Volume 28 March 2024
The Eye & Ear Foundation Digital Newsletter Happy Mad for Plaid Month (yep, it's a thing)!
In Memoriam: Bruce Gebhardt Eye & Ear Foundation Board Member Bruce Gebhardt passed away suddenly on September 17, 2023. “Bruce will be greatly missed by his Eye & Ear Foundation family,” said EEF CEO Lawton Snyder. “We got to know Bruce because of his amazing spirit and dedication to addressing the problems with untreated vision and hearing loss in the community.” Read More
Armstrong County Gets Vision Support Rich Snyder’s mom Louella had macular degeneration and glaucoma that were debilitating. He recently started taking eye drops for glaucoma himself.
Expansion of Telemedicine & Remote UPMC Audiology Services
Grant Awarded for Mobile Ophthalmic Imaging Program
Dr. Evan (Jake) L. Waxman, MD, PhD, Director of UPMC Eye Center Mercy and While audiologists are Comprehensive Eye Service, licensed healthcare providers qualified to provide and a professor in the diagnostic and rehabilitative Department of Ophthalmology at the hearing and balance “I have taken on the services, there is currently a University of Pittsburgh, has responsibility to begin to won a $100,000 grant from shortage of audiologists in help others by working with the Pennsylvania Medical our country, forcing many the Eye & Ear Foundation to Society (PAMED) for the clinics to consider alternate get more help in other areas implementation of a mobile options to expand their