Andrew Bruce was a Technical Advisor and Contributing Editor for Optical Training Institute’s Optician Development Program: Contact Lens course. Part of this role included ensuring all content is technically accurate and presented in a manner that is easily understood by students.

Andrew is a Washington State Licensed Dispensing Optician and Contact Lens Fitting Specialist. He holds a Masters in both Ophthalmic Optics and Contact Lens Technology, and has over 25 years of experience in private practice and management.

Andrew was named a 2023 and 2024 Contact Lens Institute Visionary and, in 2023, became a Fellow of the Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA). He has served on several ANSI Z80 sub-committees, the Washington State Dispensing Optician Examination Committee, and the Board of Directors for the CLSA, for which he continues to serve as Technical Advisor and Education Consultant.

Andrew loves to teach and is a nationally recognized speaker and industry consultant, and a prolific, internally published technical writer and CE author, having published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is an ABO/NCLE advanced level speaker and approved by the American Optometric Association to provide CPC continuing education, as well as COPE approved speaker.