Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
Greetings from a very chilly Chicago where John Gaal and I are attending the annual meeting of the American College of Healthcare Executives. This year’s meeting had what I consider the perfect theme, "Innovation." Almost every seminar I attended addressed some type of innovative process that improved the delivery of healthcare to include leveraging technology, distance learning and telemedicine, improving online presence and how to best gain market share using social media as a tool. Clearly, we are on the right path at Salus. These are all topics we discussed in detail during our Scenario Planning and are currently moving forward in several areas. For instance, we’re about to commence a major renovation of our Chestnut Hill satellite clinic that will include the addition of the latest auto-refraction and optometric telemedicine technology – making us the only optometry program in the country with such a clinic. Preparing our students to practice in both today’s and more importantly, tomorrow’s dynamic healthcare delivery environment is our top priority and these types of investments will help us to realize these goals.
Closer to home, Victor Bray, PhD, associate professor in the Osborne College of Audiology (OCA), Jonette Owen, AuD, assistant dean of the OCA, Robert Serianni, MS, CCC-SLP, clinical director of the Speech-Language Institute were at Capitol Hill Thursday representing Pennsylvania for the National Academies of Practice (NAP), ahead of the NAP Annual Meeting, to advocate for affordable healthcare and interprofessional practice. During the NAP meeting, Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, FNAP, Diplomate and director of Salus Externship Programs for Optometry will receive the prestigious Cummings Award for his service to NAP as well as interprofessional education. Congratulations!While I wasn't able to attend, I know today’s Grand Rounds included an exceptional presentations on "Thrombocytopenia: The Lowdown on Platelets" from Dr. Shruti Desai and "How Low Can You Go?: Ocular Manifestations of Blood Dyscrasias", presented by Dr. Ryan Kern.
March is Save Your Vision Month, which traces its founding to 1927 by members of the American Optometric Association. Initially, the celebration was reserved for only a week. President Lyndon B. Johnson raised its profile in 1963 by making it a national observance, thanks, I’m almost certain to the exposure President Johnson had to extraordinary optometric care his family received from Dr. Robert Kraskin, one of our distinguished alumni. Then, in 2005, the AOA House of Delegates voted to extend the campaign to a month. During March, we take time to remind Americans of the importance of eye health and comprehensive eye examinations, performed by doctors of optometry.
Just over a month to go until the Centennial Gala! Read some of these great stories as we continue to celebrate the centennial anniversary of PCO: salus.edu/robert-morrison and salus.edu/healthcare-move. If you haven’t already purchased tickets to the gala, you can do so by clicking here!
As we get ready to spring the clocks forward one hour this Saturday evening, I encourage all of you to try to get a little extra rest as we all lose that one hour of sleep! Have a great weekend. I look forward to returning back to campus Monday morning, as I hope many of you do as well!
Mike
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