SUNY Faculty of Optometry NOSA Chapter Takes High Honors

(PRESS RELEASE) NEW YORK, NY — The SUNY Faculty of Optometry Nationwide Optometric Scholar Affiliation (NOSA) took prime honors on the Nationwide Optometric Affiliation (NOA) Convention held in Philadelphia, PA July 11 – 14, 2024. SUNY Optometry was awarded NOSA Chapter of the Yr, and three college students had been acknowledged with NOSA Government Board Scholarships: Melinda Morvai, Taylor Greaves and Christine “Chin-Yen” Chou. Ms. Greaves was additionally elected because the NOSA Nationwide Vice-President.

“Turning into the NOSA Vice President means I’ve the chance to advocate for minority populations in optometry colleges and within the communities wherein we serve,” famous the newly elected Ms. Greaves. “Throughout my time period, I hope to extend the variety of black and brown college students in optometry by the Diversifying Optometry Initiative. This can be a joint mission between NOSA and American Optometric Scholar Affiliation (AOSA) to extend consciousness of the optometric career for highschool and school college students from underrepresented backgrounds.”

SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Pleasure Harewood, director of Range, Inclusion, Fairness and Belonging, was named NOA Optometrist of the Yr. NOA was created in 1969 when 25 African American optometrists gathered in Richmond, Virginia. The assembly was known as by Dr. C. Clayton Powell of Atlanta, Georgia and Dr. John L. Howlette of Richmond, Virginia. The aim of their gathering was to ascertain a nationally acknowledged optometric group comprised of black docs. The mission assertion of this group is, “Advancing the Visible Well being of Minority Populations,” and continues to be the most important optometric affiliation representing minority suppliers in America.

Based in 1979, the aim of NOSA is to stimulate and encourage extremely skilled, mental, and social relationships with members of optometric packages in addition to different well being care skilled pupil organizations. These members are college students of accredited colleges and faculties of optometry and function an extension of the NOA to ship high quality care and repair to the neighborhood. There are 21 lively NOSA Chapters all through the nation.

This marks the third time that the NOSA Chapter at SUNY Faculty of Optometry has been named NOSA Chapter of the Yr.