National nonprofit Prevent Blindness to hold the 2024 Focus on
Eye Health Summit, a free virtual interactive event, July 10 and 11, 2024.
CHICAGO, May 1, 2024
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading eye
health and safety nonprofit organization, will host the 13th annual
Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit on July 10-11, 2024, as a virtual interactive event.
The theme for this year is "Being Seen and Heard," with the goal to
amplify and educate on the importance of a person-centered approach
to vision health interventions, research, communications, and
care.
"The year's Focus on Eye Health Summit will once again convene
leaders, experts, and stakeholders who are passionate about
advancing the vision and eye health of our nation and our world,"
said Jeff Todd, president and CEO of
Prevent Blindness.
This year's agenda is specifically designed to address a variety
of topics including how social determinants of health contribute to
increased or decreased eye health disparities; how innovative
strategies, emerging technologies, surveillance, and collaborative
approaches promote eye health; and how engaging individuals results
in reduced barriers to care as well as more meaningful policy,
research, and programs.
Participants and attendees of the Focus on Eye Health Summit
include a wide, international audience of patient advocates,
community-based organizations, vision and eye health organizations,
researchers, public health experts, health-care providers,
educators, government agency and legislative staff, corporate
partners and more.
All are invited to network using the summit's chat features and
follow the event on Prevent Blindness social media platforms at
#EyeSummit.
The Summit will kick-off on Wednesday,
July 10, with keynote speaker Stacey
B. Lee, JD, Professor of Law and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
presenting on "The Patient Voice." Following the presentation will
be a reaction panel and discussion.
Additional presentations on day one of the 13th Annual Focus on
Eye Health Summit will include:
- Vision Research and the Citizen Scientist
- Moderator: Mabel Crescioni,
DrPH, JD, Senior Engagement Officer, Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute
- Priscah Mujuru, DrPH, MPH, RN, Health Scientist Administrator,
Division of Community Health and Population Science, National
Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Kristen Nwanyanwu, MD, MBA, MHS,
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science,
Yale University
- Seeing and Hearing Children's Vision Needs
- Moderator: Phil Goglas II, MPAP,
Managing Partner, Health and Medicine Council
- Sara D. Brown, MPA, Director of
Government Affairs, Prevent Blindness
- Karen Woodhouse, Director, Eyes
on Learning
Additionally, Prevent Blindness Board of Directors Emeritus
member, Sandra S. Block, OD, MEd,
MPH, President, World Council of Optometry, Professor Emeritus,
Illinois College of Optometry, will
formally present the 2024 Jenny
Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health to
nonprofit group, Mission for Vision.
The fifth annual Prevent Blindness Rising Visionary Award will be
presented to Erica Shelton, OD, MS,
FAAO, Clinical Instructor and PhD Candidate, The Ohio State University College of Optometry.
July 11, day two of the Prevent
Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit, will begin with a fireside
chat on "The Human Side of AI in Healthcare." Randall L. Rutta, Chief Executive Officer,
National Health Council and Brian
Anderson, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Health
AI (CHAI) will have a discussion on the importance of
person-centered approaches to artificial intelligence in the future
of healthcare.
Additional day two presentations and discussions will
include:
- The Many Eyes in Artificial
Intelligence
- Moderator: Sally L. Baxter, MD,
MSc, Chief for Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science,
University of California San
Diego
- Louis R. Pasquale, MD, FARVO,
Site Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Mount Sinai Hospital,
Shelley and Steven Einhorn Professor of Ophthalmology, Director,
Eye and Vision Research Institute of New York Eye & Ear at
Mount Sinai
- Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, Founder and Executive Chairman,
Digital Diagnostics
- Cecilia Lee, MD, MS, Professor
of Ophthalmology and the Klorfine Family Endowed Chair, Department
of Ophthalmology, University of Washington
- Benjamin Xu, MD, PhD, Associate
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Chief of the Glaucoma Service,
Director of the Data Science and AI Core at the USC Roski Eye Institute
- Visible Voices: Vignettes of Being Seen
and Heard
- Moderator: Julie Grutzmacher,
MSW, MPH, Director of Patient Advocacy & Population Health
Initiatives, Prevent Blindness
- Larry Johnson, Prevent Blindness
ASPECT Patient Engagement Program Graduate
- Joy Thomas, DoubleVision Blog,
Prevent Blindness ASPECT Patient Engagement Program
Graduate
- Jeanetta Price, Prevent
Blindness ASPECT Patient Engagement Program Graduate
The Focus on Eye Health Summit is made available at no cost to
attendees thanks to the support of the event sponsors. To date, the
Alliance for Aging Research is serving as a Platinum Sponsor. Gold
sponsors include Amgen Rare Disease, Apellis Pharmaceuticals, and
BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization). Silver sponsors are
Alexion, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association for
Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, BrightFocus Foundation, The
EyeSight Foundation of Alabama,
Glaucoma Research Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Kyowa Kirin,
Lions Clubs International Foundation, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals,
Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation, and Research to Prevent
Blindness.
"The year's Focus on Eye Health Summit will once again convene
leaders, experts, and stakeholders who are passionate about
advancing the vision and eye health of our nation and our world,"
said Jeff Todd, president and CEO of
Prevent Blindness. "We invite everyone to register today and take
part in this significant event and the important dialogue it
encompasses!"
To register for the 2024 Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health
Summit, visit PreventBlindness.org/eyesummit. For information about
sponsorship opportunities, please contact Nita Sinha, Director of Public Health, at
EyeSummit@PreventBlindness.org.
About Prevent Blindness
Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness is the nation's leading
volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting
blindness and saving sight. Focused on promoting a continuum of
vision care, Prevent Blindness touches the lives of millions of
people each year through public and professional education,
advocacy, certified vision screening and training, community and
patient service programs and research. These services are made
possible through the generous support of the American public.
Together with a network of affiliates, Prevent Blindness is
committed to eliminating preventable blindness in America. For more
information, visit us at PreventBlindness.org, and follow us on
Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Media Contact
Sarah Hecker, Prevent Blindness,
312.363.6035, shecker@preventblindness.org,
PreventBlindness.org
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