August 7, 2020 Panelists seek sustainable steps for increasing minority representation in the field The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry hosted “Seeking Solutions – Race in Optometry: An Honest Conversation on Optometric Education,” part two of a live webinar series covering the issues and obstacles that…
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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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New York, NY: SUNY College of Optometry received the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual Health Professions HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. health…
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As it prepares for the future, the University Eye Center has invested over a million dollars to develop a series of electronic solutions that will enable the clinic to manage its patient care activities more efficiently. The new system, which came online June 1, includes a new electronic health records system that allows…
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The associate director of continuing professional education gets optometrists back in the classroom. Fourteen years ago, Betsy Torres started working at SUNY Optometry as a temporary assistant in patient financial services equipped with organizational experience, which is why she was promoted to clinical manager of the ocular disease service in…
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Publications Alonso JM, Swadlow HA (2017) Thalamocortical interactions for sensory processing. Neuroscience Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Online Publication Date: Feb 2017 DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.112 Del Águila-Carrasco AJ, Marín-Franch I, Bernal-Molina P, Esteve-Taboada JJ, Kruger PB, Montés-Micó R, López-Gil N (2017) Accommodation responds to optical vergence and not defocus blur alone. Investigative Ophthalmology…
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