Excerpt from ICO Matters, Summer 2023 – ICO and the OD/MD Alliance
All kidding and nostalgia aside, in 1997, Charles Mullen, OD, ICO’s fourth president, forged an alliance with the neighboring University of Chicago Hospital and Department of Ophthalmology that has flourished in the decades since. For over twenty-five years, the two institutions have worked to improve care and access to services for Chicago’s South Side that Dr. Mullen recently described as the ‘gold standard’ of vision care.