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As part of its mission, SUNY Optometry, under the auspices of the Graduate Center for Vision Research, engages in a variety of basic, translational and clinical research activities. This “Research Spotlight” series is designed to briefly highlight the diversity of research that takes place at the College. The Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial—Attention & Reading Trial […]

November 13, 2015

Getting Relief From Dry Eyes

Dry Eye Syndrome is a common, often chronic, condition that can cause lots of discomfort. Dr. Harriette Canellos, the director of the UEC’s Referral Service and associate clinical professor at SUNY College of Optometry, explains: What is dry eye? Dry Eye Syndrome is a common and often chronic condition that affects approximately 25-30 million […]

October 30, 2015

Smoking and Your Eye and Vision Health

By now, most of us are well aware of how bad smoking is for our health. However, the specific risks that smoking poses for our eyes and vision is not so well known. Dr. Julia Appel, associate clinical professor and a member of the primary care service at the University Eye Center, provides a closer look at the […]

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, […]

October 20, 2015

Scholarly Activities: October/November 2015

Here’s a look at some of the recent activities of our faculty: October Dr. Steven Schwartz (pictured, left) received the Michael G. Harris Family Award for Excellence in Optometric Education from the American Optometric Foundation. Dr. Matthew Bovenzi, a 2014-2015 East New York resident at the College and current faculty member, received the Douglas W. […]

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 […]

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