EVENTS & WEBINARS
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WEBINAR SERIES:
Covid Care Webinar Series
Dr. Pooja Desai is MHA, DOMS, MBBS.
Vision-Aid has launched a Covid-Care Webinar Series, a live session where eminent people from the field of medicine, healthcare, life sciences and other areas will share important information about Covid and how citizens need to respond to it.
Dr. Pooja Desai is MHA, DOMS, MBBS.
The speaker for the session was Dr. Pooja Desai, an eminent Ophthalmologist working in the USA. She is a public health graduate currently working as an analyst for a healthcare organization in the United States offering expertise in the economic recovery post Covid Pandemic. She completed her medical degree
back in 2012 following which she worked as a consultant ophthalmologist in various municipal hospitals in Mumbai for 6 years. During her tenure as a physician, she have performed numerous cataract surgeries and offered medical expertise to treat various vision issues
May 23rd between 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM IST (11 AM – 12 Noon EDT).
Please adjust for your own time zone!
Other Webinars
Dr. Sam Taraporvala
Best Practices in Awareness and Advocacy Programs for the Visually Impaired
Kirby Lindgren
Best Practices in Online Education for the Visually Impaired
Dr. Loubaina Buxamusa
Best Practices in Vision Rehabilitation - An Occupational Therapy Perspective
Kristen Layton
Identification and Intervention - The Key to Reaching and Teaching Children with MDVI
Dr. Kathryn Miller
Basic Assessment and Management of Pediatric Low Vision Patients
David Kingsbury
Best Practices in Assistive Technology Training Instruction for Blind and Visually Impaired Adults
Prof. John Ravenscroft
Identifying and supporting economic needs of families with visually impaired children, including children with cerebral visual impairment
Pallavi Deshpande
Life Skills Training For The Visually Impaired & Disability Rights
Dr. G N Rao
Best practices in Operating a Tertiary Low Vision Center: Synopsis
Ram Raju
Best Practices in Enabling, Educating and Empowering the Vision Impaired – The Vision-Aid Model
Dr. Linda Lawrence
The importance of Vision: Visual development and Low Vision in infants and small children
Neha Sharma
Best Practices in Communicating with individuals with MDVI
Neha Sharma
The Role of Orientation and Mobility in the World of the Visually Impaired
Dr. Barry Kran
Overview of CVI: Definition and considerations around assessment and habilitation
Dr. Alexis "Lexi" Malkin
Overcoming Barriers to Low Vision Care
Dr. Bhavani Iyer
Advances in Low Vision Technology