Dr. Ansel Johnson is the founder and owner of Vision Salon Eye Care Associates in Blue Island, Illinois.  He received his BA in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University and graduated from the New England College of Optometry. He has completed a post-graduate certificate from the Wharton School of Business Optometry Executive Program.

He is currently an adjunct professor at five optometry school programs. His office services as an externship site for 5 programs as well.  He currently serves on staff at Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Johnson’s office is the first and only in the State of Illinois to incorporate a Nationally Certified Diabetes Self-Management Program within an eye care facility.  He is a certified lifestyle coach for the CDC Diabetes Prevention Program.

Dr. Johnson is a national thought leader and industry consultant in eye care.  Concentrating on eye care technologies, glaucoma, and diabetes management he is a national industry speaker.

In June 2020 Dr. Johnson founded and currently serves as CEO of the Health Living With A Vision Foundation.  The 501c3 foundation has a mission to eliminate health and wellness disparities in underserved communities.

Twice listed in Black Enterprise Magazine as one of America’s top 101 African American doctors, He was honored in a White House ceremony as a Head Start success story for it’s 35th Anniversary.

Dr. Johnson for his professional lifetime is committed to making an impact on the eye care and health care of this country.

Dr. Steven Ferrucci is currently Chief of Optometry at the Sepulveda VA Ambulatory Care Center in North Hills, CA. He is also the Residency Director at his sight, and a Professor at the Southern California College of Optometry/Marshall B. Ketchum University.  Dr. Ferrucci has lectured and published extensively, with a special interest in Diabetes, Diabetic Eye Disease, AMD,  OCT  and Fluorescein Angiography.  He is a fellow in both the American Academy of Optometry and the Optometric Retinal Society, as  well  as Past-president of the ORS and the Founding Chair of the American Academy of Optometry Retinal Special Interest Group. He also serves on the editorial  board for several  optometric  journals, as well as on the  advisory board  for some of the premier companies in eye care.