Dr. Jennifer Liao OD
Associate Professor, Attending Optometrist, New England College of Optometry
Dr. Jennifer Liao is an Associate Professor at the New England College of Optometry (NECO) where she is the head instructor of the Contact Lens course and residency coordinator of the Cornea and Contact Lenses Residency Program. She is also an Attending Optometrist at NECO Center for Eye Care in the Contact Lens Clinic, Myopia Control and Dry Eye service to optometry students and residents. She earned her Doctorate of Optometry with honors from NECO, and completed a residency in Cornea and Contact Lenses the following year.
Prior to joining NECO, Dr. Liao practiced in Toronto, Canada as the Director of Contact Lens Services at the Vision Institute of Canada, and lead optometrist and PROSE provider at the Therapeutic Contact Lens Clinic at the Kensington Eye Institute, a clinic she co-founded in 2016 as Canada's first hospital-based contact lens referral and PROSE clinic.
She currently serves as Secretary of the Contact Lens and Cornea Section of the American Optometric Association, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society, and is a 2025 and 2026 Contact Lens Institute Visionary member.