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The professor of biological and vision sciences is committed to evolving the way optometrists are educated. If you’ve ever looked at your syllabus and saw Visual Perception: A Clinical Orientation or Geometrical and Visual Optics: A Clinical Introduction as your assigned text, you have Dr. Steven Schwartz to thank. The professor of biological and vision […]

June 6, 2019

SUNY Optometry’s Kali Berrios Receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

ALBANY, June 5, 2019 — Kali Berrios, an optometric technician for the contact lens service at SUNY College of Optometry’s University Eye Center (UEC), has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service. The Chancellor’s awards are presented annually to faculty and staff in seven categories: Faculty Service, Librarianship, Professional Service, Scholarship and […]

June 5, 2019

SUNY Optometry Alumna Dr. Nicole Poon Receives AAOF, Johnson & Johnson Award for Contact Lens Care

ORLANDO, June 4, 2019 — SUNY Optometry congratulates alumna Dr. Nicole Poon as she receives the 2019 Johnson & Johnson Vision Award of Excellence in Contact Lens Patient Care. The award is given by the American Academy of Optometry Foundation to recognize outstanding fourth-year student clinicians who have demonstrated excellent overall knowledge of the contact […]

June 5, 2019

Dr. Pablo De Gracia Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK — Dr. Pablo De Gracia, assistant professor of optometry at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Optometry, presented on vision in a blurred world, including object motion, eye movements and optical blur, during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Tuesday, June 4. Dr. De Gracia divides his time between teaching and […]

June 4, 2019

SUNY Optometry NextGen: Dr. Reynolds Ablordeppey

Recently honored by one of the top optometry organizations, he must now decide which career path to take after the College. If there is a checklist of the personal and intellectual skills needed to be a successful optometrist, Dr. Reynolds Ablordeppey had them all by high school. Good listener, empathetic, problem solver, interested in math, […]

June 3, 2019

SPECtrum Helps SUNY Optometry, University Eye Center Provide Better Care for Transgender Patients

In the leadup to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the student group works to improve patient care for the LGBTQ community. In 2016, SUNY Optometry committed to the Diversity and Inclusion Master Plan, which was created to support a “learning and working environment built on understanding, acceptance, respect and valuing the beliefs of […]

May 24, 2019

Scholarly Activities, Winter 2018 through Spring 2019

Publications Akopian A, Kumar S, Ramakrishnan H, Viswanathan S, Bloomfield SA. Amacrine cells coupled to ganglion cells via gap junctions are highly vulnerable in glaucomatous mouse retinas. J Comp Neurol. 2019 Jan 1;527(1):159-173. doi: 10.1002/cne.24074. Epub 2016 Jul 25. PMID: 27411041 Bereshpolova Y, Stoelzel C, Chuyi S, Alonso JM, Swadlow HA (2019) Activation of a […]

May 23, 2019

SUNY Optometry’s 2019 Commencement Recap

NEW YORK, May 23, 2019 – The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry held its 45th commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 23. Hundreds gathered at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan to witness the College grant the OD, PhD and MS in vision science and advanced certificate in optometry business management. […]

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