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October 30, 2015

Diet and Eye Health: What You Should Know

Drs. Barbara Pelletier and Laurie Capogna are optometrists who practice separately in Ontario, Canada. Through their daily interactions with patients, both doctors recognized a distinct lack of knowledge among the public about the relationship between diet and eye and vision health and wanted to do something to address it. After years of research and development, […]

September 24, 2015

Study to Test Light Deprivation as Treatment for Amblyopia in Adults

What would you be willing to do to find a treatment for a persistent vision problem? Dr. Ben Backus, an associate professor at SUNY Optometry, is hoping that adults with amblyopia will be willing to spend ten days in total darkness. Dr. Backus is the principle investigator in a National Institutes of Health-funded study that […]

September 22, 2015

The Clinical Vision Research Center Serves the SUNY Community and Beyond

Since it officially began operation in early 2013, the Clinical Vision Research Center (CVRC) has made a profound and lasting impact, both internally at the College and externally within the community. From helping train eight clinical faculty members and educate a dozen OD students in the principles and practices of clinical research, to providing over […]

June 22, 2015

SUNY Professors Collaborate to Build a Better Brain Probe

The National Institutes of Health calls it America’s next moonshot: a revolutionary, historic effort to view the human brain’s 86 billion neurons in action and transform our understanding of how we think, move, and perceive the world around us. Last year, in its first round of applications, the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies […]

May 22, 2015

SUNY Optometry Helps to Expand Eye and Vision Care in South Africa

The global presence of the SUNY College of Optometry, which has been steadily expanding, now extends into Africa. In 2015, the College entered into a partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa to assist that institution’s Department of Optometry in training South African optometrists in the use of therapeutic drugs. As a […]

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Diet and Eye Health: What You Should Know

Study to Test Light Deprivation as Treatment for Amblyopia in Adults

The Clinical Vision Research Center Serves the SUNY Community and Beyond

SUNY Professors Collaborate to Build a Better Brain Probe

SUNY Optometry Helps to Expand Eye and Vision Care in South Africa