From political advocacy to research, the OD/MS candidate aims to carry on the legacy of those who came before her. Meredith Stallone’s academic career has been filled with many triumphs, from her induction into Beta Sigma Kappa Honor Society to winning the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation and Charles and…
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From Ghana to St. Louis to Manhattan, each step along the way has made her a better doctor and teacher. New SUNY College of Optometry assistant clinical professor Dr. Delaram Shirazian did not intend to become an optometrist. As a college student at University of Missouri in Columbia, Dr. Shirazian…
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On April 15, at the 46th annual meeting of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) in St. Louis, Dr. Barry Tannen, adjunct associate clinical professor at SUNY Optometry, was sworn in as president of the organization. We asked Dr. Tannen a few questions about the development of his career…
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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…
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SUNY Optometry has signed an agreement with Gouverneur Health, one of New York City’s largest public hospitals, to help run its eye care clinic. The hospital, which is administered by the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation and located in lower Manhattan, originally opened its doors in 1885 and currently serves…
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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…
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SUNY College of Optometry professor Dr. Mark Rosenfield has conducted extensive research on digital eye strain (which is also known as Computer Vision Syndrome), evaluating both the causes and the potential treatments for a condition that has become increasingly prevalent in our computer-smartphone-tablet-obsessed society. But how harmful is this screen…
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When health care and technology intersect, exciting advances in patient care often follow. And SUNY Optometry alumnus, Dr. Joe Rappon, happens to be right in the middle of what could be a ground-breaking collaboration that might have the potential to help millions of people manage a chronic, often deadly, disease…
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