A recent R01 award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) enables a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of researchers, low vision specialists, engineers, and computer scientists from the University of Wisconsin—Madison …
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Department Hosts Inaugural Low Vision Rehabilitation Meeting
In an effort to improve patient care through collaboration, the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) hosted its first-ever Greater Dane County Low Vision Rehabilitation Stakeholder meeting on October 14. The …
Chief of Vision Rehabilitation Services Shares Research Updates
February is Low Vision Awareness Month. Low vision is defined as any type of vision impairment affecting and individual’s activities of daily living that cannot be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, procedures or surgery. While …
Sanbrita Mondal, OD, Awarded the McPherson Eye Research Institute 2021 Expanding Our Vision Award
Sanbrita Mondal, OD, clinical optometrist, clinical adjunct assistant professor and director of the UW Health Low Vision Clinic, is part of a team of researchers who have been awarded the McPherson Eye Research Institute 2021 …
Sanbrita Mondal, OD, Discusses the Low Vision Exam with WCBVI
Sanbrita Mondal, OD, is a clinical optometrist and director of the low vision clinic at UW Health. Under Dr. Mondal’s leadership, the low vision clinic has relocated into recently renovated and more expansive space on …
The Latest on Low Vision Service at UW Health
A year after Sanbrita Mondal, OD, started the Low Vision Rehabilitation Clinic at UW Health University Station Eye Clinic in Madison, it is now fully operational, holding diagnostic clinics for patients with visual disabilities every …
February: Low Vision Awareness Month
The National Eye Institute (NEI) recognizes the month of February to raise awareness about vision rehabilitation among people with low vision and their family, friends, and caregivers. According to the NEI, approximately 2.9 million Americans …