Jeffrey Sonsino OD

Jeffrey Sonsino, O.D., FAAO, is a partner in a high-end specialty contact lens and anterior segment practice in Nashville, Tennessee. For over 11 years, he was faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Eye Institute. He is a Diplomate in the Cornea and Contact Lens Section of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), past-chairman of the Contact Lens and Cornea Section of the American Optometric Association (AOA), founding emeritus board member of the Healthcare Alliance for Patient Safety, a fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society, past-president of the Middle Tennessee Optometric Association, the 2017 Gas Permeable Lens Institute (GPLI) practitioner of the year, the 2017 AOA's Advocate of the Year, the 2018 Tennessee Optometric Association's Optometrist of the Year, was elected to the National Academies of Practice in 2022, and received a President's award from the AOA in 2023 for outstanding service to the profession. He also founded Eyeris, a contact lens company founded to nurture the doctor-patient relationship for independent optometrists.