SUNY Optometry Annual Report 2014 by Marcel Catafago

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ...................................................................... 4 EDUCATION.............................................................................................. 6 PATIENT CARE......................................................................................... 16 RESEARCH.............................................................................................. 24 Alumni.................................................................................................. 28 Our Foundation.................................................................................. 31 The Vision and the Promise Campaign............................................... 34 Financials............................................................................................ 42

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Ready for an Evolving Future… On October 1st, we had the pleasure of announcing the successful completion of our $10 million fundraising campaign, The Vision and the Promise, which was conducted by our campus-affiliated foundation, the Optometric Center of New York. With a final tabulation of $10.15 million raised, the success of our efforts can only be regarded as a remarkable achievement given that it was the first formal campaign in the College’s 43-year history and that it was achieved during the most tumultuous economic period since the Great Depression. What is most important, however, is how we’re putting this success into action and, thanks to the great generosity of our community, our institution is well-positioned to pursue our strategic goals at a very critical moment in time. State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher often speaks of our fundraising efforts as serving to provide our campuses with a “margin of excellence” and, indeed, the success of The Vision and the Promise is helping us to do just that. Our fundraising efforts provide us with the critical support that we need to achieve our strategic goals. Perhaps now more than ever before, our ability to achieve our goals is essential. Like all health care professions today, optometry is in the midst of a very rapid and exciting evolution. Heath care reform, innovations in technology,

enhanced patient care coordination through interprofessional practice and other factors are the driving forces behind the need for change. But with this transformation of our profession comes enormous responsibility for educational institutions like ours: we must be at the vanguard of this shifting paradigm in order to effectively prepare our students, as well as serve the patients that we care for, not just for today but for the decades ahead. The findings of the National Eye Care Workforce Study, issued jointly by the American Optometric Association and the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry last summer, help to illuminate just how much our evolving health care system and the forces that are coming to bear on the demand for eye care services, are likely to impact optometric practice. The study shows that of nearly 57,000 eye doctors nationally, two-thirds (about 40,000) are optometrists and one-third (about 16,600) are ophthalmologists. The ratio is similar in New York State. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the resulting expansion of health insurance coverage, as well as the inclusion of eye care as an essential benefit for children, the overall demand for care is likely to grow for the next decade and beyond. Given that optometrists provide the bulk of eye care in the nation, there is good reason to believe that optometry will shoulder much of this growing obligation. This, however, is only part of the story. The aging population will increase the prevalence of chronic eye disease. This, along with projected increases in diabetes and other systemic diseases, means that optometrists will be increasingly called upon to deliver the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical eye care in the years ahead. They will also be required to deliver care using progressively sophisticated technology, maximizing the use of ancillary personnel and, perhaps most critically, working effectively as members of interprofessional teams of health care providers. With an understanding of these trends, the College is preparing our students for the future. As this report illustrates, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working hard to adapt to the changes that are driving our profession forward. From evaluating and innovating in the didactic and clinical aspects of our curriculum, to incorporating new technologies and engaging in interprofessional education; from renovating and upgrading our infrastructure, to developing and implementing new academic and career development programs, we are dedicated to ensuring that our students, residents and alumni embrace these exciting new opportunities head-on and thrive in the process. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop at simply preparing our students to excel and lead as practitioners either. At the College we play a leading role in advancing future clinical practice and the care of the public through our research program. Of course our academic and research activities come to fruition in the direct care that we provide to tens of thousands of people at the University Eye Center and through an increasing number of outreach activities throughout our community. As you read this report, remember that without the success of The Vision and the Promise campaign, as well as the current and future support that you provide to our College, these achievements would simply not be possible. From our entire community, I offer heartfelt gratitude for partnering with us in this success. Sincerely,

David A. Heath, OD, EdM President

E d u c a t i o n Looking Closely at Clinical Skills In recent decades, the various health professions have been placing their educational focus on the definition of competency and its assessment as a means for assuring that the practitioners that they train possess the attributes required of independent care providers. The days of using clock hours as a proxy for learning are long gone. Like its sister professions, optometric education’s use of defined competencies has evolved with the health care system, becoming more sophisticated. Historically, optometric education centered on the teaching of clinical skills, (or techniques), that were used in the measurement of refractive error, binocular vision or eye health. While technical skills remain an important part of practice, far greater emphasis is now being placed on the analytical or cognitive skills required in the application of testing results within an evidence-based framework to assure the best patient care outcomes. The SUNY College of Optometry has worked to develop and apply effective measures of competencies, together with the essentials of evidence-based practice, to assure that its students develop into clinicians who are able to provide the best and most informed care for their patients. As part of its current strategic plan, the College has committed itself to continually improving and evaluating its evidence-based clinical training and ensuring that it anticipates future trends in health care. “A student’s ability to gain and demonstrate competencies rather than simply the number of hours spent in the classroom has long been a part of optometric education,” says SUNY Optometry president, Dr. David A. Heath. “The historic focus on technical skills is a by-product of our evolution as a profession and a side-effect of the fact that technical skills are the easiest to directly observe and assess. The focus today must be on developing a clear understanding of evidence-based care, cognitive skills, critical thinking, patient communications and team-based practice. Assuring competency in these areas is far more challenging but it’s a challenge we’re gladly embracing,” he continued. Dr. Richard Madonna, chair of the Department of Clinical Education, explains that his department, in conjunction with the vice president and dean for academic affairs, Dr. David Troilo, recently initiated the “Core Experiences Project” to identify and develop several distinct areas of clinical competency which students must demonstrate proficiency in prior to completing the Doctor of Optometry program. These competencies fall within four core areas: refractive care, sensorimotor conditions, disease and trauma and interprofessional practice. “Every student must meet a specified number of points in each core area in order to assure that they have sufficient experience in those areas,” Dr. Madonna explains. “Clinical grading is based upon the effective delivery of patient care as well as the student’s interpersonal skills, communication ability and professionalism.” continued on page 8

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Health care practitioners are increasingly finding themselves working as members of a broader health care team in order to provide the best possible integrated care for their patients. The College embraces this model and continues to develop ways in which it can incorporate interprofessional education into both its didactic and clinical curriculum. From incorporating case studies in the classroom to increasing the number of opportunities for student involvement at full-service hospitals such as Woodhull Medical Center, SUNY Optometry is fully committed to implementing a premier, multifaceted, interprofessional model for optometric education.

continued from page 6 These areas reflect the key elements of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry’s publication, “Attributes of Students Graduating from Schools and Colleges of Optometry Report,” which the committee used as a broad template for defining the core experience and developing the competencies. Dr. Madonna stresses, however, that the core competencies are not static requirements but are, in fact, specifically designed as the foundation of a dynamic process that takes into account how optometrists will practice in the future. “Optometrists are continuing to evolve from measurers to assessors” he notes. “Technology is now allowing many of these measurements to be taken by instruments that can be run by technicians. It is essential that optometric training recognize this.” There is a clear paradigm shift in clinical education away from the delivery of procedures and towards an increased emphasis on understanding of the scientific underpinnings of those procedures. “The level of skill needed to perform a procedure may change,” Dr. Madonna explains. “But students will need to spend more time working to understand the meaning of test results and how best to utilize those results to provide evidence-based care as part of a broader health care team.” This shift is something that administrators have been paying close attention to, particularly in the face of health care reform. “All signs point to the fact that, in the future, health care will be delivered by teams consisting of individuals from different professions,” Dr. Madonna says. “So it is essential that our students are trained to work as part of these teams.” Dr. Troilo notes that it is the College’s “role to educate students in the critical assessment of standards of care and evidence-based practice in order for them to deliver the best patient care available.” Moreover, Dr. Troilo recognizes that the College also has an obligation to ensure that it plays a role as a source of that evidence through its own robust clinical research efforts.

Internship Program Provides Unparalleled Experience for CSTEP Students For two weeks each winter and spring, undergraduate college students from throughout New York State participate in the SUNY College of Optometry’s Collegiate Science and To see videos of CSTEP Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) Internship. The students have the opportunity to students talking about their experiences, in both attend lectures by College faculty members and experience first-hand what it’s like to the internship and summer work with and care for patients in the University Eye Center. academic program, scan the QR code (above) or The CSTEP Program is a visit www.youtube.com/ sunyoptometry New York State-sponsored initiative designed to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority students in the sciences. SUNY Optometry is an enthusiastic partner in the CSTEP program. In addition to the internship programs, the College hosts a free, eightweek Summer Academic Program each year from May to July.

Unique Mentoring Program Launched by the Career Development Center Through its varied programming, events and individualized services, the College’s Career Development Center works to help students, residents and alumni achieve meaningful success in their career. Last year, the Career Development Center launched a mentoring program designed to capitalize on the SUNY community’s vast network of alumni, professional organizations and partners in order to recruit the most talented mentors to connect with its students and residents in an easy and effective way. The Family of Mentors Program utilizes a powerful online system that helps match mentees with an appropriate mentor based on a variety of topics. The Family of Mentors system then helps to facilitate the mentoring process by offering discussion prompts and activities for mentors and mentees to follow as they get to know one another. The program also includes a series in-person events as well. Mr. Francisco Lucio (pictured above), director of career development and minority enrichment at the College, answers a few questions about the Family of Mentors program and what he hopes it will accomplish.

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Tell us why the Career Development Center decided to create the Family of Mentors Program as one of the services it provides to students and residents at the College? No one ever makes it alone. Everyone who has ever achieved career success has done it with the help of others. Mentoring is a focused effort to facilitate career success because there is a rich

and meaningful connection formed between a mentor and mentee. The CDC felt that it was crucial to create that space where mentoring relationships could form and thrive, and thus, the development of the Family of Mentors Program. We also wanted to facilitate the process with the help of our online platform.

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What do you hope that students and residents will gain most from their interaction with their mentor? My hope is that students and residents will make a deep and meaningful connection with a lifelong colleague. So often in today’s fast-paced world of text messages, tweets and one-line

email responses opportunities to truly get to know someone are lost. The structured Family of Mentors Program creates built-in opportunities for mentors and mentees to get to know one another via monthly discussion prompts that touch on not just optometry, but also personal goals and aspirations.

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How about the mentors, what would you like them to take away from their experience mentoring? As a former teacher, I know the great satisfaction one receives from helping a young person grow and achieve their goals, so I’m positive our mentors will get similar satisfaction from helping their

mentees. Sometimes, it is the mentor who ends up gaining the most from the relationship because he or she has the opportunity to be introspective and giving.

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What kinds of mentors are you looking for? Do they have to be in the optometric profession or are you looking to recruit mentors with a variety of professional backgrounds? We’re looking for mentors with the passion to help students and residents here at the College. We want mentors who come from all walks of life and have decided to take on the responsibility

of developing a budding professional. The mentors we’re seeking can come from other professional backgrounds because there is a lot that can be learned from someone else’s experience.

For more information visit www.sunyopt.edu/fmp

To see a video about the 3rd Annual Career Symposium, scan the QR code (right) or visit www.youtube.com/ sunyoptometry

Career Symposium Enlightens and Inspires The SUNY College of Optometry was buzzing about the future last spring during the College’s 3rd Annual Career Symposium: Imagine Tomorrow. The full-day event assembled a collection of distinguished professionals to provided students and other members of the SUNY community with an informed glimpse at what the future of optometry might look like. Two dozen experts from across a broad spectrum of the optometric community and beyond took part in a variety of fast-paced, interactive panel discussions on such issues as employability, technology, interprofessional practice and more. President Heath noted in his welcoming remarks to the audience that one of the College’s goals is to ensure that the overwhelming majority of students who attend SUNY Optometry end up in satisfying careers of their choosing. Events like the annual career symposium are designed specifically as tools to help the members of the College community achieve that important goal. A major theme of this year’s event was the globalization of the profession, something that was reflected in the international nature of many of the symposium’s participants. Dr. Fan Lu of Wenzhou Medical University in China, Dr. Hector Santiago who has worked for three decades on the development of optometric education in Latin America and beyond were two of the panelists, while Dr. Jason Singh, the event’s keynote speaker, is the executive director of OneSight, a nonprofit organization that is working to create sustainable solutions for vision care around the world. “The energy, the enthusiasm, the collection of talent and the wide range of issues that were addressed helped to make this year’s symposium the best one yet,” said Mr. Francisco Lucio, SUNY Optometry’s director of career development. “It was a great opportunity for the members of our community to really dig into the issues that will matter for their careers in the coming years.”

