Joseph Trachtman, O.D., Ph.D. is one of the approximately 60 optometrists world-wide, who has earned the status of F.C.O.V.D.-A, and one of the few in private practice with this distinction. Dr. Trachtman has an international reputation in offering visual rehabilitation, neurofeedback for vision (biofeedback), and optometric vision therapy. In addition to being a pioneer in sports vision, he is the world's expert in biofeedback applications for vision problems. Based on NASA research, Dr. Trachtman has invented biofeedback devices for a variety of vision problems: relaxation and reeducation of the ciliary muscle, nearsightedness, farsightedness, presbyopia, strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, and vision related to TBI, PTSD, and stroke. Dr. Trachtman provides personal attention to all his patients.

He has been interested in vision training since he was 7 years old, and at the age of 16 decided to become an optometrist to provide vision training to improve people's vision.

EDUCATION:
• O.D.
  Pennsylvania College of Optometry
  


• Comprehensive Clinical Internship,
  Optometric Center of New York
  


• Residency in Vision and Child Development,
  Optometric Center of New York
  


• M.Ed.
  The Johns Hopkins University
  


• M.Sc.
  State College of Optometry,
  State University of New York


• Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology)
  Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University


• National Library of Medicine, Post-Doctoral Fellowship in computers in Medicine,
  Mt. Sinai Medical School of the City University of New York


• Certificate in Virtual Worlds,
  University of Washington

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Dr. Trachtman has been involved in community service since a young age having learned from his parents, who were very active in various community and charitable organizations. For a major part of his adult life Dr. Trachtman has been a member of Rotary International. He served as President of the Rotary Club of Brooklyn, NY for four terms. While president he initiated several programs for inner city children through the "Pennies for Brooklyn" program. One program was a picnic for the best classes in an inner city junior high school. The teachers told him that the students worked very hard during the year to make their class the best in their grade. The "Internal Ecology" program was a Brooklyn-wide project where students expressed their concept of internal ecology either in writing or graphic art. The winner of the graphic art competition had his/her art posted on a billboard in Downtown Brooklyn.

More recently, after moving to Seattle, Dr. Trachtman has been a volunteer in the "Homecoming for Veterans" program, providing free treatment to veterans with PTSD. As a veteran himself, he is a Life Member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, and a volunteer at the annual Seattle Standdown, which is a program to aid homeless veterans. He is a volunteer responder for the King County Medical Reserve Corps.

Dr. Trachtman teaches, at no charge, adult education classes; both in Seattle and around the United States, and supports various children's charities.

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