3093.1 Eye Health Promotion Programs

Monday, November 9, 2009: 10:30 AM
Poster
The presenters of this poster session describe eye health promotion programs which identify and ameliorate unmet vision care needs in at-risk populations. Strategies for developing viable local community partnerships are presented. The challenges of program sustainability and outcome assessment will also be addressed.
Session Objectives: 1) Identify populations at risk for unmet vision care needs. 2) Design community-based targeted interventions. 3) Evaluate methods for assessing the impact of these programs.

Board 1
Michigan Glaucoma Awareness Outreach: Community education for a high risk population
Sarah Hinkley, OD
  
Board 2
Eyeglasses for All
Sanjiv Desai, MS, Rajiv Desai, DO, Farhan Karim, MD, Jessie McCann, MD and Phillida Roe, MBBS
Board 3
Addressing vision objectives through the Healthy Eyes Healthy PeopleŽ Program
Uzma A. Zumbrink, MPH, Jeffrey L. Weaver, OD and Timothy A. Wingert, OD
Board 4
InfantSEEŽ: A public health effort to provide comprehensive vision assessments to infants
Mark Schwartz, MPH, Glen T. Steele, OD FCOVD, Norma K. Bowyer, OD MS MPH FAAO, Pamela Lowe, OD, FAAO, Walter Morton, OD and James Spangler, OD
  
Board 5
Protect your Eyes! (Proteja sus Ojos)
Marcela Frazier, OD, MPH,FAAO, Uzma A. Zumbrink, MPH and Timothy A. Wingert, OD
Board 6
Improving children's vision health in Alabama: A community-academic partnership to build monitoring and evaluation capacity for long-term sustainability
Tianjing Li, Dr, Jeff Haddox, President & CEO, Lisa Maher, Director and Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH
Board 7
Multidisciplinary screening of an underserved Guatemalan population
Peter Russo, OD and Eileen Gable, OD
Board 8
Young, blind, and illegal: An unusual outcome of juvenile-onset glaucoma in an undocumented person
Mark Sherstinsky, OD,MPH candidate and Andre Stanberry, OD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Vision Care Section
Endorsed by: Social Work

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