Dr. Bart Pemberton

Vision

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Over the past two years, we’ve seen a school board more focused on politics and mandates than on education, more focused on teaching students what to think rather than how to think. We’ve seen a school board that looks at parents as obstacles to be overcome rather than partners in achieving the best academic results possible for their children.

45% of CFSD children are not proficient in math.

37% of CFDS children are not proficient in reading.

I and two other candidates, Bill Morgan and Grace Jasin, will change that if elected. We will prioritize reading, writing, math, civics, science, and the arts. Not politics. We will prioritize education for all children, and we will collaborate with parents to meet their needs in school.

We will focus on results, not rhetoric. We will focus on curriculum transparency, not curriculum secrecy. We will focus on the health and well-being of all the students, and that means proper school security and keeping parents informed of their children’s performance and behavior in the classroom.

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Bio

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I have been practicing as an optometrist in Tucson, AZ since 1999. I specialize in contact lenses for the correction of irregular, diseased, or traumatized corneas, as well as primary care of diseases and disorders of the eye.

I'm a product of public school education from elementary school all the way through undergraduate and graduate/professional school. My wife and I have been active parents with the schools our children have attended in the district since they started kindergarten. I was a member of the School Site council at Manzanita, actively involved with the Family Faculty Organization (FFO) at Manzanita Elementary School (Chairman of Handy Helpers Committee). I'm a past president of the AZ Optometric Association, a long-time volunteer at a local church, and I have served the community as a part of the Knights of Columbus. I am also the Scoutmaster for a local Boy Scout Troop.

I had three of my children attending schools in the Catalina Foothills school district until recently. The turmoil of the past two years resulted in my wife and I moving two of them to other schools and eventually in my decision to run for school board.

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Education

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• Residency in Hospital Based Optometry at the Amarillo VAMC in Amarillo, TX [affiliated with Northeastern State University College Of Optometry in Tahlequah, OK (7/1/1995 to 6/30/1996)]

• University of California at Berkeley, School of Optometry Degree: Doctor of Optometry (OD) (1991 to 1995)

• University of California at Riverside Degree: BA in Biology (1987 to 1991)

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Experience

• Edmonds, Husz, and Pemberton Eye Center, PC (1999 to Present)

• President of the AZ Optometric Association (2021-2022)

• Assistant Adjunct Clinical Professor, Pacific University College of Optometry (2001 to 2017)

• Member of the AZ Optometric Association Board (2016 to Present)

• Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (12/2000 to Present)

• Member of Contact Lens & Cornea Section of AAO (2016? to Present)

• Vice President Southern AZ Optometric Society (1998, 2016)

• Past President of Southern AZ Optometric Society (1999, 2017)

• American Optometric Association (1997 to Present)

• Arizona Optometric Association (1997 to Present)

Lectures

• Bronstein Seminar in Scottsdale, AZ 2015 “Contact Lenses For Complicated Corneas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

• Larger Diameter RGP’s for Irregular Corneas (Southern Arizona Optometric Society) January 2009

• Bronstein Seminar in Scottsdale, AZ 2008 “Is Keratoconus a True Ectasia?”

• Bronstein Seminar in Scottsdale, AZ 2006 “Conquering

• Cantankerous Corneas with Contact Lenses”

Civic Involvement
 

• Knights of Columbus 2004 to Present

• Scoutmaster, Troop 007, Tucson, AZ Jan 2022-Present

• Cub Scout Den Leader 2015 to 2020

• Republican Precinct Committeeman 2011 to 2018

• Nominating Committee for Trial Court Appointments Commission (Pima County District 1) 2013 to Present

Publications

Visifit Toric Feasability Study, Protocol No. VS-20-01
Sponsor: Plexus Optix, Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Service Optical Group, Inc.

2021

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Customary practices in the monitoring of dry eye disease in Sjogren's syndrome.
Journal of Optometry

(Acs M, et al. [Acs M, Caffery B, Barnett M, Edmonds C, Johnson- Tong L, Maharaj R, Pemberton B, Papinski D, Harthan J, Srinivasan S])

2018
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Sjogren’s Syndrome in optometric practices in North America.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, Volume 41, Issue 6

December 2018
Pages 518-516
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The Presentation of Sjogren’s Disease in North American Optometric Practices.
Poster Presentation American Academy of Optometry

(Harthan J, Srinivasan S, Acs M, Barnett M, Edmonds C, Johnson-Tong L, Maharaj R, Pemberton B, Papinski D, Caffery B)

2016

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Comparison of anterior chamber depth of normal and keratoconus eyes using Scheimpflug photography.
Eye Contact Lens

(Edmonds CR, Wung SF, Pemberton B, Surrett S.)

2009
May;35(3):120-2
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Clinical Investigation of Acuvue Oasys
Presbyopia lenses

2008

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Comparative Study of Patient Preference
Ciba O2 Optix vs. Acuvue Advance with Hydraclear contact lenses

05/04 to 06/04

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Corneal endothelial cell count in keratoconus patients after contact lens wear.
Eye & Contact Lens.

(Edmonds CR, Wung SF, Husz MJ, Pemberton B)

2004
Jan;30(1):54-8
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Clinical evaluation of an HP-guar gellable lubricant eye drop for the relief of dryness of the eye.
Curr Eye Res.

(Christensen MT, Cohen S, Rinehart J, Akers F, Pemberton B, Bloomenstein M, Lesher M, Kaplan D, Meadows D, Meuse P, Hearn C, Stein JM.)

2004
Jan;28(1):55-62
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Post-approval study
Bausch & Lomb Purevision contact lenses

08/02 to 12/03

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Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III Clinical trial
Alcon involving a new artificial tear: Now known as Systane

12/01 to 04/02