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Dr. Scott Edmonds is the senior partner of Edmonds Eye Associates in Philadelphia and a member of the medical staff at Jefferson/Magee/Moss Rehabilitation Hospital. He is the Emeritus Co-Director of the Low Vision, Contact Lens and Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service at Wills Eye Hospital. He is the former Chief Eyecare Officer at United Healthcare. He is a clinical professor at Western University of Health Sciences- College of Optometry, a member of the adjunct faculty of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus/Drexel University and a member of the Allied Medical staff of the Lankenau Hospital.  He has written and lectured extensively on clinical and public health topics. 

A 1976 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a1980 graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Dr. Edmonds is a past President of the Philadelphia Optometric Society, the Chester Delaware Optometric Society and the 1988 President of the Pennsylvania Optometric Association. On the national level, he has served as the Chairman of a number of committees for the American Optometric Association and has completed two terms on the American Council on Optometric Education.

Dr. Edmonds was honored by the Pennsylvania College of Optometry as the Preceptor of the Year in 1983. He was honored as the Optometrist of the Year in 1985 by the Philadelphia Optometric Society and again in 2008 by the Chester-Delaware Optometric Society. He was the honored as the Pennsylvania Optometric Association Optometrist of the Year in 2008. He was 2015 APEX Award winner for Publication Excellence in the category of Social Media Blog Content and the 2016 winner of the Dr. Jerry P. Davidoff Memorial Award for Leadership Service.