Experience

Managing Optometrist, Carillon Vision Care (AEG), Glenview, IL — 2021-December 2025

Directed clinical operations post-private equity acquisition (Acuity Eyecare Group) ensuring seamless transition and high patient retention while maintaining a strong focus on advanced myopia management, ocular disease, and specialty contact lens services.

Owner/Optometrist, Carillon Vision Care, Glenview, IL — 2011-2021

Revitalized the longest-standing private optometric practice on Chicago's North Shore, growing its operations over 400% over 10 years to become the largest single-location practice in the region. The practice was recognized for clinical excellence in myopia management, ocular disease, and specialty contact lens care, leading to a successful acquisition by a private equity group (AEG) in 2021.

Leadership and Consulting

Speaker/Consultant, Coopervision Specialty Eyecare, Pleasanton, CA — 2016-Present

Serves on the Professional Affairs Committee, providing subject matter expertise and lecturing to optometrists nationwide on specialty contact lenses and myopia management.

Speaker/Consultant, Topcon Healthcare, Oakland, NJ — 2021-2023

Consult on professional affairs, delivering nationwide lectures to optometrists on myopia management and advanced ophthalmic equipment.

Member Director, IDOC, Norwalk, CT — 2012-2021

Led and oversaw member initiatives for the greater Chicagoland area, facilitating local practice management roundtables and collaboration. Delivered multiple presentations on practice management and clinical topics at regional events and the National Conference.

President, Chicago Society of the Illinois Optometric Association, Chicago, IL - 2013-2016

Led the regional chapter, setting strategic goals, managing board operations, and serving as the primary liaison between local members and the state association (IOA).

Awards/Accolades

Illinois Optometry Association - Young OD of the Year, 2017

Vision Monday - Optometric Business Innovator Award, 2014

Research and Clinical Authority

Principal Investigator for the “MiSight 1 Day Post-Approval Study for Effectiveness and Visual Symptoms” (2023-Present)

Top prescribing MiSight Optometrist in the United States (2020-Present)

Principal Investigator for the “Comfort of Orthokeratology Lenses Fit Using a New Software” (2022-2023)

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN — Doctorate of Optometry, 2008

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS — Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, 2004

Publications and Presentations

“Myopia Management 101: What You REALLY Need to Know” 2 Hour COPE Certified CE.

“Upgrading your Myopia Management Practice: Soft Contact Lens Modalities & Fee Structures” 1 Hour COPE Certified CE

“Science Rules: Practical Applications of Diagnostic Equipment in Your Myopia Management Practice” Presentations at various Nationwide Optometric Conferences (2022-2023)

Various CooperVision-sponsored MiSight and Myopia Management Presentations (over 60+ presentations nationwide). Including various Doctor Dinners, Illinois Optometric Society Meetings, VEW, AAO National Meeting, AOA National Meeting, SECO Conference, IDOC National Conference, GSLS, and “MiSight Certification Lectures” (2018-Present)

“Dream It, Do It, Dr. Andrew Neukirch” IDOC Promotional Video. December 2019.

Multiple MiSight Educational Videos sponsored by CooperVision. 2020-2022

“Measuring Pediatric Myopia with Dr. Neukirch” Educational Video sponsored by Topcon Healthcare. (July 2022)Affiliations and Service

Illinois Optometric Association

American Optometric Association

American Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control

American Academy of Optometry

Illinois Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity

References available upon request