Students,
Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board members and Friends,
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Last Sunday we hosted
the 3rd stop of the new infamous “Lombardi Farewell Tour” on campus. Celebrating Dr. Lombardi’s over 50 years of service to PCO and Salus, the
“Tour” brings together top names in optometric continuing education to provide
a world class program to alumni, staff and other optometrists who attended. This event, which brought over 130 OD’s to the Elkins Park campus, was
the largest. Lectures by Drs. Kelly Malloy, Len Messner, Carlo Pelino, and
of course, Dr. Lorraine Lombardi were the center piece of the event. Following 6 hours of absolutely fantastic continuing education (you
usually don’t see fantastic and CE in the same sentence), we hosted a reception
where Dr. Lombardi’s former students shared some funny as well as heart-felt
stories about their interactions with Lorraine and how she helped to shape
their careers. It was a wonderful event. Special thanks to our
lecturers and CE department as well as Dr. Sue Oleszewski who thought of the
idea of the tour. In addition to the CE tour, the University will also be
dedicating a classroom to Dr. Lombardi this May. Dr. O. has been leading
the way to raise funds to help cover the costs of what will become the
"Lombardi Classroom" on the third floor of the south building.
The university will be
hosting a Research Seminar later today from 12 -1pm in the University
Boardroom in the West building on the 4th floor. Seminar presenters have been Salus University faculty members and
graduate students as well as visiting lecturers from other departments,
universities, research facilities, private practices, industry, etc. Topics may be your own research, review a specific field, or a research
proposal. Presentations may be 35-45 mins followed by 10-20 minutes of
discussion. Today, Saeed Al Johni will be presenting an educational cartoon video to improve compliance with
the Amblyz glasses and Brianna Brim will be discussing Scapular Function
and its Relation to Elbow Pain. If you are on campus I would encourage you
to attend.
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Speaking
of lectures, next Friday Dr. James Lewis, an ophthalmologist who
works closely with our students and staff at The Eye Institute
and also has an office on the Elkins Park campus will be our
Grand Rounds speaker covering “Compounded Drops.” If
you haven’t heard Dr. Lewis lecture before, you’re in for a real treat -
and you’ll learn a great deal. Grand Rounds are held at The Eye
Institute from 7:30 - 8:30 and a light breakfast is generally
provided. Optometrists receive COPE approved CE credits for the lectures.
On
Wednesday we celebrated Valentine’s Day. In the spirit of that
Hallmark Holiday, our
communications staff has put together a very nice article on staff and alumni
as it relates to Valentine’s Day. Click here to check out
some of the stories that were posted.
This week we’re
celebrating the one-year anniversary of The Eye Institute’s Norristown satellite. This has been a great partnership with a
Federally Qualified Health Clinic in Norristown, the Montogomery County seat,
that provides care for many underprivileged patients.
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Last year we hosted
the first Community Expressions Art Exhibition in our
D’Arrigo Family Art Gallery in the Hafter Center representing the work of
students, faculty, administrators, staff and immediate family over the age of
18. The response was great and the reception was a wonderful opportunity
to meet other members of the Salus community. So, we’ve decided to do it
again! This year the show dates will be February 27th - April 1st. There will be an opening reception on March 5th between 5
- 7pm, so be sure to put that on your calendars. I’m looking forward to
seeing more Salus talent again!
Once again, I am
asking you to provide prayers to those who lost loved ones and were injured as
our country suffered yet another tragic mass shooting, this time at a high
school in Florida. This heinous, cowardly act took the lives of 17
innocent people. I am not ashamed to share that I am feeling extreme
sorrow but also anger at what has happened and has been happening in our
country. I suspect that many of you may be experiencing the same feelings. If so, I would highly encourage you to seek out our counseling services,
if for nothing more, just to express your feelings and emotions to a trained
professional. As health care providers, we’ll often be the ones who our
patients lean on. It’s okay for us to lean on someone as well. These types of feelings are normal following such an event and I strongly
encourage you to talk about them with others.
We take everyone’s
safety at Salus very seriously. Within the next couple of weeks we will
be providing refresher training on what would need to be done in the case of an
active shooter. While not a pleasant subject to write about, it has, very
unfortunately, become a necessary task and a sign of our times.
I hope you have a safe
and restful weekend and have the opportunity to spend some time with your
friends and family and even watch some of the Olympics.
Mike
