Join us in person on Sunday, September 11 from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Admission Options: Full Package: $190 or A la carte: $80 per course Continental Breakfast & Lunch Included. Each course is COPE Accredidated & CE Broker (Florida) Approved CE Credit. This program will only be available for…
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As part of the College’s Homebound Program, he travels the city to take quality eye care directly to the elderly and disabled. NEW YORK, N.Y. (November 25, 2019) –Although Bryan Wolynski may be an Oceanside, New York-native, he credits his time in Florida with helping him forge a deeper, more meaningful…
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The SUNY Optometry alumna is excited to work with the Vision Rehabilitation Service. Call it a homecoming: This fall, Shephali Patel, OD, MS ’10 returned to her alma mater to work with the vision rehabilitation service, providing low vision and head trauma services. “The right tools and techniques make it…
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From her work in ocular disease to molding the next generation of optometrists, this alumna turned assistant clinical professor thrives helping patients and students transform their lives. As a girl, Dr. Daria Borah, ‘16 wanted to be a veterinarian. “At some point or another throughout my childhood years, my family…
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Registration Scheduled to open in July Admission Options: A la carte: $80 per course Continental Breakfast Included This program is only for in-person registration and is open to ALL doctors! COPE Accredited & CE Broker (Florida) Approved CE Credit. Program Agenda 7:30 AM – 8: 00 AM – Check-in and…
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Mark Ossi grew up in England where “footy” is everything. He thought he would become a professional soccer player and was even recruited for a semi-professional club at age 12. Luckily for the pre-optometry students who count on his test prep guidance, this year’s recipient of the Esther J. Werner…
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Publications, Presentations, Lectures for May 2016 Backus, BT (2016). Progress report on the use of visual deprivation to treat amblyopia. Paper presented at the Patagonia Perceptual Learning Workshop, El Calafate, Argentina (April). Backus, BT (2016). Use of 10-day visual deprivation to treat amblyopia in humans: an early progress report. Invited…
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Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks. Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark-centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe,…
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