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She is clear that there is nothing old-fashioned about getting people in the right glasses. For more than 25 years, Nancy Kirsch has been an integral part of SUNY Optometry’s community. As director of the Essilor Eyewear Center, she oversees the division of the University Eye Center (UEC) that provides the most traditional of optometric […]

May 8, 2018

Dr. Hadas Ben Eli Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK CITY — Dr. Hadas Ben Eli, lecturer of optometry and vision science at Hadassah Academic College, presented on environmental and infectious exposures, immune biomarkers and genetic factors in dry eye syndrome, Sjorgen’s syndrome and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Wednesday, April 25. Dr. Ben Eli […]

May 8, 2018

Meet the Board: Thomas Farrell on His Decades-Long Commitment to SUNY Optometry

The Optometric Center of New York board member believes in the mission—and expansive future—of the College. In 2021, SUNY Optometry will celebrate its 50th anniversary. One of the participants will be Thomas Farrell, who has been a part of the College community for nearly half of that time. Mr. Farrell is currently vice president of […]

May 7, 2018

Meet the Board: Alumni Association President Dr. Denise Whittam

Her relationship with optometry began when she was a child, but it wasn’t love at first sight. Dr. Denise Whittam desperately needed glasses in the second grade, but refused to admit it for fear of having to wear what she called “FDNY union glasses.” She kept her secret for five years, memorizing the eye chart […]

May 4, 2018

SUNY Optometry Alumnus Dr. Matthew Geller’s Mission: Create Better Optometrists

Dr. Matthew Geller has founded three companies, which is three more than the average person can claim. What makes that achievement even more remarkable is that two were created while he was still a student at the SUNY College of Optometry. And even more noteworthy is that all have been met with industry-wide success. Dr. […]

May 4, 2018

Focus on New Faces @ SUNY Optometry: Shelley Horwitz

The Care Coordination for Patients with Vision Loss program offers joint vision and social services for patients often relegated to the margins. The SUNY Optometry community embarked on a new journey to provide coordinated vision and social services for visually impaired older adults and low-income children, in coordination with Stony Brook University’s School of Social […]

May 3, 2018

Vivid Vision to Employ Patented Binocular Vision Treatment Device Invented by SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Benjamin Backus, Dr. Kenneth Ciuffreda, Dr. Diana Ludlam

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 2018 — Vivid Vision, a San Francisco-based eye care start-up, has signed an exclusive license agreement with The Research Foundation for The State University of New York to employ a new device to treat lazy eye and other disorders of binocular vision invented by Dr. Benjamin Backus, an associate professor at […]

May 2, 2018

Meet the Board: Dr. Ronald Millman

While some come to the field of optometry by chance, Dr. Ronald Millman was born with it in his blood. He is the lead optometrist at Millman Eye Associates—the practice his father founded in 1941, making it the first of its kind in all of Morris County, New Jersey. That family tie led Dr. Millman […]

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