Students, Faculty, Residents (current and new), Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
Greetings from a steamy Elkins Park Campus. It’s been another busy week at Salus with summer mid-term exams wrapping up.
Last evening we bid farewell to our current optometric residents and welcomed our new ones at the annual Caio Chow event hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Bennett, which, despite the rain, was another fantastic event. Thank you Dr. and Mrs. Bennett for maintaining such as great tradition that celebrates the accomplishments of our extremely talented optometric residents!
Some events I might have missed while away last month: College of Education and Rehabilitation (CER) completed its first interprofessional direct service experience involving students and preceptors from all three departments! After a pilot program by Blind and Low Vision Studies (BLVS) in 2018, the Occupational Therapy and Speech, Language Pathology departments joined in this year to conduct a one-week summer camp for children with visual impairments at partnering St. Lucy's School for the Blind, in Philadelphia. This interprofessional effort required students from all CER fields of practice to come together to plan, implement, and evaluate the summer camp, learning from and supporting each other while experiencing the true benefits of interprofessional practice. The camp was attended by 19 children with visual impairments, ranging in grades from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Leading the learning experience were Emily Vasile, from BLVS, who brought everyone together and created a supported environment for students and preceptors, and Sister Lisa Lettiere (former Alumni Award recipient), principal of St. Lucy's School for the Blind, who shared the school and its wonderful students with Salus.
Thanks to Dr. Carlo Pelino for his Grand Rounds presentation, “Longevity Through the Eyes of the Beholder”. As always, Carlo’s lecture was thought-provoking and extremely interesting but also a bit discouraging, as I think we were all hoping he’d bring a huge bottle of water from that Fountain of Youth, which of course, he didn’t! Guess it’s back to good diet, exercise, minimizing stress, getting enough sleep and having the luck to have inherited good genes!
An alumni reception will be held this evening at The National Optometric Association’s annual meeting from 8-10 p.m. at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, please drop in!
Many of you might have seen the recent recall of Lubricant Eye Drops that were being marketed at Walmart and Walgreens. The Eye Institute has provided information about this to current patients and we have all the pertinent information on our website which you can view here.
Summer usually brings about changes in personnel, and this year is no different. We want to congratulate Drs. Richard Brilliant and Tony DiStefano, on their retirements. Combined their service to PCO and now Salus totals over 80 years! You can read about Dr. Brilliant’s stellar career at http://salus.edu/
Our Audiology Summer Workshops are starting next week with two sessions scheduled, July 20-23 and July 25-28: more info is available here.
Finally, I want to congratulate Mr. Alan Lindy, the CEO of Lindy Properties, who has been selected to receive the Lighthouse Award which will be presented at this year’s Looking Out For Kids gala in November. Those nominated for this prestigious award are beacons of light and sources of strength in the community in which they live, work, and serve above and beyond their occupations. Mr. Lindy certainly personifies this through his commitment to the youth of the greater Philadelphia region and his overall generosity and philanthropy to our Looking Out For Kids charity as well as many others, over his career.
Have a great weekend! Be safe, use lots of sunscreen, drink lots of water and take care of one another. See many of you on Monday!
Mike
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