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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 […]

May 2, 2018

Meet the Board: Mrs. Barbara Saltzman

When Barbara Saltzman thinks about the College’s planned new Center for Pediatric Eye Care, she knows she did the right thing in dedicating major funding for a facility that will benefit two vulnerable populations about which she shares a particular concern: children and the visually impaired. She has made a leadership gift to name the […]

May 2, 2018

Meet the Board: Adam Sheer on the Secret of Success

“There is always something to learn and when one listens, opportunities arise,” says the Optometric Center of New York board member. More than once in his life, Adam Sheer has taken action that led him down roads that were unimaginable—with payoffs for both himself and others. If it were not for this pattern, he might […]

May 1, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s New M.S./Residency Program Accredited by ACOE

SUNY Optometry’s new two-year concurrent residency and graduate degree program is now accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education. The program, which merges an accredited residency program with a Master’s degree, is the first of its kind in the country. Typically, residency programs prepare optometrists to specialize in a certain area over a one-year […]

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