E y e o n t h e F u t u r e . . . Graduate

Residency Program

SUNY Optometry has developed a highly unique residency/graduate program that is designed to produce clinician-scientists with a particular focus on translational and clinical research. This combined program concentrates on primary care/pediatrics, cornea/contact lenses, vision therapy / rehabilitation / traumatic brain injury or ocular disease. The focus areas of the residency complement the research interests that are developed through the graduate degree work. The program takes place over a two- or five-year period depending on whether the participant is pursuing an MS or PhD degree. The participants in this innovative program are expected to devote half their time to residency and clinical activates and the other half to graduate studies and research.

College Completes Major Classroom Overhaul A major gut renovation was completed to the College’s first floor classrooms prior to the fall semester. Known as 101 (now Feder Hall) and 103, the work was done in order to create a more modern, comfortable and tech-savvy learning space. The remodeled “smart” classrooms, which can also be combined into one larger room, are now equipped with fully automated, multi-media technologies making them a stark improvement over what existed before.

To see a slide show of images showing the tranformation of the classroom, scan the QR code (above) or visit www.youtube. com/sunyoptometry

SUNY Community Steps Up for World Sight Day In October the SUNY College of Optometry community came together to recognize World Sight Day, a day that is designed to draw attention to the scourge of avoidable blindness across the world organized by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. The events at the College were organized by the student chapter of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The group organized an information table in the busy lobby of the College’s Midtown Manhattan building so that students, faculty and staff, as well as visitors and patients of the University Eye Center, could learn more about the enormous impact that avoidable blindness has on people across the globe. According to the World Health Organization, about 80 percent of the 285 million people who are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide have either a preventable or treatable condition. Students, faculty and staff were encouraged to purchase and wear World Sight Day t-shirts to help raise awareness and money for Optometry Giving Sight’s World Sight Day Challenge, the largest annual global fundraising campaign to address avoidable blindness. The events included a discussion by Dr. Jordan Kasslow, an optometrist and founder of VisionSpring, a social enterprise specifically developed to ensure affordable access to eyewear around the world. The World Sight Day events were partially sponsored by the American Optometric Student Association and the Optometric Center of New York, as well as TOMS, a shoe and eyewear company and innovator in the “one-for-one” business model. World Sight Day is closely aligned with the World Health Organization’s five-year “Global Action Plan” which focuses heavily on ensuring that all people around the world have access to quality eye health services.

Extending our Global Reach The global presence of the SUNY College of Optometry received a boost this past year under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey Philpott (pictured, center) and the newly re-organized department of Student Affairs and International Programs. With an eye toward building partnerships that are relevant for students, improving health care and expanding the scope of optometric practice around the world, as well as helping to build an even more diverse student body, the College is in the midst of developing several exciting new international programs. SUNY Optometry has entered into a partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and has begun building relationships in Ecuador, France and elsewhere. “The work that we’ve been doing in Africa, South America and Europe this past year has the potential to have major ramifications, not only here at the College, but in those countries as well,” Dr. Philpott said. “We want to develop international relationships that are relevant for our current students but also have the potential to make a deep and lasting impact on the profession of optometry globally.” The College’s Confucius Institute for Healthcare celebrated its fifth year at SUNY Optometry. In addition to offering a variety of programs on Chinese language and culture, new programs are being developed, including courses about world health care and acupuncture, as well as Mandarin for optometrists.

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SUNY Spirit Shines at VisionWalk 2014 The College community showed up in full force at Citi Field last May for VisionWalk 2014, raising thousands of dollars for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and winning the New York event’s “Overall Spirit Award” in the process. Dr. Susan Schuettenberg, an associate clinical professor at the College, served as medical co-chair for the 5k walk which, since its inception in 2006, has seen tens of thousands of participants from across the country and raised over $30 million to fund sight-saving research. Over 170 students, faculty and staff from SUNY Optometry, and their families, participated.

College Responds to Growing Need for Residency Education The 2013-14 residency class at SUNY Optometry was the largest in its more than four-decade history. A total of 37 residents in 15 different programs received certificates of advanced clinical competency at a ceremony last June.

A Day of Celebration: Commencement 2014 The College awarded a record 80 students with degrees during its 40th commencement last June. During the ceremony, SUNY conferred an honorary degree upon Dr. Jacob Nachmias, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and a leader in developing the modern understanding of spatial vision. This year the College inaugurated the Presidential Medal, awarding it to Dr. Robert Duckman. The Presidential Medal was created to recognize a retiring, full-time faculty member who has devoted the vast majority of his or her career to the College and whose work has made a significant impact in their field. Dr. Duckman joined the faculty of the College when it opened in 1971. Class of 2014 President, Mitali Sanghani, spoke to her fellow graduates about the camaraderie that they shared and urged her colleagues to use their new careers for good. “We are in a profession that can change lives,” she said. This year’s commencement address was given by Ms. Ronda Kotelchuck, the chief executive officer of the Primary Care Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that works to expand and transform primary health care in underserved communities. Ms. Kotelchuck noted that the graduates would be entering into a health care system that has undergone enormous change recently but also carefully pointed out that they had the opportunity to make an outsized impact within the new system.

Dr. Robert Duckman

President Heath with Ms. Ronda Kotelchuck and Dr. Jacob Nachmias

P a t i e n t C a re College Expands Partnership with Bowery Mission SUNY Optometry’s partnership with The Bowery Mission, one of New York City’s most respected organizations providing services to the city’s homeless and vulnerable, expanded to East Harlem last spring. In early 2013 the College signed an agreement to provide those served by The Bowery Mission’s lower Manhattan location with full-service, no-cost, comprehensive eye care. Three days each month, SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Jack Chen, along with interns from the College, visit the site to provide care to a wide range of people. Thanks to broad support solicited by the Optometric Center of New York, the College’s philanthropic foundation, equipment was purchased and provided for the program as well. The continued support from a range of foundations and individual donors has enabled the College to expand its relationship with The Bowery Mission to include the organization’s new Men’s Center in East Harlem. The center is expected to house up to 60 men in a transitional residential setting and provide services to both the residents and members of the neighborhood in need. “We are pleased and honored to have the SUNY College of Optometry spearheading the health care services at our new Men’s Center and providing full-service eye care to residents,” said Mr. Matt Krivich, The Bowery Mission’s director of operations and community relations. “The people served by The Bowery Mission have benefited greatly as SUNY Optometry has provided excellent care at our lower Manhattan location. We are excited to be expanding our existing partnership into East Harlem.” Renovations to the Men’s Center were completed in order to provide two fully equipped diagnostic examination rooms. All services, including any necessary optical devices such as glasses, are provided free of charge. “Our partnership with The Bowery Mission has been fruitful for us in a variety of ways,” said President Heath, “It has provided us with another opportunity to fulfill our mission of providing service to our community and it has also given us the ability to further enhance our students’ clinical experiences while also promoting the value and importance of public health.”

Eye on the Future...A

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As it prepares for the future, the University Eye Center is partnering with NextGen Healthcare to develop a series of electronic solutions that will enable the clinic to manage its patient care activities more efficiently. From a new electronic health records system that will allow health information to be more seamlessly and securely shared between practitioners, to improved systems for communicating, scheduling, prescribing and billing patients, this new system—scheduled to come online in 2015 — will help prepare the UEC for the future of health care.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Provides Support for UEC’s Growing Community Outreach Efforts The University Eye Center will use a two-year, $200,000 grant provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, one of the world’s leading international philanthropic organizations, to the Optometric Center of New York, to create and staff a fulltime community outreach coordinator. The new coordinator, Ms. Marinel Pena (pictured), began working in September and is responsible for managing and expanding the UEC’s network of ongoing relationships across the New York City community and beyond. “Enhancing public health through education and service is part of our mission at the College,” said President Heath in a statement announcing the gift. “We’re certainly grateful to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for partnering with us in our effort to build on the success that we’ve had in caring for our community.” The UEC has been steadily expanding its outreach programs in a variety of different ways. Last year, the clinic’s doctors made more than 200 visits to individuals in Manhattan and Queens who are unable to leave their homes as part of its decades-long Homebound program. The College also established a partnership with the Bowery Mission to provide regular, free vision care to those served by the Mission in lower Manhattan. That program expand to the Bowery’s East Harlem location this past spring (see page 16). UEC doctors and practitioners also provided more than 1,100 individuals at various educational and community events throughout the city last year with vital, health-related information. Doctors, interns and staff also regularly examine individuals at free screenings in the UEC and throughout the community designed to detect a variety of ocular and systemic diseases. In addition to maintaining the institution’s robust outreach programs, the community outreach coordinator will also focus on developing new and different avenues for providing a broad range of care to underserved members of the community. “We’re very excited by the opportunity that having Marinel in this position will give to us in our ongoing effort to expand our outreach into the community,” said Dr. Richard Soden, vice president for clinical affairs at the College and executive director of the UEC. “The care that we provide for our neighbors is an important service and I am pleased that this grant will enable us to expand on our already vigorous efforts.” Charitable Care

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Unique Clinical Care Unit to be Developed at the University Eye Center Last summer SUNY Optometry signed an agreement with Marco Ophthalmic, a leading manufacturer of diagnostic equipment, designed to assist the College in its ongoing efforts to develop and integrate new technologies into both the educational and patient care components of its mission. Marco, along with its affiliated philanthropic arm, the Seymour R. Marco Family Foundation, has agreed to provide SUNY Optometry, through its own foundation the Optometric Center of New York, with cash and in-kind gifts worth a total of $100,000 over a five-year period. This support, in part, will enable the College to move ahead with the development of a unique clinical care unit that will be known as the “Practice of Today.” Composed of four examination rooms as well as a pre-testing facility to be housed within the UEC’s primary care service, the unit will be managed by Dr. Thomas Wong. The staffing will include four, fourth-year OD student externs and, potentially, additional first- and second-year OD students in ancillary roles. The unit, by its own design, will be subjected to a variety of experimental structures in both the use of new technology as well as the staffing patterns it deploys. One of the primary goals of the unit is to prepare current students for the inevitable technological changes and workflow shifts within clinical care settings that they will face as they enter practice settings. “We see this as the University Eye Center’s beta testing site for both technology and for alternative approaches to our clinical care and educational programs,” President Heath said. The goal will be to determine the best practices that could likely modify how the College conducts its pre-clinical training as well as how its clinical services are managed in the UEC. “Two very critical elements of our current strategic plan are to develop the highest quality practitioners by providing the most progressive and adaptive education possible and to deliver effective, innovative care to our patients,” President Heath said. “This new unit will help us take important steps toward achieving those goals.”

UEC’s Referral Service Working with a Growing Community of Practitioners

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Since its establishment more than five years ago, the University Eye Center’s Referral Service has provided the clinic with a steady and growing stream of patients. The growth, in fact, has been staggering. Last year, the Referral Service produced a record number of referrals, close to three times the number of patient encounters than it had just five years earlier. That growth, according to Dr. Harriette Canellos, the Referral Service’s director, can be attributed to several factors, including the UEC’s reputation, the multitude of specialty services that it provides and simple word-of-mouth from a wide range of satisfied referring doctors and other health care professionals in the community. “When the Referral Service began, we assumed that we would be receiving referrals from doctors in the New York City area,” Dr. Canellos says, “but we quickly started to receive referrals from Long Island, Westchester County and Upstate New York, as well as from Connecticut and beyond. It’s a testament to the good work that we’ve been doing here.” Many referrals come from optometrists and ophthalmologists looking for specialized services that they don’t perform in their own practices. “Optometrists and ophthalmologists often refer patients to us for things like specialty contact lens fittings, or for our extensive Imaging Service,” Dr. Canellos notes. Over the past year, however, one area of growth for the Referral Service has been particularly notable. Two years ago, about one quarter of the referrals made through the Referral Service came from specialists outside of the areas of optometry and ophthalmology. Last year, that number grew to more than one-third of all referrals. Dr. Canellos credits a growing recognition about the importance of an interprofessional approach to health care as part of the reason for this development. “These referring providers are recognizing that optometrists are part of a larger health care team,” Dr. Canellos notes. This fact seems to be well-illustrated in the Referral Services’ data. “Primary care physicians and pediatricians have recognized our excellence when it comes to both routine exams and advanced care,” Dr. Canellos says. “We see referrals from primary care physicians for patients with systemic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, and we see referrals from pediatricians for children with conditions ranging from eye infections to learning disabilities.” In addition, when a child fails a basic vision screening performed by a pediatrician, that doctor often refers that child to the UEC for a more extensive evaluation. The Referral Service is also seeing an expanding number of referrals from beyond the realm of primary care physicians and pediatricians. Specialists are regularly referring their patients to the UEC. “We have dermatologists who refer their patients to our Oculoplastics Service, and neurologists who refer to our Head Trauma Service,” Dr. Canellos says. “And we’re also seeing an increasing number of referrals from professionals like speech pathologists, audiologists, occupational and physical therapists, as well as from school psychologists, teachers and child advocates.” The Referral Service was created to provide services and testing that complement what the referring practitioners can deliver to their patients. This goal, Dr. Canellos notes, epitomizes what interprofessional health care is all about. But it also helps to highlight the three-pronged mission of the institution—education, research and patient care—to the larger health care community. “The Referral Service is looking to increase our recognition, not only as a patient care facility but also as an important educational institution that engages in critical research as well,” she says. “The Referral Service plays a key role in raising the visibility of our entire institutional mission.”

