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Mort Soroka, Ph.D. (Download CV)
Dr. Mort Soroka is the director of the Center for Vision Care Policy, State University of New York, an academic health policy research unit. He is also a professor of public health at the University’s College of Optometry where he teaches courses in health care policy and delivery. Dr. Soroka is a visiting scholar at New York University and the executive director of the Optometric Society of New York, the local affiliate of the New York State Optometric Association. Dr. Soroka has served on the Health Systems Agency of New York and the vision care section of the American Public Health Association.
From 1979 to 1987 he was the associate director for the University Optometric Center, the clinical facility of the College of Optometry. Dr. Soroka has contributed chapters to textbooks on public health optometry and authored more than 50 articles in the optometric and public health literature. He serves as a reviewer and referee for several optometric journals. Dr. Soroka has been project director for numerous grants and contracts. Most recently he completed two studies, one entitled Optical Clinical Management of Eye Problems: the role of Optometrists in Managed Care Plans and the other titled Alternative Arrangements for the Delivery of Eye Care Services within Managed Care Organizations. Both studies included the collection of clinical data from patient charts and were similar in nature to the collection of patient diagnoses required under the Request for Proposal. Dr. Soroka received his master’s degree in public administration from New York University and his Ph.D. degree from the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
David Krumholz
Dr. Krumholz is an Associate Clinical Professor at the SUNY State College of Optometry where he is the instructor of record for the course Clinical Medicine & Systemic Disease. He is involved with quality improvement activities in Primary Care and other services at the College. He is also conducting several research projects involving various drug combinations, and in the area of tear composition and its relationship to certain systemic conditions. Dr. Krumholz is an Attending in the Refraction Clinic at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary where he teaches refractive technique to first year ophthalmology residents. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is a teaching hospital affiliated with New York Medical College, where he holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology Appointment. In private practice, Dr. Krumholz is associated with an ophthalmic surgeon in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in secondary and tertiary vitreo-retinal care. He lectures extensively in the areas of ocular and systemic diseases.
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