About
Nicholas J. Bruns, OD, FAAO
Optometrist · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Leadership roles
- Senior Optometrist and Director of Practice Development · 2020
- Summit Eye Care (Milwaukee / Wauwatosa, WI)
- Source: summiteyewi.com
Industry roles
- Peer to Peer Academy · 2024
- Founder and host · noted Oct 2026
Advisory and leadership roles with eye-care companies, as published by each company, with the month each source was noted. Past roles stay listed: they are part of the record.
Recognition
- MCO Senior Project Award in Pediatrics · 2015
- Michigan College of Optometry
- Provided by the doctor
- Clinical teaching faculty, externship site preceptor
- Michigan College of Optometry (Ferris State University)
- Source: ferris.edu
- MCO Senior Project Award
- Michigan College of Optometry (Ferris State University)
- Source: summiteyewi.com
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Podium & service record
Society leadership
- Wisconsin Optometric Association
- Co-chair, Primary Care Symposium 2021–2022 · Education Committee member 2020
- Milwaukee Optometric Society
- Treasurer 2020
- National Glaucoma Society
- Member (since 2018)
- American Academy of Optometry
- Fellow, American Academy of Optometry (FAAO)
- Intrepid Eye Society
- Member
Editorial
- Ophthalmology Business Minute
- Senior Editor - Optometry Section 2025
- Optometry360
- Editorial Advisory Board 2025
Meeting faculty
- American Academy of Optometry
- The Search for the Holy Grail 2026 · Speaker, American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting (Academy 2026 Anaheim) · The Search for the IOL Holy Grail 2025 · Managing the Premium IOL Patient 2024 · MIGS: Lasers and Blebs and Stents, Oh My! 2024
- American Optometric Association
- IOL FAQs 2026 · Speaker, Optometry's Meeting 2026 · The Changing Premium IOL Landscape 2024
- Innovations in Vision and Eye Care
- Showcase presenter 2024