Support Enhances Dispensing Services Essilor of America provided SUNY Optometry’s optical lens fabricating laboratory with a new optical lens edger. Through this in-kind donation, as well as cash contributions to be made by the company over a five-year period, SUNY will help to ensure that its dispensary remains an innovative, state-of-the-art facility for both its students at the College and its patients in the University Eye Center. In recognition for the gift, the College has named its optical operations the “Essilor Eyewear Center.” “The future of optometry is important to Essilor, and through this contribution we are pleased to support SUNY and its efforts to train students in a modern, high-tech facility,” said Dr. Howard Purcell, senior vice president of customer development at Essilor of America. “We are honored to be associated with SUNY and the work they do to provide students with the latest, most innovative equipment as they gain a hands-on learning experience in preparation for their optometric careers.”

Class of 2016 Sees Strong Support at White Coat Ceremony Well over 200 people gathered in the Schwarz Theater last May to welcome the Class of 2016 into the third year of their professional program. This rite of passage, known as a “white coat ceremony,” has been increasingly celebrated at professional health education institutions across the nation in recent years. The College began conducting its own white coat ceremony in 2011 and this year saw the largest collection of family, friends and faculty members in attendance to date. A total of 85 students received pins as part of the hour-long ceremony that included the perspectives of a parent of one of the students—Dr. Sylvia Bernatsky, herself an OD—as well as inspirational words from Mr. Richard Bernstein, a visually impaired lawyer and advocate who has completed 18 marathons and triathlons. In his remarks to the gathering, President Heath, noted that the progression of the Class of 2016 into its third year of the Doctor of Optometry program represents a significant watershed in the students’ professional lives that marks a shift of focus away from themselves to a greater concern over the well-being and care of their patients. Meanwhile, the rapid evolution of the health care environment was also imparted on the clinical interns. Dr. Richard Soden, vice president for clinical affairs at the College, noted that the students will be faced with “the greatest changes in health care reform since the introduction of Medicare” nearly fifty years ago. While Dr. Denise Whittam, the past president of the New York State Optometric Association and the current President of SUNY Optometry’s Alumni Association, told the students that they would soon be entering a profession that has progressed markedly in recently years, a sentiment that was also articulated by Dr. Bernatsky during her remarks. Dr. Bernatsky urged the students to remember that working with patients is a two-way street. “At times you may need to teach your patients,” she said. “But don’t forget to learn from them as well.” Mr. Bernstein, who was introduced by Jenna Salner, the class president, implored the students to remember the impact that they will have on their patients’ lives and thanked them for their “willingness to make people’s lives better.”

Engaging with the Profession Last June, SUNY students produced a spirited, Rocky-themed video (screen shot at left) as part of the Varilux Optometry Student Bowl at Optometry’s Meeting in Philadelphia. Last spring a contingent of SUNY Optometry students met with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. as part of the American Optometric Associations’s annual Congressional Advocacy Conference.

SUNY Optometry Community Highlights Critical Health Issue The College highlighted the importance of heart health awareness last winter with students, faculty and staff— dressed brightly in red—handing out more than 400 red ribbons and information designed to educate and enlighten the community about this critical health issue. The event, which was organized by the student chapter of the American Public Health Association, is also emblematic of the overall commitment that the University Eye Center and the SUNY College of Optometry have toward addressing important public health issues.

To see a video about heart health awareness at SUNY Optometry, scan the QR code (below) or visit www.youtube.com/ sunyoptometry

UEC Total Patient Encounters by Year

New UEC Patients

Encounters by Service

80,000

12,000

50,000

50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000

Fiscal year

35,000

8,000 6,000 4,000

30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000

2,000

Fiscal year

2 0 1 3 -14

2 0 1 2 -13

2 0 1 1 - 12

2 0 1 0 - 11

2009-10

2008-09

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

2 0 1 3 -14

2 0 1 2 -13

2 0 1 1 - 12

2 0 1 0 - 11

2009-10

2008-09

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

40,000

5,000 2004-05

number

60,000

45,000

10,000

number

number of patients

70,000

FY 07-08 FY 08-09 FY 09-10 FY 10-11 Adult and Pediatric Primary Care

FY 11-12

Vision Rehabilitation Fiscal year

FY 12-13

FY 13-14

Advanced Care

Research SUNY Optometry Researchers Solve 400-Year-Old Question It was a problem that perplexed Galileo more than four centuries ago. SUNY College of Optometry researchers Dr. Jens Kremkow, Dr. Jose Manuel Alonso, Dr. Qasim Zaidi and collaborators in their laboratories published a seminal paper last February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science that advances the understanding of how our brains are wired for seeing white versus black objects solving this long-standing conundrum. The effect that the SUNY Optometry researchers studied is responsible for how we see everything from textures and faces, to why it is easier to read a page with black-on-white lettering, rather than white-on-black (a well-known, and until now, unexplained phenomenon). By tracing these effects as a function of the way neurons are laid out and interconnected in the retina and brain, Drs. Kremkow, Alonso and Zaidi found that the illusion is potentially derived from the very origin of vision—in photoreceptors of the eye themselves.

To see a video explaining this ground-breaking research, scan the QR code (left) or visit www. youtube.com/sunyoptometry

Clinical Vision Research Center Receives over $2 Million in Funding

To see a video about the CVRC, scan the QR code (right) or visit www.youtube. com/sunyoptometry

Hundreds of individuals participated in 11 clinical research trials over the course of last year, testing everything from a potential new drug for treating dry eye, to the nature of retinal disease, to new glasses and contacts that could slow the progression of myopia in children. The Clinical Vision Research Center (CVRC) collaborated with both industry and government partners to conduct studies and worked closely with faculty members and the University Eye Center to help enroll subjects into the various studies. “These collaborations allow us to offer treatment options not otherwise available to our patients,” Dr. Kathryn Richdale, the CVRC director said. “I’m proud of the role that SUNY Optometry and the CVRC are playing in the important process of ophthalmic device and drug development and look forward to continued expansion of our industry partnerships.” Established in February 2013, the CVRC has quickly become an integral component of the College’s robust research activities.

year

2013 - 1 4

2012 - 1 3

2 0 1 1- 12

2010 - 1 1

2009 - 1 0

2008 - 09

2007 - 08

2006 - 07

2005 - 06

2004 - 05

2003 - 04

2002 - 03

2001 - 02

2000 - 0 1

1999 - 00

1998 - 99

1997 - 98

1996 - 97

income ( $ )

Grant Activity

4,500,000

4,000,000

3,500,000

3,000,000

2,500,000

2,000,000

1,500,000

1,000,000

500,000

Faculty Member Receives Distinguished Professor Honor from SUNY Board of Trustees Dr. Jose-Manuel Alonso was one of 19 faculty members across the entire State University of New York System to be appointed by SUNY’s Board of Trustees as a distinguished professor last year. “SUNY’s highest faculty honor, the distinguished ranking, is reserved for the best of the best,” said SUNY Board Chairman H. Carl McCall. “Each professor to earn this distinction has advanced their field while teaching and mentoring their students, often collaborating and innovating with their colleagues, and serving society at large through their work.” Dr. Alonso, who has been a faculty member at the College since 2002, is a visual neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of how visual information is processed in the primary visual cortex, the area of the brain with the most detailed representation of visual space. Chairman McCall

SUNY Optometry Researchers Receive Four SUNY Brain Network of Excellence Grants Research projects focusing on brain and eye disorders conducted by faculty and students at the College received a total of nearly $380,000 in funding as part of the initial round of awards provided by the new SUNY Brain Network of Excellence. Dr. Jose Manuel Alonso, Dr. Stewart Bloomfield, Dr. Robert McPeek, Dr. Qasim Zaidi and Dr. David Troilo, as well as several students at the College, are currently working on four of the eight neuroscience projects that received the first round of funding through this newly established SUNY Research Foundation program. “On SUNY campuses across the state, our students and faculty are making major medical breakthroughs, discovering with each new venture a more effective way to understand, diagnose or treat diseases that affect brain and eye function in people of all ages,” SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said in an announcement about the awards. The SUNY Brain Network of Excellence, one of five networks throughout the SUNY system, was created to maximize interdisciplinary and collaborative neuroscience research across the SUNY campuses and facilitate partnerships with academia, industry and community.

Research Foundation Fellowship Awarded Dr. Kathryn Richdale, the Dr. Alden N. Haffner Innovation Chair at the College and director of the Clinical Vision Research Center, was awarded a 2014-15 Research Foundation Presidential Fellowship. Dr. Richdale is working to enhance the clinical trials infrastructure and increase awareness of patient-based research conducted throughout the SUNY system campuses. The Presidential Fellowship Program is designed to enlist the expertise and assistance of faculty across the system in research collaboration. Presidential Fellows lead and foster multidisciplinary research collaboration among campus researchers and other partners in support of SUNY’s research agenda.

Type of Grants

Faculty & Student Publications and Presentations*

45 40

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

number

Presentations

35 30 25 20

50 40 30

5 0

Invited Talks & Lectures Publications

FEDERAL

non-FEDERAL

Foreign

total

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

* Publications from Pub-Med search and self reports. Presentations from search of ARVO, VSS and Academy databases and self reports.

A l u m n i

Alumnus Provides Substantial Support for the Vision and the Promise Campaign During the Optometric Center of New York’s ‘Eyes on New York’ gala last March, President Heath announced that SUNY Optometry alumnus, Dr. Mark Feder (Class of 1983) and his wife Sherrie had provided significant support to the campaign which the College recognized by naming of one of its newly-renovated, state-of-the-art classrooms “Feder Hall.” In addition, Dr. Feder has also established Dr. Feder and his wife Sherrie with President Heath two scholarships focused on excellence in primary care and at the naming ceremony for “Feder Hall” contact lenses. In October, the College handed out the first of these scholarships and officially named the classroom. “We are proud to support The Vision and the Promise campaign,” Dr. Feder said at the time his gift was announced. “The College plays such a critical role in the community providing education, patient care and research.” Dr. Feder is the founder of Norwalk Eye Care and has been in private practice in Norwalk, CT since his graduation from the College. He also serves as the chief executive officer of IDOC, an organization for independent optometrists. “SUNY is where I started my career more than three decades ago,” he said, “and it has been an incredibly rewarding journey for me being able to improve so many lives with the gift of sight.”

Alumna Elected Vice President of American Optometric Association Last June, SUNY Optometry Class of 1984 alumna and faculty member, Dr. Andrea Thau, was elected vice president of the American Optometric Association (AOA). Dr. Thau first became involved with the AOA when she was a student at the College during the 1980s. From 1990 to 1997, she served through all of the chairs of the Optometric Society of the City of New York (OSCONY), and became the organization’s first female president. She also served in the New York State Optometric Association (NYSOA) from 1987 to 2005, including 14 years as a member of its Board of Trustees. Dr. Thau was then elected the first female president of the NYSOA and served in that role from 2001-2003. In 2007, she was elected to the American Optometric Association’s Board of Trustees, re-elected in 2010, and then elected secretary-treasurer in 2013. Dr. Thau’s interest in the AOA and NYSOA started at a young age. Her late father, Dr. Edwin C. Thau, served as president of the Bronx County Optometric Society of the NYSOA. She witnessed the transformation of the optometric profession due to the volunteer efforts of AOA members on the local, state and national level. As a student, Dr. Thau lobbied with the NYSOA in Albany the year legislation was passed to enable optometrists in New York to utilize diagnostic pharmaceutical agents. Dr. Thau began her career as a full-time-faculty member at SUNY during her first five years of practice and has continued to be a part-time faculty member since. In 1987, she began her own private practice. “I love being in private practice and cultivating long term patient-care relationships with patients,” Dr. Thau said. “Between my father and I, we have cared for five generations of the same family. As OD’s, we protect, preserve, enhance, rehabilitate and maintain our patients’ vision. Participating actively as a volunteer in the American Optometric Association is exciting, invigorating and helps enhance this great profession.”

