Profile Feature: Priya Chopra, Associate Optometrist at Visioncall

It was on the advice of a friend that 27-year-old optometrist Priya Chopra’s career with Visioncall began. Booking a ‘shadow day’ allowed Leicester-based Priya to trial a ‘day in the life’ with the care home eye health specialists, and after a day under the tutelage of Visioncall’s lead optometrist, Vic Khurana, Priya decided to make the leap from her role with a high street chain of opticians, into domiciliary care, becoming a Visioncall Associate Optometrist in early 2019.

“I’m always looking to develop my skillset, and I just thought ‘Why limit yourself?’”, Priya explains. “This side of optometry is very overlooked, but it’s hugely rewarding. On my shadow day with Vic, he gave a patient a new reading prescription, and to see how her face lit up, it really struck me that something as small as a new pair of glasses can make a huge difference to someone’s life.”