, which aimed to develop an efficient and effective battery of vision screening procedures that are applicable to broad use in preschoolers throughout the United States, and in more recent phases of the study to evaluate the relationship between vision and learning in preschoolers. He received the Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health from Prevent Blindness in 2016.
He has been working on a number of international vision care projects (in Vietnam, Mongolia, Israel, Nicaragua, El Salvador, China, South Africa, Ghana and throughout Europe) over many years, helping to further the development of optometric teaching, clinical care and research in collaboration with new and existing programs in the developing and developed world. Dr. Moore partially retired from full time faculty status at the New England College of Optometry and is currently Professor Emeritus at the College. He remains active in his professional career.