Dr. David A. Damari Named 2014 Alumnus of the Year In July the SUNY Optometry Alumni Association Board of Directors, in coordination with the entire alumni community, selected Dr. David A. Damari, from the Class of 1988, the Alumnus of the Year for 2014. The award was be presented to Dr. Damari as part of Alumni Reunion Weekend at Envision New York last October. Dr. Damari currently serves as dean of the Michigan College Alumnus of the Year Dr. Damari (right) with of Optometry at Ferris State University and previously served as Dr. Richard Madonna professor and chair of the Department of Assessment at Southern College of Optometry (SCO). Since 1995, he has been a national consultant on visual disabilities. Prior to joining SCO, he worked in private practice in New York State. The Alumnus/a of the Year Award is given annually to a SUNY College of Optometry graduate in recognition of his or her service to the profession, the College, and the community. In 2013, it was awarded to Dr. Jillia Bird. “Dr. Damari’s leadership and dedication to excellence as dean of the Michigan College of Optometry at Ferris State University will positively impact students for years to come,” Dr. Denise Whittam, president of the Alumni Association said in a letter announcing the award. “As an alumnus of SUNY Optometry, you carry forward a great tradition of education and service and your Alumni Association is pleased to pay tribute to you with this prestigious award.” For the first time in the history of the award, the selection committee chose three finalists and then opened up a vote to members of the alumni community at-large to make the final choice.

Speaking with the President of the Alumni Association In July 2013, Dr. Denise Whittam, a 1991 graduate of the College, became the president of the Alumni Association. We spoke with her about staying connected to her alma mater and her goals for the future of the Alumni Association.

You’re a 1991 graduate and, obviously, you’ve stayed involved with the institution since you graduated. Can you tell us why staying connected to your alma mater has been important for you?

Staying connected to SUNY through the Alumni Association has strengthened the bonds of friendship, professionalism and camaraderie that I have with my colleagues. It has been an extremely gratifying experience to meet students on Orientation Day, see them develop into clinicians, joining our professional arena as they receive their white coats at their White Coat Ceremony, following them throughout their academic and clinical experiences to that special toast that we give as they graduate. I remind everyone that commencement is just that—a beginning of their professional journey. Realizing that our colleagues are here for us, through good times and bad, bonding each and every day, adds a dimension of support, dedication and love for this dynamic profession. I am obviously passionate about this choice I have made in my professional life and with every story I hear from colleagues, I feel even more enthusiastic and positive. I have grown with the profession and I have acquired, cultivated and cherished so many special bonds of friendship with my colleagues who have become a part of my extended family.

With every new graduation the alumni family at SUNY Optometry grows larger. As it serves this larger community, what sort of developments would you like to see from the Alumni Association over the next year and beyond?

My dream for the Alumni Association is to bring all levels of the optometric experience together, starting with the first-year students, through graduation, and well beyond. I believe that many of the more experienced doctors can learn a lot from our new graduates entering the profession, especially in areas such as technology and methodology. At the same time, our new doctors, as well as future doctors, will gain invaluable experience working with successful, established clinicians who practice optometry every day. I would love to see even more growth in our mentorship programs and increased communication in the ways in which we can move optometry forward as a profession.

Our Foundation Optometric Center of New York Honors Executive and Humanitarian at Eleventh Annual Gala

The Optometric Center of New York (OCNY), the philanthropic foundation of the SUNY College of Optometry, held its Eleventh Annual “Eyes on New York” gala last March at Cipriani 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, honoring Mr. Andrea Dorigo, a former president of Luxottica Wholesale, North America and Ms. Edie Lutnick, the co-founder and executive director of The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. OCNY President Richard Feinbloom noted in his remarks during the evening that both honorees “have made significant contributions” to their communities through their professional and philanthropic activities. After taking the podium, President Heath told the gathering of more than 350 people from across the ophthalmic community and beyond that the OCNY had, at that point last spring, raised more than $9.5 million toward the $10 million goal that was established for the five-year Vision and the Promise campaign which the Foundation launched in 2009 to support the College’s education, patient care, research and community health care initiatives. “It is no longer a question of whether we will reach our goal,” President Heath said, “but by how much we will exceed it.” Mr. Dorigo, who held several senior management roles at Luxottica before joining Brooks Brothers in the newly-created role of president of North America earlier this year, expressed his honor at being recognized by the OCNY and noted that Luxottica takes “a long view” toward its commitment to both the ophthalmic industry and to the community at large. Mr. Dorigo was graciously introduced by gala co-chair Ms. Holly Rush, the current president of Luxottica Wholesale, North America. Ms. Lutnick received the OCNY’s Humanitarian of the Year Award. The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which she established with her brother, Howard, in the wake of 9/11, addresses the needs of victims of terrorism, natural disasters and emergencies. Ms. Lutnick was introduced by co-chair and current OCNY president Ms. Barbara Saltzman. In her remarks Ms. Lutnick expressed gratitude for the work that optometrists and other eye care professionals do, specifically noting the life-changing care that SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Neera Kapoor provided to one of her friends. “It was a remarkable evening and a wonderful testament to the great support that our community continues to provide to this critical campaign,” Ms. Ann Warwick, vice president for institutional advancement at SUNY Optometry and executive director of the OCNY said about the event. The 12th annual “Eyes on New York” gala will take place in the spring at The Plaza Hotel, a quintessentially New York institution.

Speaking with the New OCNY Board President On October 1, Ms. Barbara Saltzman took over the presidency of the Optometric Center of New York Board of Trustees from Mr. Richard Feinbloom. Ms. Saltzman has been a member of the OCNY Board since 2009. We asked her a couple of questions about the OCNY as she prepared to take over its leadership.

Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you became involved with the OCNY?

I was the president and CEO of a contract sales company in the pharmaceutical industry for many years so health care has always been something that I’ve been closely involved with and interested in. After I sold my business I really wanted to do the things that I never had the time to do while I was running my company and I wanted to give back in a way that was meaningful to me. When I met President Heath I knew that this was the right organization for me. I’m a person of action—I like to get things done—and his vision helped me recognize that there was a lot going on at the College and so much that the OCNY was doing to make a difference.

The Vision and the Promise campaign is now completed and the Foundation is providing more support than ever to students at the College as well as for patient care and research activities. The OCNY is in a very strong position as you take on the role of president of the Board of Trustees. How are you looking to build on this success?

Completing the campaign shows that we have the ability to raise significant funds, however we’re far from finished. It’s important to understand that the end of the campaign is really only the beginning of what we need to do. The board is very pleased with how the OCNY has been able to support the education, patient care, research and community outreach goals of the College but there is so much more work that needs to be done. Resting on our laurels is not an option or else we’ll lose the great momentum that we’ve gained. We have a terrific and extremely active board at the OCNY—Richard Feinbloom was a fantastic president and each of the trustees has made an enormous impact, both individually and collectively. I look forward to building on the successes of the board and expanding it in order to bring in even more individuals with different perspectives and from different walks of life. This is an extremely exciting time to be involved with the OCNY and the SUNY College of Optometry and I’m really looking forward to using the momentum that we’ve gained from completing The Vision and the Promise campaign to propel us to even greater heights.

OCNY’s Trust and Estates Committee Hosts events at Bonhams and the Lambs Club

Last fall OCNY’s Trust and Estates Committee hosted a unique private viewing of impressionist and modern art for many of the Foundation’s donors and friends the day before the collection was set to go to auction at Bonhams, one of the oldest and largest fine art auction houses in the world. The collection included over 75 works by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Auguste Rodin and many others.

Last spring the Committee also hosted a dinner at the Lamb’s Club in Midtown Manhattan that was designed to introduce the work of the College and the University Eye Center to a new audience of wealth managers and lawyers. Dozens of attendees listened to a presentation about SUNY Optometry, learning about its educational, patient care and research missions, and had the opportunity to speak directly with faculty members and administrators who were in attendance.

The Vision and the

Optometric Center of New York Board of Trustees

The Vision and the Promise Campaign Exceeds $10 Million Goal for SUNY College of Optometry Over 1,300 donors, including alumni, faculty, staff, foundations, corporations and others answered the call to support The Vision and the Promise: Campaign for SUNY College of Optometry. The campaign officially came to a close after a vote by the Board of Trustees of the Optometric Center of New York (OCNY) on October 1. By all measures it was as an unquestionable success, having exceeded its goal and raised $10.15 million. In September of 2009, the board of the OCNY, the foundation of the SUNY College of Optometry, voted to embark on an ambitious fundraising campaign—the first, formal campaign in the history of the College—to raise $10 million to provide critical support for the growing educational, patient care, research and community outreach needs of SUNY Optometry. Here are some of the ways in which The Vision and the Promise has directly benefited the multi-faceted mission of the SUNY College of Optometry and helped to change lives: • It provided more than $3.2 million of educational support, including 18 new scholarships for students. • It enabled thousands of New Yorkers to receive quality eye and vision care though the funding of a variety of community outreach efforts, including the Bowery Mission Project, the Indigent Patient Fund and the Homebound program. • It enabled state-of-the-art improvements for the University Eye Center, including the creation of a unique clinical care unit designed to test new technologies and alternative approaches to care. • It established a College-sponsored low vision clinic to serve a critical need in China. • It produced the first endowed chair in College history: the Dr. Alden N. Haffner Innovation Chair. • It helped to establish the College’s dynamic Clinical Vision Research Center. “The Vision and the Promise was absolutely essential for providing the means to enable the SUNY College of Optometry to continue to remain a vital, cutting-edge institution,” Mr. Richard Feinbloom, the outgoing president of the OCNY’s Board of Trustees said. “We launched this campaign during a very difficult economic moment and its success is an enormous testament to power of our institutional mission.” Over the course of The Vision and the Promise campaign, the OCNY raised more support than it had during any other five-year period in its history. The campaign received strong participation from College alumni, including the largest gift ever made by an alumnus. The OCNY Board of Trustees contributed over $3.8 million to the campaign and well over half of the College’s faculty and staff participated as well. In addition, foundation and corporate support for The Vision and the Promise accounted for over $2.3 million. “We’re very pleased with the breadth of support for the campaign from across our constituencies,” said Ms.

P r o m i se C a m p a i g n Ann Warwick, executive director of the OCNY and the College’s vice president for Institutional Advancement. “In addition to our wonderful board, our alumni as well as our faculty and staff, the ophthalmic industry and a lot of new supporters really demonstrated their belief in what we’re doing here. That is something that is very gratifying.” With the College still in the early stages of an ambitious new strategic plan that will run through 2018, SUNY Optometry’s president, Dr. David A. Heath, emphasized that the success of The Vision and the Promise campaign should act as a springboard for the future. “The work that we’re doing here now is only just beginning,” President Heath said. “I’m enormously pleased with the success of The Vision and the Promise, it has been the catalyst for initiatives that will enable us to remain on the forefront of the work that we do and maintain our position as a leader in health care. But there is much more work still to be done and my firm belief is that the success of this campaign will enable even greater success in the future. “I am also very grateful to our Board of Trustees and to Ms. Warwick for their leadership and excellent stewardship of the campaign,” President Heath continued. “Without their hard work the successful completion of this campaign would not have been possible.” Below is a listing of all of the donors who contributed to The Vision and the Promise. We thank you for your generous support and for your commitment to our mission:

“Congratulations to the entire SUNY Optometry co m m u n i t y on not only meeting bu t exce e d i n g the goal of its first fundraising campaign,” SUNY Chancellor Na ncy L . Z i m p h e r s a i d . “Private investment in our c a m p u s e s i s v i t a l a s we seek to increase access to a SUNY education, maintain affordability for our students and deliver on our strategic planning vision of serving as an economic driver for our state while improving the quality of life for everyone who lives and works in New York.”

Contributors to the Vision and the Promise Campaign Contributions that were made between September 14, 2009 – October 1, 2014 Pinnacle Society (Over $1,000,000) * Dr. William Folsom 1943

Diamond Society ($250,000-$999,999.99) Alcon Laboratories Essilor of America * Mark S. Feder, OD 1983 Mr. Richard Feinbloom Government of China Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc.

Estate of Dr. Leo Hurvich Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gehr George Link, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gund Jobson Medical Information LLC Johnson & Johnson Vision Care * Neera Kapoor, OD 1994 Luxottica Group Marco Family Foundation Marco Ophthalmics Merck & Co., Inc.

