Meet Dr. Stephanie Woo
Founder of Woo U & Advocate for Modern Optometric Education
Why Woo U?
For more than 15 years, I’ve dedicated my life’s work to making a meaningful difference through optometry. While caring for patients has always been at the heart of what I do, my passion has expanded beyond the exam room into education. Through Woo U, I’ve been able to help transform how eye care practitioners learn, grow, and earn continuing education.
Advancing Optometric Education Through Purpose and Practice
Speaking
Dr. Stephanie Woo has presented nearly 200 lectures around the world on various topics of optometry - most notably practice management, contact lenses, specialty contact lenses, starting and growing specialty lens practices, scleral lens billing and coding, amniotic membranes, and anterior segment ocular disease .
Coaching & Consulting
Over the past 15+ years, Dr. Woo has learned how to lead and operate optometry clinics at the highest level. She has also incorporated specialty contact lenses into practice and perfected a streamlined system to manage scleral lens patients with maximum efficiency and profitability.
About Dr. Stephanie Woo
Dr. Stephanie L. Woo was born and raised in Lake Havasu City, AZ. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arizona with a degree in Biology Science Education. She graduated with honors from the Southern California College of Optometry. She completed a Cornea and Contact Lens Residency at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where she was trained to fit highly irregular corneas.
She was the recipient of the Gas Permeable Lens Institute Award for Clinical Excellence and also the John R. Griffin Award for Excellence in Vision Therapy. Dr. Woo is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the Scleral Lens Society.
She authored the Gas Permeable Lens Expert column in Review of Contact Lenses. She is a frequent author to several professional publications including Contact Lens Spectrum, Contact Lens and Cornea section of the American Optometric Association, Review of Cornea and Contact Lenses, and Review of Optometric Business.
She is an active GPLI advisory board member. Dr. Woo is a Past President of the Scleral Lens Education Society, a non-profit organization committed to teaching the art and science of scleral lenses to practitioners.
Dr. Woo is an adjunct professor at Midwestern University. Dr. Woo enjoys lecturing around the world on the subject of contact lenses and anterior segment ocular disease.
Dr. Woo owns the Contact Lens Institute of Nevada, a clinic dedicated entirely to custom contact lenses. In her spare time, Dr. Woo is an avid wine collector and is a Level 2 WSET Sommelier.
Dr. Woo is the founder of Woo University, a 501-c3 non-profit organization committed to providing high quality continuing education to eye care professionals around the world.
Key Accolades
Cornea and Contact Lens Residency Trained
Fellow of the Scleral Lens Society
Past President of the Scleral Lens Education Society
Only practitioner in Nevada certified to fit the EyePrintProsthetic
Only clinic in Nevada offering sMap 3D corneo-scleral topography
Only clinic in Nevada offering Ovitz higher order abberation lens technology
Delivers continuing education on the topic of specialty contact lenses and anterior segment disease worldwide
To date, has successfully managed over 2,000 specialty contact lens patients
Key opinion leader for major contact lens companies
Highly skilled in fitting complex corneal conditions such as keratoconus, refractive surgery complications, post corneal transplant, ocular surface conditions (severe dry eye disease, Sjogren’s, graft-vs-host, unresolving epithelial defects), corneal scarring, ocular trauma, prosthetic contact lenses, and much more!
Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
Published author to Contact Lens Spectrum, Review of Optometry, Review of Cornea and Contact Lens, Review of Optometric Business and EyeWitness
Midwestern University - College of Optometry Adjunct Faculty Member
Recipient of the Gas Permeable Lens Institute’s Award for Clinical Excellence
Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Southern California College of Optometry (2024)
Recipient of the “Educator the Year” Award from Nevada Optometric Association (2022 and 2024)