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VSP Vision, SOLN, and APME Announce 2023 Premier Student Business Challenge Winner

VSP Vision™, along with the Student Optometric Leadership Network (SOLN) and the Association of Practice Management Educators (APME), announces the winner of the 2023 Premier Student Business Challenge: Dr. Evan Sveinson, 2023 graduate of Midwestern University, Arizona College of Optometry.

To apply for the scholarship, students participating on their institution’s Private Practice Club board had to submit a business plan that described their professional and personal plan for private practice ownership. Three finalists presented their business plans at the 2023 SOLN Student Private Practice Leadership Conference in June.

Evan won for his business plan to open a pediatric practice and was awarded a $10,000 scholarship, plus a travel grant to the 2023 SOLN conference. His practice’s mission statement of “Equality driven by vision” focused not only on practice growth, but on providing free access to eye care to those in need.

The Premier Student Business Challenge scholarship was created in 2022 to support optometry students interested in a path to private practice ownership. This scholarship is one of many new offerings from VSP Premier Edge Career Support to help give doctors a competitive edge at every stage of their career journey.

Over the last ten years, VSP Vision has provided more than $3 million in scholarship support to optometry students. Learn more about how VSP is supporting the next generation of optometrists here.