Mr. Harold Spielman * Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Spira 1949 Stavros Niarchos Foundation USA, Inc.

Luxottica Retail

Hugoton Foundation

Marchon Eyewear

The Hyde and Watson Foundation

Ms. Phyllis Milton

The Gaisman Foundation Topcon Medical Systems

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Frank Pirozzolo

Vision Service Plan

Reed Exhibitions

Ms. Jan Rose

Mr. Harold Wilshinsky

Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust

Ross Holdings, LLC

President’s Society ($25,000-$49,999.99)

Mr. Larry Roth

Sarah K. de Coizart Article FIFTH Charitable Trust

Mr. George Spiropoulos

Mrs. Shirley Solan

The Vision Council of America

The Chatlos Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Millman

* Julia J. Appel, OD 1991

Platinum Society ($50,000-$249,999.99)

New York State Optometric Association

* Sherry J. Bass, OD 1980

Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation

Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Allene Reuss Memorial Trust

Bausch & Lomb North American Vision Corp.

Visionary Society ($10,000-$24,999.99)

Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund

Abbott Medical Optics

Ms. Claudia Caruso Rouhana

Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.

Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc.

Allergan, Inc.

Ms. Barbara Saltzman

Mr. Thomas P. Farrell

DCF Advertising

The Central New York Community Foundation

Mr. Adam J. Sheer

The Friedfeld Family

Ernst & Young LLP

Beryl L. Snyder, Esq.

David A. Heath, OD, EdM

Mr. Milton Forman

Michael H. Heiberger, OD

Hertz, Herson & Co, LLP

Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation

* Richard Soden, OD 1979

Mr. Kevin Kelly

New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Optometry

* Alumni

Lydia Collins deForest Charitable Trust

The Phyllis and Arthur Milton Foundation The Wallace Fox Foundation Tides Foundation Transitions Optical, Inc. David Troilo, PhD Dr. Rafael L. Urquidi Vistakon * Shandor Zelenger, OD 1998

Innovator’s Society ($5,000-$9,999.99)

Founder’s Society ($1,000-$4,999.99)

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Aimi

American Academy of Optometry

Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry Mr. Barry Ballen Dr. and Mrs. Irving Bennett Mr. Alfred K. Berg Bloomingdale’s Brooks Brothers Group, Inc.

American Optometric Association American Optometric Foundation

* Annette P. Contento, OD and A. J. Contento, OD 1990 Edward V. Cordes, OD Ms. Ana Corsino Mr. Roger Cruttenden * Jennifer D’Amico, OD 1993 * Susan C. Danberg, OD 1984

Atlantic Crane

Mr. Claude Darnault

Dr. Nader Attia and Dr. Claire Attia

Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Dean

Diopsys, Inc.

* Robert B. Austin, OD 1995

Dr. and Mrs. David P. Dozack

* Samar Awad, OD 1992

David Dexter, OD * Gregory DiSanto, OD 1984 Paul Edelman, OD

Ethel Kennedy Foundation

AXA Foundation

Ms. May Ellis

Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP

Dr. Benjamin Backus and Dr. Carl Schaper

The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

Glenmede

* Peter S. Bae, OD 2000

FedEx Healthcare Solutions

Dr. Richard Hopping

Bank of America Foundation

Jerome M. Feldman, Ph. D.

Mr. Howard Justvig

Bard Group Travel/Journey Corp.

* Anna Marie Fernandez, OD 1985

Lianne Lazetera, Esq Ms. Nadine G. Lee, CPA * Richard J. Madonna, OD 1985 Ms. Liduvina MartinezGonzalez Mr. William J. Moran New Eyes for the Needy PentaVision LLC Quantel Medical Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD Saul Ewing, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Sides Dr. and Mrs. Richard Silver Mrs. Gretchen Stone SunGuard Financial Systems, LLC * Andrea P. Thau, OD, FAAO 1984 Valeant Pharmaceuticals N. A. Ms. Ann Warwick * Catherine Pace Watson, OD 1986

* Lenore Katz-Cohen, OD 1983 Mr. Nick Kavallieratos Keeler Motor Car Company Mr. Warren Kissin

REM Eyewear Dr. and Mrs. Alain Roizen

* Jeffrey Kraushaar, OD 1982 * Philip Kruger, OD, PhD 1984

Mr. Michael Block Stewart Bloomfield, PhD

Belle Frechtel, OD * Karen Fuhrman Kerner, OD 1992

Ms. Lisa Gendal * Susan Hsin-Mei Fong-Boarman, * M ark Andrew Gendal, OD OD 1998 1980 * Marie Irene Bodack, OD * Christopher Gentile, OD 1986 1998 * Juliana E. Boneta, OD 2008

Ms. Ruth Geoghan

* Linda J. Bornstein, OD 1984

GFK Retail and Technology

Bostwick Design Partnership

* Sandra Gluck, OD 1983

Mr. David A. Bowers

* Gwenda Gnadt, OD 1992

* Frank R. Bucciero, OD 1984 C & E Vision Group Dr. Harriette Canellos and * Dr. Evan Canellos 2000 Mr. Charles Cangro

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Weiss

* Thomas Chao, OD 1989 Charles Henry Leach II Foundation

Grand Metro Building Company, LLC Ms. Maria Graziano * David T. Gubman, OD, FAAO 1991 * Dean Evan Hart, OD 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hoffman * Gary A. Holtzberg, OD 1988 * Mitchell I. Horowitz, OD 1991

* Michael Y. Chew, OD 1990

Ms. Roberta M. Howard

Mrs. Martha Yager

* Class of 2010

ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dr. J. Stanley Yake

* Class of 2011

Dr. Siret Jaanus and Dr. Jack Jurison

Allen Cohen, OD Cohen’s Fashion Optical Christopher J. Colburn, OD 1998

Jack Resnick & Sons Ms. Laura Jorgensen JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Mr. Lenny Roos * Irene Rosenberg, OD 1988

* David M. Krumholz, OD 1985

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Rosh

* Dickson Lee, OD 1999

Dr. James Ruhl

* Joshua E. Leif, OD 1999

Safilo USA

Mr. Jared S. Levy

Santinelli International

Mrs. Margaret Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Satnick

Lions Club of Patchogue

* Leonard J. Savedoff, OD 1979

Mr. Steven J. Litner

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Schloss Mr. Jack Schmitt and Mrs. Sylvia Picard Schmitt

Ms. Jodi Malcom

* Robert S. Fox, OD 1985

* Dr. Stephen W. Record and Dr. Carol J. Dibble Record 1982

Harry R. M. Koster, MD

Lombart Instrument

* Paul Berman, OD, FAAO 1976

RBS Citizen Programs

Mr. and Mrs. John Koehler

First Vision Media Group * Susan S. Fisher, OD 1982

Mr. Stephen Rappaport

ReedSmith LLP

Fiduciary Trust Company

Bela and Catharine Schick Foundation Inc.

* Meenakshi Ramachandran, OD 1991

Harvey R. Kitay, Esq.

BCG Partners

* Ms. Christine C. Chang

* Denise M. Whittam, OD 1991

Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Katz

Barry Barresi, PhD

Gary Weiner, OD

Mr. Richard Weiss and Ms. Natalie Angier

* Evan Kaplan, OD 1990

Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Mariani

Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Herb Schwartz

Ms. Corinne McCormack

Steven H. Schwartz, OD, PhD

Mr. Wayne McGee

SECO International

* Michael McGovern, OD 1997 Mercer Matching Gifts Program Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Mr. Mort Sheinman Arnold Sherman, OD * Michael J. Siegel, OD 1991

* Scott I. Morrison, OD 1985

Mr. Warren Simon

* Rochelle L. Mozlin, OD 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Solan

Mr. James Murphy Nationwide Vision New York University School of Medicine Mr. Michael A. Nieminen, AIA * Suzanne Offen, OD 1983 Office of the Commissioner of Baseball

Ms. Kelly Sondey Mr. David Sosnow Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Spear Spectrios Institute for Low Vision * Joseph M. Stamm, OD, FAAO 1982 Sterling Vision

Mr. Dean Palin

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Sukoenig

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Tabone

* Ofelia Perez-Sanchez, OD 1989 Jeffrey L. Philpott, PhD * Linda S. Pinsky, OD 1982 Robert T. Plevy, Esq. * Joan K. Portello, OD, MPH, MS 1986 and Stephen M. Pereira, B.Optom, B.Sc PricewaterhouseCoopers

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Tarica TD Bank, N.A. The Frederick J. Haug Family Foundation TLC Vision Mr. and Mrs. Vasili Tsamis U. S. Trust Union Bank United Realty Vision Source, LP

Vision West

Mr. and Mrs. Manuel DaSilva

Mr. and Mrs. Philip McFarland

Switch Vision

Ms. Aliza Aufrichtig

VisionWeb

Jack L. Devore, OD 1979

Mr. Geoff Moss

The Baruch College Fund

Ms. Gaea Austin

Mr. and Mrs. Fredric E. von Stange Ms. Virginia Wages-Plotkin * Douglas F. Weiss, OD and Victoria Molnar Weiss, OD 1989 Wells Fargo Insurance West New York Leones Cubanos de Hudson Dr. Clifton Wharton G. Warren Whitaker, Esq. Mrs. E. Patricia Willner Mr. Andrew Wilshinsky Mr. Stephen J. Wilshinsky Mr. and Mrs. James J. Wilson * Thomas A. Wong, OD 1989 Woodhull Medical Group Mr. and Mrs. Ira Zankel Mr. Steven M. Zelin * Eleonora Zusman-Orloff, OD and Eugene Orloff, OD 1999

Promise Society ($500-$999.99) * Anonymous 1988

* Kari DiPrima-Riina, OD 1994

* Spencer Moy, OD 1988

* Pamela E. Theriot, OD 2002

Mr. Mark Dlugoss

Gloria S. Neuwirth, Esq.

* Kelly H. Thomann, OD 1989

Mr. Daniel T. Donnelly

New York University

John C. Townsend, OD

Ms. Ellen Baberadt

William F. O’Connell, OD

Ms. Donna M. Trinko

Ms. Mindy Bach

Dr. Paul A. Tunick

Mr. Luisito Bacosa

Visions & Beyond Ltd.

Alice Bade, OD

Suresh Viswanathan, PhD and Tracy Nguyen, OD, PhD

Ms. Barbara Bai

Mr. Jan Dorman Dr. Paula Elbirt and Mr. Hershal Engel Eschenbach Optik of America, Inc. Joseph Eviatar, MD * Michael Feinstein, OD 1975 * Brian Fengel, OD 1985 * Lawrence Forur, OD 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Franke * Benjamin M. Freed, OD 1982 Lee I. Freundlich, OD 1982 Ms. Jen Friedlin * Arlene E. Friedman-Minkoff, OD 1983 Future Funds LLC * Paul R. Galstian, OD 1991 Mr. Anthony Giliberto Charles Gold, OD Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Gordon * Robert J. Grasso, OD 1978 Israel Greenwald, OD

Diane Adamczyk, OD

Malcolm Gross, Esq.

Ms. Linda Amster

Mr. Mitchel Hirsch

* Alan M. Bagun, OD 1980 Dr. Ruth Baines Dr. and Mrs. William R. Baldwin Debra L. Bashkoff, OD 1992 * Robert C. Bauman, OD 1977 * Stephen A. Beckerman, OD 1982 * Samuel S. Belkin, OD 1984 * Jaclyn A. Benzoni, OD 2009 Ms. Carol Burger Osvaldo Carde, LPN Mr. and Mrs. In Seung Chun * Ida Chung-Lock, OD 1993 * Harry G. Churchill, Jr., OD 1986 * David N. Ciccone, OD 1995 ClearVision Optical * Roy B. Cohen, OD 1983

* Eric Orava, OD 1986 Pacific Northern * Jaya Madhuri Pathapati, OD 1998 Pearle Vision

* Frances M. Ward, OD 1985

Mrs. Virginia Wages-Plotkin * Elizabeth H. Pradhan, OD 1992

Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Weis Mr. Steve Weiss

* Vito Proscia, OD 1991

* Elizabeth K. Wickware, OD 2010

* Scott J. Richter, OD 1975

* Richard Winnick, OD 1983

* Steven Ritter, OD 1988

* Eva Yan, OD 1982

Dr. John D. Robinson * Theresa Rostkowski-Tanzil, OD 1990 and Henry J. Tanzil, OD 1989 * Stuart M. Rothman, OD 1979 * Neil Rubin, OD 1988 Dr. and Mrs. Louis I. Rubins Dr. Joseph T. Ruggiero

Steven M. Zalaznick, OD Qiuhua Zhang

Friend’s Society ($1-$499.99) * Anonymous 1983 * Anonymous 2000 79 Music Studio Inc.

