Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Affiliation Pronounces Appointments of New Government And Advisory Board Officers

(PRESS RELEASE) Boynton Seaside, FL -The Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Affiliation, Worldwide (NORA) broadcasts the appointments of its new Government and Advisory Board members.Government Board

Charles Shidlofsky, OD, FCOVD assumes the place of President, succeeding DeAnn Fitzgerald, OD, who now joins the NORA Advisory Board.  Dr. Shidlofsky is Medical Director of Neuro-Imaginative and prescient Associates of North Texas, a specialty clinic serving kids and adults with neurological imaginative and prescient points. He’s a member of the medical workers at Baylor Scott and White Institute for Rehabilitation-Frisco, Dallas, and Ft. Value. Dr. Shidlofsky additionally serves as a marketing consultant for a number of Texas-based rehabilitation facilities, together with the Centre for Neuro Abilities and Pate Rehabilitation. He’s residency director for a personal observe residency in imaginative and prescient rehabilitation by Southern School of Optometry.

Melissa Zarn Urankar, OD, FAAO is appointed Vice President. Dr. Zarn Urankar is an Assistant Professor of Optometry at Southern School of Optometry (SCO). Dr. Zarn evaluates and manages sufferers with traumatic and bought mind accidents (TBI/ABI) on the SCO clinics in addition to at native rehabilitation hospitals. She is the school advisor for SCO’s Pupil NORA Chapter; the lead teacher for the Interprofessional Training sequence and is engaged in curriculum growth to boost IPE and collaborative observe alternatives for college students at SCO.

Shirley Blanc, OD, FNORA is appointed Secretary/Treasurer.  Dr. Blanc dedicates most of her observe to assessing and treating sufferers with visible issues as a result of acquired and traumatic mind harm.  She has carried out many talking engagements on the subject of imaginative and prescient and concussion for organizations together with Mind Harm Canada, Sports activities Physiotherapists of Canada, the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and the College of Toronto.  Dr. Blanc was a co-investigator with the College of Toronto David L. Macintosh Sports activities Drugs Clinic, numerous visible manifestations of sport associated concussion.  She supplies imaginative and prescient rehabilitation in addition to sports activities imaginative and prescient efficiency companies for athletes in any respect ranges, together with varsity, Olympic, {and professional}.

Along with Dr. Fitzgerald, Drs. Kathryn Collins and Cheryl Lethern are new members of the NORA Advisory Board, becoming a member of returning member Gina Kim, MOT, OTR/L, CBIS.

Kathryn Collins, OD is in non-public observe in Lititz, PA. The observe affords complete examinations for adults and kids, contact lenses, therapy of ocular illness, and dry eyes. In 2013 Dr. Collins educated on the Visible Institute of Drugs with Dr. Debby Feinburg in Michigan to turn out to be a neurovision rehabilitation specialist. At the moment, she opened Neurovision Rehabilitation Heart of PA adjoining to her major care workplace. She has a particular curiosity in treating sufferers with concussions, dizziness, vestibular points, and migraines. Dr. Collins works with a number of multidisciplinary concussion facilities in Lancaster County and the larger Philadelphia space.

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Cheryl Letheren, B.SC., OD, FAAO has greater than 20 years of expertise with visible rehabilitation.  Dr. Letheren helped to kind the primary multi-disciplinary workforce to evaluate and deal with mind harm sufferers in a hospital setting in Canada and has been on workers at Parkwood Hospital, a rehabilitation facility, for the final 18 years, seeing acute in-patient and out-patient mind harm, complicated care, and stroke sufferers. She additionally acts as a marketing consultant for grownup concussion sufferers. In her non-public workplace, Dr. Letheren does consults for sufferers with power circumstances, motorcar accidents, head accidents, developmental circumstances, studying disabilities and concussions in grownup and kids. Collectively, together with her extremely certified imaginative and prescient therapist, who’s an internationally educated Optometrist herself, Dr. Letheren supplies evaluation and therapy for binocular imaginative and prescient issues, strabismus, amblyopia, studying difficulties, autism, and sports activities imaginative and prescient, in addition to concussions and head harm.