Is your child’s prescription progressing at a high rate? SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Xiaoying Zhu discusses how University Eye Center’s Myopia Control Center helps slow the progression of myopia, or nearsightedness.
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WATCH Telemundo 47: Clínica móvil ofrece servicios de salud en NYC NEW YORK, April 16, 2019 — The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry and Community Healthcare Network (CHN) today unveiled Eye Mobile, a mobile health unit, during a ribbon cutting ceremony at CHN’s Washington Heights health center. The partnership will…
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September 1, 2020 Online tool called Daily Doc connects ODs and employers seeking to fill fluctuating schedules New York, NY— This spring COVID-19 disrupted the optometric profession in unprecedented ways, leaving many doctors to either close or scale back their practice to urgent care and telehealth visits only. As quarantine…
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DR. STANLEY EISENBERG MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION DR. WILLIAM FEINBLOOM MEMORIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CLINICAL PROFICIENCY IN LOW VISION DR. MAX COHEN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR VOLUNTEER COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY SERVICE The journey to the optometric profession verged in many directions for Jonathan Pham before…
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When Dr. Scott Bushinger was 9 years old, his father required emergency retinal surgery. “It was kind of a dramatic, made-for-tv-movie type of moment, as he held my hand from his hospital bed while he was temporarily blinded from gauze over his eyes after surgery,” he explains. “He told me…
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (May 20, 2020) —The timeless idiom, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” is clearly the case for Samuel Stack whose parents are eye doctors and proud alum of SUNY College of Optometry. In keeping with optometric family tradition, he also plans to marry fellow graduate…
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NEW YORK, N.Y. (May 15, 2020) —Rebecca Aquije’s very first career choice wasn’t necessarily her own. “As children of immigrants can probably relate, I used to want to be a doctor because my parents encouraged me to be one,” said Aquije, whose family is from Peru. After a few years…
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For some people, allergy season can mean red, itchy, irritated eyes. The University Eye Center’s chief of Advanced Care, Dr. Joseph Stamm, explains what to do if you suffer from seasonal allergies: What are some of the eye issues people get when suffering from seasonal allergies? The classic symptoms of…
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