Mrs. Georgina Sager

* Joyce M. Abdenour, OD 1984

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Santinelli

* Joseph Accettura, OD 1983

Dr. Barry S. Savits * Sandy Saychaleune, OD 1993

Mr. Jack Ades * Margaret E. Adubor, OD 2002

Schall & Ashenfarb, CPAs, LLC

Mr. Oladapo Adurogbola

A. W. Schlesinger

Mark Ainsworth, OD

* Dr. and Ms. John F. Insinga 1997

Schlesinger, Gannon & Lazetera LLP

Guilherme Albieri, PhD

* Steve E. Jacobs, OD 1986

Mr. and Mrs. F. William Schmergel

Dr. and Mrs. Pascal J. Imperato

Mr. Arthur Jankolovits Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College & Graduate School * Marlene Jurman, OD 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kahn

Mr. Fred Schwartz * Arnold Semel, OD 1979 * Charles M. Shiel, OD 1976 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Shuldiner

Judge Bentley Kassal

* Margaret M. Siegrist, OD 1984

Florence Kavaler, MD

* Howard Silverstein, OD 1977

Mr. Charles Kyriacou

Dr. Andrew Edmund Slaby

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Laterman

* Floyd M. Smith, OD 1982

Mr. Joel Levin Ms. Roberta Lobel Marjorie Tallman Educational Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence May

* Michael P. Spellicy, OD 1979 Mr. and Mrs. James Spingarn Edward Steinberg, OD * Audra Steiner, OD 2001 Irwin B. Suchoff, OD Edward Sukoff, OD and Libby Sukoff, OD

Mr. Dorrick Alexander

Ms. Norma Ayala * Yelena Babayeva, OD 2005

Ms. Rosalie Bakal Ms. Ruth H. Bakal Mr. D. Fredrick Baker Jerry L. Baker, OD * Stephen M. Baker, OD 2002 Ms. Wilma Bakst Katherine Baltis-Levy, OD Ms. Martha Barg * Ania Barkhordaryan, OD 2007 * Michael J. Bartiss, OD, MD 1980 Mr. Philip Bates * Geri Bauer, OD 1987 Ms. Jane Bauer * Justin Bazan, OD 2004 Dr. Ann Beaton and Mr. Neil Beaton Mr. Jeffrey Becker * Steven Becker, OD 1981 * Theodore Becker, OD 1977 * Christine M. Beers, OD 1985 Ms. Traci Begley * Motryja C. Bejger, OD 2002 Ms. Nikita Bely

* Steven Ali, OD 1982

Ms. Elizabeth Bengelsdorf

* Rosine Alianakian, OD 1997

Andrew Berger, OD

Dr. Jose Manuel Alonso * Robert Ancona, OD 1997 Ms. Susan Andrews Mrs. Erin Angarola * James Patrick Anglim, Jr., OD 1998 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Anslow * Chinwendu Anukwuem, OD 1990 * Kathy A. Aquilante, OD, PhD 1994

Edward Berger, OD Mr. and Mrs. Howard N. Bernard Mr. Peter Bernard * Andrea S. Bernstein, OD 1991 Ira Bernstein, OD * Keith Beylus, OD 1992 * Monica R. Bhasin, OD 2006 * Andrew I. Bienstock, OD 1998 Mr. Jamal D. Bilal Joseph Biondolillo, OD

* Areefa Arefin, OD 2006

* Jillia E. Bird, OD 1989

* Dawn M. Arnold, OD 1991

* Donald A. Bisek, OD 1992

Ms. Aubrey Assim

* John C. Blackley III, OD 1980

Stuart Blankman, OD Brian E. Bleiler, OD Mr. Robert I. Bodian Jennifer Boggie, OD Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bory * Tiffany Boswell, OD 2003 Mr. Bret Boudi Mr. and Mrs. Neil Brody Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Bromberg Ms. Nancy Brown and Mr. Keith Brown

* Natasha R. Chawla, OD 1994 Yu Ling Checo * Nathalie C. Chen, OD 2010 Mr. Wayne Chen * Vicki L. Chenarides, OD 1986 Allen Chin, OD Lillian Chin, OD Mr. William Chin Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Chiodi Dawn Chivers, OD

Pamela Brown, OD

Gloria Chow, OD

Ms. Jennifer Budner Jordan

Mr. David C. Christopher

Nancy M. Bulas-Wadas, OD

* John T. C. Chu, OD 1978

Mr. Clifton Bullard

Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Chu

Mr. Chet Burchett

Mr. Frank Chui

Stanley B. Burns, MD Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Bushinger * Scott Bushinger, OD 2007 Brandon Butler, OD * Andrew Buzzelli, OD 1979

* James A. Ciccarelli, OD 1992 * Zenon Ciopyk, OD 1983 *Karl Citek, OD, PhD 1993 * John J. Clark, OD 1982 Ms. Mary Cobb

Robert Byne, OD

Alan Cohen, OD

Cafe Press Inc.

Ms. Blanche Cohen

Theodore Calabrese, OD

* Jay M. Cohen, OD 1978

Mr. Elias Caleshu

Joseph Cohen, OD

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calogero

Madeline Cohen, OD 1994

* Sandra Cammilleri-Kellett, OD 1994

* Sandra J. Cohen, OD 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Campagna * Joseph Capetola, OD 1983 Dr. Lester Caplan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Caprio * Michael F. Carelli, OD 1990 * Tanya L. Carter, OD 1987 * Benjamin Casella, OD 2008 * Tonya Castro, OD 2004 Mr. Marcel Catafago Ms. Lorraine Catalano Mr. Vito J. Cavallaro * Yvette Cavalli, OD 2005 Center for Excellence in Low Vision & Vision Rehabilitation Central New York Optometric Society Leonard Chaifetz, OD Mr. Wilford Charles * Henry K. Chaung, OD 1983

Mr. Tal Cohen * Peter Colangelo, OD 1984 * Jennifer Colavito, OD 1999 Mr. Louis D. Colletti Ms. Giselle Colon Ms. Kastilia Colon * Dr. Scott A. Colonna 2001 and Dr. Theresa J. Colonna 2002 Ms. Virginia Concepcion * William Conforti, OD 1985 Joseph Conigliaro, OD Ms. Dawn Conover * Jeannette Cooper, OD 2009 * Jeffrey Cooper, OD 1978 * Neil Cooper, OD 1980 Judith G. Copeland, OD Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Corrao Mr. and Mrs. Paul Corrente * Paul R. Cosenza, OD 1982 John J. Costello, OD

* Daniel I. Cotlowitz, OD 1980 * Richard P. Crinigan, OD 1949 Ms. Lesley Crum Crum & Forster * Dr. Asima Cuevas and Mr. Domingo Cuevas 2001 Mr. Ruben D. Cuevas * David A. Damari, OD 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo Ms. Christine A. Dascher and Mr. Christopher C. Dascher Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Davidovic Dr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Davis * Janine Davis Watkins, OD 1987 Mr. Steve De Pinto * Nathan DeDeo, OD 2005 Heather Deere, OD * Mary Ann DeFrank Gioia, OD 1984 Ms. Karen DeGazon * Richard Del Bianco, OD 1984 * Emmanuel Dela Cruz II, OD 2010 Mr. Igor Demburg * Thomas A. Dempsey, OD 1991 * Nick Despotidis, OD 1986 * Sumati B. Deutscher, OD 2001 * Andrew J. Di Mattina, OD 2005 Ms. Ellen Diamond Adis Diaz, OD * Nicolino DiBenedetto, OD 1984 * Christopher J. DiGiorgio, OD 1992 Dion Money Management, LLC Michelle DiTusa, OD Dr. Rose W. Dobrof * Anne Dodgen-Averitt, OD 2010 * Walter Donach, OD 1984 Mr. and Mrs. William Donovan Anne M. Downey, OD * Changmin Duan, OD 1990

Mr. Joseph Dubreil Robert Duckman, OD

* Michael Fischer, OD 1983

Ms. Donna Dudek

Mr. Gregg Fisher

Mitchell Dul, OD

David E. FitzGerald, OD

* David James Dupont, OD 1989 Ms. Hannah Dushay * Lacey Dustin, OD 2009 * Keith M. Dworkin, OD 1984 * Thu-Ha D. Easter, OD 1999 * S. B. Eiden, OD and Carol L. Barron, OD 1981 Mr. Arthur Eisenberg Ms. Doris Eisenberg Jack Eisner, OD * Tybee Eleff, OD 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Elgarten Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Emond * Ronit Englanoff-Hulkower, OD 1993 Burt Eschen, OD Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Esernio Mr. and Mrs. Frank Espinosa

Mr. Tom Flagg Ms. Teresa Florendo Flushing Smile Dental PC * Kirk Flynn, OD 1993 * Anastasios Fokas, OD 1996 Robert W. Ford, OD Lawrence S. Forgacs, OD * Brad Fortune, OD 1991 Mr. John Fortune Frederick Fouquet, OD Salvatore Fradella Mr. Christopher R. Fragnito * Laurel A. Freedman, OD 1984 * Steven M. Friedland, OD 1990 David M. Friedman, OD * Harold Friedman, OD 1973 Stuart A. Friedman, OD * Ted R. Friedman, OD 1980

Ms. Jessilin Estevez

Friends of Firefighters

Ms. Jane E. Evans

Bridget Frio, OD

* Miriam Evans, OD 1985 * Dorothy A. Ewald, OD 1992 Eyewear Designs, LTD. * Diane L. Fabery-Lavelle, OD 1995 Fabric Care Friends at SMG Jack Facchin, OD Faculty Student Association * Rodney Fair, OD 1983 Barry J. Farkas, OD * Daniel Farkas, OD 1989 Ms. Letisha Farrell Doron Feder, OD Ms. Helen Fein * Joel J. Feintuch, OD 1983 * Elena Feldman, OD 2002 Ms. Helene Feldman Ms. Xiomara Feliciano Ms. Lois A. Fentress Michael Ferri, OD and * Jennifer Ferri, OD 2009 Charles Fields, OD * Martin E. Fields, OD 1973 Fifth Third Bank Ms. Guerda Fils

Murray Fingeret, OD

Richard A. Frio, OD * Kristen Lynne Fry, OD 1998 * Morton Gage, OD 1948 Gregory Gaglioti, OD Mr. Al Gamble * Steven J. Ganz, OD 1981 Dr. Edward S. Gates Ms. Barbara Gebhardt * Kevin D. Geiger, OD 1992 * Manisha B. Geiger, OD 1996 * Mindy S. Gelbart, OD 1986 Seth M. Gerchberg, OD * George Gero, OD 1977 * Dana L. Getz, OD 1984 Mr. Ben Geyerhahn * Michael Ghossn, OD 1984 Ms. Catherine Giamenelli * Valerie Giangrande, OD 2001 Rosamond Gianutsos, PhD * Margaret L. Gibson, OD 2004 * Christina M. R. Giles, OD 2006

Ms. Donna H. Gindy * Rosemary A. Giovinazzo, OD 1987 Steven Givner, OD

Mr. John W. Hail and Ms. Lora G. Hail Demetra Hamakiotes, OD Ms. Margaret R. Hambrick

Richard J. Glenn, OD

* Jae H. Han, OD 2006

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Golan

* Myoung Hee Han, OD 2001

* Carly M. Goldberg, OD 2010 Edward Goldberg, OD Ira Goldberg, OD Ms. Jill R. Golde * Judith E. Golden, OD and Andrew S. Luck, OD 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Goldfarb * Jeremy P. Goldman, OD 2002 * Traci M. Goldstein, OD 2003 Ms. Irma Gomez * Deborah Goodman, OD 1984 GoodSearch Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gootter * Kirk C. Gopie, OD 1998 Ms. Caryl Gordon * Sari Lee Gordon, OD 1981 * Paula N. Gorlin, OD 1985 Ms. JoEllen Gorman Mr. and Mrs. George P. Goulard Vincent B. Graniero, OD Ms. Jane Graver Ms. Pauline Graziano Mr. and Mrs. Anthony N. Greco * Robert S. Greenbaum, OD 1984 Mark L. Greenberg, OD * Natalie Greenberg, OD 1978 * Susan L. Greenberg, OD 1987 Sidney Groffman, OD * Elaina M. Groo, OD 1993 * Laurel Beth Gropper, OD 1982 Mr. Bernard Grossman * Marc R. Grossman, OD 1980

