November 18, 2025
8:00PM - 9:00PM EST
AFOS Tuesday Talk
by Dr. Oscar Corredor
AFOS Member, Dr. Oscar Corredor will present a 1-hr COPE accredited course. Drawing from his overseas military experience, he will present real-world cases and insights into the management of traumatic eye injuries encountered in challenging environments. This course will provide attendees with a foundational understanding of injury types, first-line treatment approaches, and key differential diagnoses in acute ocular trauma care.
Dr. Oscar H. Corredor is an Honor Graduate of the former Apprentice Optometry Specialist School with the U.S. Air Force in February 1990 and served our country in various roles and locations as an optometric technician. He went on to pursue an optometric education and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1999. He continued his education and graduated with honors in 2003 from Northeastern State University College of Optometry in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he earned his Doctor of Optometry degree.
Dr. Corredor was commissioned as an officer in 2003 with the U.S. Army as a recipient of a Health Promotions Scholarship Program and earned his Fellowship with the American Academy of Optometry, Class of 2004. He proudly served our country as a staff optometrist and Chief of Optometry Services at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and deployed twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Afghanistan and Kosovo.
Dr. Corredor separated from the U.S. Army in 2006 to pursue private practice in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa and answered the call to serve our country once again and was commissioned in 2010 through direct accession in the U.S. Air Force. He served as an aerospace optometrist and supervisor with the Air Force in multiple locations, including California, Haiti, Honduras and Mississippi. He completed his military career in July 2019 and moved to the Pensacola area, where he now resides with his wife and two children. During his free time, he loves spending time with his family and friends, playing/coaching soccer, playing blues on the guitar and hanging out at the beach.
He has vast experience in primary eye care and pediatric optometry, contact lenses, co- managing refractive surgery (LASIK and PRK) and traumatic eye injuries. He has lectured on ocular matters at national and international conventions. He is a current member of the AFOS, AOA, and AAO.