UAB professor receives award for impact on infants's eye care.
Written with the aid of: Maegan RoyalMedia contact: Savannah Koplon
Kathy Weise, O.D., MBA, FAAOKathy Weise, O.D., MBA, FAAO, professor on the tuition of Alabama at Birmingham's college of Optometry and director of UAB Eye Care Pediatric Optometry capabilities, has been awarded the sixth Annual hall W. Thompson Hero for Sight Award from Sight Savers the united states.
The corridor W. Thompson Hero for Sight Award is given yearly to someone or organization that has made a profound have an effect on on infants's eye care.
Sight Savers, a nonprofit firm based in Pelham, Alabama, offers programs that deliver little ones with incredible eyecare together with eye examinations, eyeglasses, area of expertise glasses, imaginative and prescient therapy, low-imaginative and prescient evaluations, digital video magnifiers, optical imaginative and prescient aids, different remedies, and referrals for surgery and different ophthalmological functions. The services are provided — at no cost to infants from low-income households. UAB has had a partnership with Sight Savers for greater than twenty years.
"This honor represents a true group effort via UAB Eye Care, college students, college and administration," Weise mentioned. "a child who receives an eye fixed exam at UAB Eye Care through Sight Savers the united states helps us and our college students go on to assist exponentially more infants. There's nothing greater pleasant than seeing a child mild up when he discovers greater imaginative and prescient for the first time and knowing that we have more desirable the exceptional of existence for a child."
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