* Bruce R. Hankin, OD 1981 * Beth Harper, OD 2007 * Gordon Harris, OD, FAAO 1973 Mr. S. David Harrison and Mrs. Roberta Karmel Harrison Elizabeth Harvey, OD Paul Harvey, OD Ms. Mary P. Hass * Shelly R. Hay, OD 1998 Marc S. Hecker, OD Mrs. Ruth Heisler Jina M. Heo Saquan Herring * Steven M. Hertzberg, OD 1986 Mrs. Louise Herz * Donald Q. Hewett, OD 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Hillman Ms. Marilyn Hoffman Charles S. Hollander, OD * Robert H. Hornberger, OD 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Altaf Hossain Mr. Greg Houle *Susan Hsu, OD 1985 * Angela C. Huang, OD 2006 * Stephen Huang, OD 1999 * Euphemia Huggins-Williams, OD 1985 Mrs. Hortense Hurwitz Ms. Ilana Hyman * John D. Iamele, OD 1988 Norman Ihrig, OD * Steven Ihrig, OD 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ingolia Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation * Carol A. Isaacowitz-Weber, OD 1984 Ms. Kathleen Ivans * Carol Ann Iwinski, OD 1992

Thomas Gullotti, OD

* LCDR Kevin M. Jackson, OD 1998

Scott Hage, OD

* Kathleen Johnson, OD 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Johnson * Arthur Jung, OD 2003 Staff at the Office of Dr. Ronald Millman * Rupal Kaistha, OD 2004 and Arun K. Kaistha, OD 2004 * George Kaknis, OD 1988 * John Kaknis, OD 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Kale Thomas Kaminska, OD Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kane Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Kaplan Richard A. Kasparian Jordan Kassalow, OD Mr. and Mrs. David Katcher * Irina Katkovskaya, OD 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Katz * Theodore Katz, OD 1973 Mr. Daniel Kay Dr. and Mrs. Martin Kay Fenton O. Keister Irrevocable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Kerning * Lisa D. Kharrazi, OD 1986 * Ronald Kichura, OD 1984 * Christine M. Kim, OD 1991 Mr. Young Sik Kim * William E. Kimball, OD and Liann Kimball, OD 1984 * Bo Yung King, OD 2002 Ms. Nancy Kirsch

Ralph Kornblatt, OD * Chari Kornheiser, OD 1994

Levy, Stopol & Camelo, LLP

* Karen Tracy Kosowsky, OD 1998

Mrs. Eileen Lewis-Lurin

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kovner Robert F. Krall, OD Mr. and Mrs. Kreinik Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kruger * Galina Kruglyakova, OD 2004

Charles Klein, OD * Linda M. Kleinhenz, OD 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Klier * Sandy R. Kline, OD 1985 Ms. Dawn Kobreek Mr. and Mrs. Eric Koh * Jennifer Koh, OD 2011 Kevin Komm, OD * Tanya Kontorovich, OD 1992 Julius Kornberg, OD Martin Kornblatt, OD

* Catherine A. Linenberg, OD 2001 * Margaret Lipani, OD 1989

Mr. John Loftus

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Kuhn

Mr. Francisco Lomparte

* William K. Kwik, OD 2001 * Daniel Lack, OD 1980

Leslie Long, OD * Laurence Lonky, OD 1982

Michele Lagana, OD

Mr. Concepcion Lopez

Ms. Martha Lain

Teresa Lowe, OD

Mr. and Mrs. Hon Yip Lam

Ms. Diana P. Ludlam and Dr. Ken Ciuffreda

Ken Landesman, OD * Lori Marie Landrio, OD 1997 Thomas Landry, OD Ms. Debra Lang Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Lapham Mr. and Mrs. Bill Lappan William J. Lapple, OD Steven Larson, OD Ms. Martha I. Lask Ms. JoAnn Lawton Alan Lax, OD * William J. Leahey, OD 1979 * Allison M. LeBlanc, OD 2009

Ms. Pamela Lederman

Ivan M. Klayman, OD

* Joseph N. Lieder, OD 1977

Ms. Brenda Litzky

Ms. Wendy Klang and Mr. William Christiansen

Col. and Mrs. Robert C. Klass

Ms. Joan Lieberman

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kuester

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick LeBlanc

* Brittany Klass, OD 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Liddell

Richard Krzyzak, OD

Barry T. Kissack, OD

Ms. Toby Klang Ward and Family

* Steven R. Levy, OD 1986

* Charissa K. Lee, OD 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Choon B. Lee * Stella L. Lee, OD 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Won Lee Ms. Susan Lee-Shareef * Robert J. Lehrer, OD 1980 * David L. Leibstein, OD 1996 Ms. Cathy Leidersdorff Ms. Betty Leistner * David Lelonek, OD 1986 * Clifford A. Lemkin, OD 1975 * Ena Leo, OD 1993 Ms. Liza Leon Mr. and Mrs. Brett Levay-Young Mrs. Elizabeth Leventhal Mr. Boris Levin * Marc A. Levinson, OD 1982

Lawrence Lupo, OD Luzerne Optical Laboratories Dennis Lynch, OD Ms. Alla Lyubomudrova Michael Madigan, OD * Kai Jing Mai, OD 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Hiroyasu Maki * Glenn Malat, OD 1994 Drs. Carl and Diana Malchoff Ms. Lorena Maldonado * Lisa Maltz, OD 1994 * Alisa P. Mandel, OD 1985 * Regina L. Manes, OD 1985 * Barbara C. Manion, OD 1986 * Marilyn Mann, OD 1984 Mr. Anthony Manzo Mr. Louis Manzo Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Maracic * Sergio Marano, OD 1983 Mrs. Denise Maras * Raymond E. Mariani, OD 1991 Mrs. Isabella Marinoff * Rebecca Marinoff, OD 2008 Dr. Adeline Markowitz * Jennifer M. Marques, OD 2006 * Marie Marrone, OD 1990 Ms. Nikita Martin * Edward S. Maslansky, OD 1980 * Katherine M. Mastrota, OD 1989

Grace Matos, OD Mr. Greg Matthews * Gerald G. Mattison, OD 1982

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Montenare Mr. Dwayne Moore * Henry H. Moore, OD 1997

Kent Maurer, OD

* Jodi M. Moore, OD 2004

John J. Maurillo, OD

* Albert M. Morier, OD 1982

Mark Maxon, OD MBNA America Bank Ms. Marghretta McBean Robert McCormick, OD Ms. Gloria McFarland Ms. Kelly McGrorty * Kimberly McHugh, OD 2009 Ms. Kathleen McInerney Kane Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Meade Ronald Meeker, OD

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Morley * Dr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Morra 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Morrisroe James O. Morse, OD * Tonia Mortelliti, OD 1984

* Maria A. Michalski, OD 1986 * Shefali Miglani, OD 2003 Richard Milan, OD Mr. and Mrs. David Miller Dean Miller, OD Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Miller Ms. Lisa K. Millman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Millman Dr. and Mrs. Don E. Mills Dr. and Mrs. Hormoz M. Minoui Mira Med Allan Mirkin, OD Ms. Wendy K. Misiaszek Mr. Todd Mitgang Mr. Evan Mittman Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mo Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Modesto Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moffson * Douglas F. Weiss, OD and Victoria Molnar Weiss, OD 1989 Anthony Mondo, OD

* Peter O’Connor, OD, MD 1995 Ms. Janet O’Dea * Maureen C. O’Dwyer, OD 1999 Odyssey Medical, Inc * Catherine Oehrlein, OD 1981 Gary Oliver, OD

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Neill

Edward Moylan, OD * Chi-Wai Mui, OD 1999 Laurie R. Mullen, DC

* Bernard A. Mullin, OD 1985

Merrill Lynch Matching Gifts Office

Mr. and Mrs. Edward O’Connell

Mr. Larry Moser

Mr. David Meis

* Michael David Melzer, OD 1983

* Sidney Oberstein, OD 1951

OMNI Eye Services

* Andrew Mulligan, OD 1984

Arthur Melyn, OD

Mr. Robert Nussbaum

Harvey Moscot, OD

Mr. Donald W. Meinig

* Bradley Meltzer, OD 1996

Ms. Marcia Numan Klug

* Melvin Munoz Guzman, OD 1989 Ms. Robin Murasso * Joseph Muscente, OD 1994 * Jacob Nachum, OD 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Nagel * Ted T. Namba, OD 1984 * David Naparstek, OD 1983 * Melania Napolitano, OD 2007

Mr. Frank Orehek * David S. Orenstein, OD 1979 Our Lady Star of the Sea School Brett Paepke, OD Charles W. Paepke, OD * Joseph Pagano, OD 1989 Ms. Jean Pak Ms. Ann Palmore-DeFazio and Mr. Frank DeFazio Joanne Palumbo Mozloom, OD * Shruti Pandya, OD 1993 * Eugene Parker, OD 1986

Ms. Christine Narvaez

* Lauren Parker, OD 2008

Mr. Muhammed Nasiru

* Desmond Parkin, OD 1988

Ms. Geraldine Nathanson

Gina M. Parsloe, OD

National Association of Medical Minority Educators Inc.

John R. Paskowski, OD

* Leon Nehmad, OD 1991 Gerald Nelson, OD Network for Good

Richard J. Paskowski, OD Paskowski-Weitz Optometrists, PC Mr. Mark Pasterick and Ms. Brenda J. Sarokhan

Charles H. Neu, OD

* Hanish Patel, OD 2008

Dr. Robert Newcomb

* Ralph A. Paternoster, OD 1982

Ms. Laurie Newitz Marvin Newman, OD Mr. and Mrs. King Man Ng Tze Ng * Tam P. Ngo, OD 1999 * Christine L. Ng-Yow, OD 1981 * Vaishali Nigam, OD 2009 * Lori S. Nishida, OD 1992 * Ann M. Nolan, OD 2010

Ms. Yodania Paulino * Karen M. Pearce, OD 1989 * Beth Pearlmutter, OD 1993 Mr. Rob Pellot Brian Peralta, OD * Karen M. Perekalsky, OD, FAAO 2006 Mr. Anthony Perez Ari Perez * Elisa B. Perreault, OD 1992

* Benjamin P. Peters, OD 2003

* Jill Waldman Rocke, OD 1984

* Raymond Pirozzolo, OD 2009

Mr. and Mrs. J. Manny Rodrigues

Mr. Drew Pizzo * John Plow, OD 1996 Mrs. Miriam Pogrow Dr. Jordan R. Pola Dean C. Polistina, MD, PhD Sebastian A. Polizzi, OD Ms. Carole H. Polsky Ms. Ramola Poonai Ronald H. Poulin, OD * Brian Powell, OD 1998 Cory Preston, OD * Ira Marc Price, OD 1987 Ms. Kimberly Price Richard Price, OD Mr. and Mrs. Luis Prietovelez Dr. and Mrs. Leon M. Protass * Richard W. Puente, OD 1984 QualCare, Inc. Nicholas Radetzky, OD Ms. Linda B. Radin and Mr. Robert A. Dushay * Anne I Rafal, OD 1984 Mrs. Savitri S. Ramnarine Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ramuno Ami Ranani, OD * Paula S. Rapaport, OD 1980 * Stuart M. Rappaport, OD 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rashti * Shelli L. Ravine, OD 1984 John Ray, OD Ms. Delcia Reid * Fran L. Reinstein, OD 1991 * Jeffrey E. Reisch, OD 1980 Steven Renner, OD and * Agnes S. Renner, OD 1984 * Susan A. Resnick, OD 1983 * Sheldon S. Retkinski, OD 1982 Ms. Marilyn Ribyat and Mr. Seymour Ribyat * Victor A. Richardson, OD 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Rissland Ms. Paula Roady

* Clifford A. Roffis, OD 1982 Mr. James C. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rohstedt * Miriam Rolf, OD 1995 * Maureen K Rolf Wallen, OD 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Romanyshyn * Stuart J. Rooder, OD 1951 * Debbie C. Roodner, OD 1981 * Monique Picard Root, OD 1984 Deborah S. Rose, OD * Neil C. Rosen, OD and Randy L. Schulman, OD 1991 Ms. Norma Rosenberg Mr. Donald M. Rosenblatt CPA Dr. Alfred A. Rosenbloom, Jr. * Jerry Rosenstein, OD 1976 Bruce Rosenthal, OD Kevin Rosin, OD * Lisa Cogen Roslyn, OD 1981 * Anna Janine Ross, OD 1998 Joseph Ross, OD * Kim E. Rothstein, OD 1997 * Irving Rovin, OD 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rubin * Lauren F. Rubin, OD 2000 Mr. and Mrs. William Ruffle * Theresa J. Ruggiero, OD 1987 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ruitenberg Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Rummler John Rundquist, OD * Diane M. Russo, OD 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russo Andrew Sacco, OD * Carl A. Sakovits, OD 1988 Ms. Tara Samuel * Elvira Santoro, OD 1995 Mrs. Somchitt Saphyakhajon * Robin Sapossnek, OD 1981

