He is the founding dean of the Kentucky College of Optometry at the University of Pikeville and will step into the role of executive vice president of College of Health Sciences at Tusculum on January 1, 2018. You could say that Andrew R. Buzzelli, OD, MS is a man who…
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The Class of 2018 celebrated a major milestone in their journey to become doctors on May 19 in a packed Schwarz Theater in front of family members and friends. “You are becoming members of a the health care team,” SUNY Optometry president, Dr. David A. Heath told the students during…
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The College’s assistant chief of police believes it is important to go the extra mile. Dapo Adurogbola didn’t know what he wanted to be as a kid, but he knew one thing: “Whatever I do must matter.” As assistant chief of police for SUNY Optometry, he makes good on that…
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SUNY Optometry researchers have found a surprising new effect of amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, that may open the door for new treatments. Their findings were published by The Journal of Neuroscience.
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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…
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Amid the hustle of labs, classes and exams, the program offers a calm—and informative—respite. In the caffeine-fueled world of academia, SUNY Optometry decided to nurture student success with something gentler: tea. And thinking. Those are two of the guiding ideas behind T-Chats session, the central component of the Academic, Clinical…
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The State University of New York College of Optometry advances visual health and patient care through leadership in education, research and service.
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Here’s a look at some of the recent activities of our faculty: The Research Foundation of SUNY has secured an option agreement with a venture capital firm to create a new company to leverage technology created by Dr. Stewart Bloomfield to develop drugs to treat degenerative disorders of the retina.…
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