Dr. Scott Amoruso, OD

Dr. Scott Amoruso graduated with honors from Northern Illinois University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in biology and the equivalent of a minor in chemistry, then earned his Doctor of Optometry with honors from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University in 2016. He completed a residency at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Hospital from 2016 to 2017, focused on ocular disease, low vision and polytrauma with elements of vision therapy. He practises at the Old Town office on North Wells Street in Chicago.

A VA residency of that kind is unusually broad. Ocular disease there means glaucoma, diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration managed at a volume most new graduates do not see. Low vision means helping patients who will not get a better prescription use what remains. Polytrauma means veterans whose vision problems follow a brain injury, where the eyes are healthy and the fault is in how they aim, focus and move together.

He is a member of the American Academy of Optometry, the American Optometric Association, the Illinois Optometric Association and Beta Sigma Kappa, the optometric honour society. At the Old Town practice he runs comprehensive examinations for adults and children, fits glasses and contact lenses, and treats dry eye, infections and injuries alongside the longer-term monitoring.

He became an optometrist, in his own words, to help people see the world better, and his favourite part of the job is going through all the options available to a particular patient rather than handing over a single answer. Outside work he hikes, goes to live music, spends time at the beach and snowboards.