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sarinelli Sonal Sathe David Sausner, OD Mr. and Mrs. Kazumi Sawai * Catherine Scandiffio, OD 2000 Chester Scerra, OD Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sceusa

* Arkady Selenow, OD 1981

Mort Soroka, OD

* Christy A. Sell, OD 2001

Mr. Michael L. Spafford

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Severino * Steven Shaby, OD 1976 * Salvatore J. Shakir, OD 1977 * Gina C. Shao, OD 2003 Allen Shapiro, OD

Ms. Linda Schachtel

* Aarti Sharma, OD 2009

Mr. Douglas Schading

* Melissa Shear Langer, OD 2002

* Frederick C. Schamu, OD 1980 * Mary Beth Schanz, OD 1996 Mr. Adam Schefter * Samuel Schenker, OD 1989 * Michele M. Scherz, OD 1985 * Joseph A. Schkolnick, OD 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Jarod Schlesinger Ms. Denise Schliefer * Annalisa K. Schloss, OD 2003 Ms. Roslyn Schloss

* Melanie Shearer, OD 2009 * Mary Rita Sheehy, OD 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Shema Gerald J. Shepps, MD

* Ellen Kapiloff Shinberg, OD 1992 Theodore S. Shultz, OD Mr. Bernard L. Siben Mr. Todd Siben and Family Irwin D. Sicherman, OD Mr. and Mrs. Adam Silver

* Stuart Schrier, OD 1984

Mr. and Mrs. Babu Simon

* Michael Schroedl, OD 1981

Mr. Kennard Singh

Sharon L. Schutz, OD Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Schwartz * Arlene E. Schwartz, OD 1989 * Elliot Schwartz, OD 1996 * Roberta Schwartz-Flaschner, OD 1983 * Stephanie H. Schwarz Sailor, OD 2000 Dr. Clifford Scott and Dr. Mary Scott Mr. Anthony Sebok SEE, Inc. Glenn A. Seifert, OD

* Andrew D. Stack, OD 1985 Mark Stadlen, OD James Stafford, OD * Henry S. Stanger, OD 1952

* Laura A. Sinski, OD 1992 Ms. Diane Siracusa Mr. and Mrs. Ongarj Siriamonthep

Ms. Fiona Tilley Time Warner Cable Business Class

Ms. Norma K. Weitman

Miss Nicole M. Totans

Bernard H. Weitz, OD

* Lynn H. Trieu, OD 2009 * Jessica Tse-Riehl, OD 2001 * Laura Tujak, OD 1993 Mr. Nicholas J. Ullrich II * Paula M. Ulmer Schutz, OD 1978

Sonia Valle, OD 1996 Ms. Ana Veras * Frank S. Verdone, OD 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Narciso Vergara Justin J. Verrone, OD

* Carrie Strauss, OD 2004

Mr. Al Villavecchia

* Marjorie J. Strelzyn-Witt, OD 1986

Mr. Jorge Villon

Steven Strom, OD * Sam M. Stumer, OD 1991 * Diane Suarez, OD 1994 Success Starts Now Libby Sukoff, OD Ms. Tracie Sultan Ms. Perle Suna Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas R. Suozzi Mr. and Mrs. Thira Suppiphatvong

David Vinci, OD Ms. Victoria Vitug John Viviani, OD * Laura S. Vota, OD 1996 * Marilyn Vricella, OD 1997 Mr. and Mrs. Dan S. Wages Ms. Mildred L. Wages Ms. Lois Wagner * Kai Wing Wai, OD 1983 * Meredith Walburg, OD 2007 * David Wallach, OD 1987

* Marie Sison, OD 1994

* Dora Szymanowicz, OD 2011

* Joel F. Sklar, OD 1982

Wayne Tabachnick, OD

Mr. Ken Walton

Mr. Stanley Talbi

Mr. Ken Walton

* Patricia Skraparis, OD 1992 * Adam Sloane, OD 2008 * Samantha Slotnick, OD 2004 * Andrew P. Smith, OD 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Smith Ms. Nancy W. Smith Mijin Sohn, OD Ms. Debby Solan Harold A. Solan, OD * Bonnie J. Solomon Orbach, OD 1983 * Kenneth Sorkin, OD 1993 * Steven Sorkin, OD 1993

* Grace Tan, OD 2007 Barry Tannen, OD Mr. Kosrow Taslim-Saravi and Ms. Fariba Rasooly Rabbi and Mrs. Harvey Tattelbaum * Gabriel Taub, OD 1996 Mr. and Ms. Mitchell J. Taube Ms. Kathleen Tengbe

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Weisburgh

Ms. Bethshally Torres

Amy B. Stein-Glick, OD 1998

Ms. Harriet Stone

Robert Weisberg, OD 1938

Mr. Jeffrey H. Weiss and Ms. Lori S. Weiss

Mary Vadas, OD

* Debra M. Stone, OD 1991

Ms. Jill Weinstein

Ms. Annette Topilow

Robert A. Stearns, OD

Richard Stewart

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Silverstein

Mrs. Mildred D. Schulz

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Springer

* Wae Shin, OD 1992

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Schneider

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Schultz

Mr. Allan Spivack

Ms. Eleanor Steinholtz

* Marc M. Silverman, OD 1975

David B. Schultz

Ms. Lorraine Speights * Laura C. Sperazza, OD 1992

* Mark Sherstinsky, OD 2002

* Janet R. Schmukler, OD 1985

* Susan Pinto Schuettenberg, OD 1989

* Angela E. Spaman Gardner, OD 1997

The Commons Homeowners Association

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Walter

Ms. Yue Wang * Jeffrey P. Warshay, OD 1984 * Joel H. Warshowsky, OD 1976 Ms. Anita S. Wasserman * Jonathan Wasserstein, OD 1998 Thomas Webb, OD

Ms. Elaine Wells * Joseph A. Wende, OD 1982 * Aleksandra A. Wianecka, OD 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Williams Jeffrey S. Williams, OD Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Williams Yvonne Williams, OD Mr. Akeema Wilson Wink Productions, Inc. * James E. Winnick, OD 1997 Ryan Winters, OD Ms. Darlene A. Witherspoon Mr. Donald B. Wittman and Ms. Mary L. Vertigan Reem Wlaschin, OD * Russell M. Wohl, OD 1983 Mr. Philip Wolitzer Patricia Woo, OD 2007 * Mark D. Woodward, OD 1984 Titary Wu * Lucy S. Wun, OD 1999 Mr. Leonard Wurzel * Richard Wurzel, OD 1980 Mr. Kenneth L. Wyse * Jessica Yang, OD 2004 Ms. Patricia Yeakel Michael J. Yellen, OD * Heidi Y. Ying, OD 1999 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Yip Mr. Scott Young * Ellen H. Yun Castro, OD 1989 * Bora A. Yurter, OD 1997 Ms. Katy Zhang

Ms. Rona L. Weber

* Mehreen Zia, OD 2011

* Eric P. Tennenbaum, OD 1988

David L. Weinberger, OD 1985

* Arlene H. Ziedenweber Schwartz, OD 1983

* Janna L. Teytel, OD 2002

Kenneth M. Weiner, OD 1979

* Allen F. Zuck, OD 1980

* Joseph Zupnick, OD 1984

F i n a n c i a l Sources of Funds Y ear

201 2-1 3

201 3-1 4

State Appropriation – Core Budget

9,822,291

$ 9,822,291

Appropriation based on Tuition, fees

7,500,816

$ 8,184,200

Appropriation based on Clinic Pledge, Pooled Offset

$ 3,043,784

$ 3,143,000

Campus Generated Revenues in excess of State Appropriation

6,912,112

$ 7,492,042

Research Foundation

3,173,941

$ 3,058,834

From (To) Fund Balance Reserves

1,138,005

$ (1,168,753)

$ 31,590,949

$ 30,531,614

Tota ls

Expenditures

Payroll ( Regular)

State Core Budget

$ 17,681,433

405,186

3,062,872

Campus Generated

138,476

2,480,537

$ 6,356,885

3,737,872

Payroll ( Temp )

Other Than Payroll

2013 -14

Other – SUTRA Research Foundation

$ 2,166,9w11

Tota ls

$ 23,586,216

2012-13

Payroll Payroll ( R egular) ( Temp )

$ 543,662

Total

21,149,491

—

858,327

$ 3,025,238

$ 6,401,736

$ 30,531,614

Other Than Payroll

Total

State Core Budget

$ 17,769,382

500,172

2,097,337

$ 20,366,891

Campus Generated

$ 189,000

$ 2,932,345

7,273,414

118,414

1,659,566

$ 3,832,230

$ 6,807,662

$ 31,590,949

4,152,069

Other – SUTRA Research Foundation Tota ls

2,172,664

$ 24,094,115

$ 689,172

Research Foundation SOURCES OF F UN DS

201 3 –1 4

E X P E N D I TU R E S

201 3–1 4

Sponsored Programs – Direct

$ 2,297,602

Sponsored Programs – Direct

$ 2,297,602

Indirect Cost Recovery

761,232

727,636

Tota l

$ 3,058,834

Total

SOURCES OF F UN DS

E X P E N D I TU R E S

201 2–1 3

$ 3,025,238

Sponsored Programs – Direct

$ 2,352,348

Sponsored Programs – Direct

$ 2,352,348

Indirect Cost Recovery

Tota l

821,594

$ 3,173,942

Total

1,479,882

$ 3,832,230

S UN Y COLL E G E O F O P TOM E T R Y L E AD E R S HI P College Council The Council is appointed by the governor with one member elected by and from the student body of the SUNY College of Optometry. In accordance with statutes and policies established by the State University of New York Board of Trustees, this Council advises the president on the operations and affairs of SUNY Optometry. The members also serve an essential role in the selection of the College’s president. They receive no compensation for their services. Gretchen Stone (Chair) David J. Dexter, OD David P. Dozack, OD

Charles Gold, OD Frank J. Pirozzolo, OD James R. Ruhl, PhD

Paula Ulmer Schutz, OD Vanessa Fimreite, ‘16

College Senior Administration David A. Heath, OD, EdM

Douglas Schading, MSEd

President

Director of Human Resources

David Bowers, MBA

Richard Soden, OD

Vice President for Administration and Finance

Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Executive Director of the University Eye Center

Greg Houle, MA Director of Communications

David Troilo, PhD

Jeffrey Philpott, PhD

Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs

Vice President for Student Affairs and International Programs

Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Ann Warwick, MA

Steven Schwartz, OD, PhD Director of Institutional Research and Planning

Optometric Center of New York Board of Trustees The work of the Optometric Center of New York has attracted a dedicated cadre of people who serve as its Board of Trustees. This group of men and women brings expertise in business, law, commerce, finance, real estate and philanthropy to their roles as caretakers of the Foundation’s endowment and supporters of its mission. Trustees serve three-year terms and make an annual financial commitment to the OCNY. Barbara Saltzman

George Spiropoulos

Richard Feinbloom

President

Treasurer

Immediate Past President

Adam J. Sheer

Ann Warwick

Vice President

Executive Director and Secretary

Trustees: Marge Axelrad Danielle Feder, ‘17 Thomas P. Farrell Willam C. Folsom, Jr., OD Dennis P. Gehr David A. Heath, OD, EdM

Kevin Kelly Harvey R. Kitay, Esq Lianne Lazetera, Esq Ronald Millman, OD Jan Rose Claudia C. Rouhana

Richard Soden, OD Harold M. Spielman Harold Wilshinsky J. Stanley Yake, PhD Laura Zavilensky, ‘16

Alumni Association Board The Board of the Alumni Association is an active group of College alumni that meets quarterly during the academic year. They each serve two-year terms. Executive Committee: Denise Whittam, OD ‘91

Julia J. Appel, OD ‘91

Anna Marie Fernandez, OD ‘85

President

Immediate Past President

Secretary

Samar Awad, OD ’92

Shandor Zelenger, OD ‘98

Vice President

Treasurer

Directors: Dr. Theresa Rostkowski ‘90 Dr. Vito Proscia ‘91

Dr. Karen Perekalsky ‘06 Dr. Jaclyn Benzoni ‘09

Dr. Diane Russo ‘10 Dr. Mark Gendal ‘80