SERVICE TO OUR PATIENTS AND COMMUNITY Dr. Jennifer Gould ’13 Dr. Jennifer Gould ’13 is the University Eye Center’s new chief of advanced care. She joined the College’s primary care faculty in 2014 and moved into advanced care a year later. “I’ve always known I wanted to do advanced care longterm,” she says. “I completed a residency in ocular disease at East New York Eye Clinic in Brooklyn and glaucoma is my passion. I also value the rapport I can establish with my patients since the condition requires frequent visits.” Dr. Gould actively pursued her new role and finds its administrative duties comfortable thanks to the organizational skills honed during her initial career as a mechanical engineer. “It’s also energizing to be engaged with the people making change and advancing the institution.” She looks forward to providing more services for the UEC’s patients, particularly those with diabetes and macular degeneration, and new opportunities for telehealth and updated technology. Work in Progress: Adult Primary Care Services A total redesign of the seventh floor Primary Care clinical operations Current status: Under design; three concept layouts were recently presented to the College Budget: Construction budget still being finalized, but the design budget is $1,055,000 Projected completion date: Design in Summer 2019, Construction TBD 14,328 Referral Visits, 2017-18 Innovative Vision + Social Work Collaboration Serves Patients Often Relegated to the Margins SUNY Optometry has embarked on a new journey to provide coordinated vision and social services for visually impaired older adults and low-income children in collaboration with Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare (SBUSSW), which is hosted by the College in Manhattan. The care coordination program brings together optometry and social work professionals to provide wraparound care for University Eye Center (UEC) patients. “Our faculty, staff and students have provided educational seminars and trainings to SUNY Optometry faculty and students on a range of topics, including identifying child and elder abuse, mandated reporting, depression, and grief and loss in patients with vision loss,” says Shelley Horwitz, assistant dean for SBUSSW’s Manhattan operations. “We are also discussing joint research projects around traumatic brain injury, vision impairment and developmental disabilities.” But first up is the care coordination initiative. “The hypothesis is that many of the homebound patients and children with special needs served through the UEC have unmet needs that could be addressed through care management and lead to better health outcomes.” Stony Brook adjunct professor Marion Wise counsels UEC patients 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 19
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