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Alicia Hoglund

PEOPLE
Vision Source recently announced the promotion of Bret Davis to vice president of business development. Prior to joining Vision Source in 2008, Davis was the president of Briot USA. i-Optics has appointed Stephen Morris to vice president, North America. Morris brings 21 years of industry leadership experience to the position.	Bret Davis, Vision Source
Bob Sypniewski has been named vice president/general manager of Opticote, Inc. In his new role, Sypniewski will be responsible for overseeing Opticote’s daily operations and charting the general direction of the company. Christopher Allen Michaels is the new vice president of strategic development and technology licensing of Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. (RPS). He brings more than 20 years of intellectual property law experience to his new post.	Bob Sypniewski, Opticote, Inc.

AWARDS

Alex V. Levin, MD, MHSc, chief of pediatric ophthalmology and ocular genetics of Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, is the recipient of Prevent Blindness America’s 2012 Investigator Award. Levin will receive a research grant for his study, “Cost and Effectiveness of an Eye Care Adherence Program for Philadelphia School Children with Significant Visual Impairment.”

Silhouette has announced the winners of the Talenthouse design contest—Alexandra Muner of Brazil, James Thomas Fields of the U.S., and Tamir Baasanjav of Mongolia. Each winning design will be featured as a limited-edition frame in the adidas Originals collection.

GOOD DEEDS

Last month at the Glam-A-Thon Lipstick Lounge event, 200 of J.F. Rey Eyewear’s limited-edition Breast Cancer Awareness Eyewear frames were up for sale, with 100 percent of the proceeds going toward breast cancer research.

J.F. Rey’s limited-edition Breast Cancer Awareness Eyewear frame

Frank Campis and Richard Sellinger, Vision-Ease Lens vice president and CFO, at Campis’ retirement party

VSP Vision Care recently hit a significant milestone, providing free eyecare and eyewear to more than 775,000 adults and children in the U.S. via VSP’s charity care programs such as Sight for Students and VSP Mobile Eyes.

BUSINESS UPDATES

Vision-Ease Lens recently held a to retirement party celebrate 12-year VEL employee, Frank Campis.

The American Optometric Association and the Opticians Association of America have launched Present, the final of three free COPE-accredited CE in support of the SUN Initiative for optometrists on EyeLearn.

INFO: aoa.org/eyelearn, oaa.org

Knowledge Center

As part of the Back to Basics series, the October issue of EB featured crossword puzzle as an accompaniment to “Part 1: Understanding Prism” by Jenean Carlton, ABOC, NCLC. Here, we provide the clues and answers to the puzzle.

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4 Double vision.

8 The process of the ciliary muscles to change the shape and power of the crystalline lens.

10 A prism has the ability to __________ the direction of light passing through.

12 The human eye has six ____________ muscles.

13 For good vision, light needs to enter the eye and come to a focus on the ________________.

14 Optical lenses are a combination of _____________.

15 Extraocular muscles are ________ by cranial nerves in the brain.

16 Natural lens inside the eye. (Two words)

19 The goal for treating strabismus is to establish __________________. (Two words)

22 Light is deviated by a prism toward its _____________.

23 Objects viewed through a prism are __________________ to be in a different location.

25 Patients with this refractive error are “far-sighted.”

28 Minus powered lenses are _____________.

30 The thickest part of a prism.

31 Concave lenses____________ light.

32 Photoreceptive cells responsible for movement and night vision.

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1 The vascular structure at the back of the eye.

2 The area of a lens where no refraction takes place. (Two words)

3 The ability of our eyes to take two images and fuse them into one. (Two words)

5 A prism has no _____________ power.

6 The central most area of the macula. (Two words)

7 The thinnest part of a prism.

9 Convex lenses ____________ light.

11 The rotation of the eye toward the nose.

14 The inability of the eye to focus sharply on near objects due to the loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens.

17 The rotation of the eye toward the temple.

18 Press-on prism.

20 Objects viewed through a prism appear to be displaced toward its __________.

21 The failure of both eyes to simultaneously direct their gaze at the same object in space due to an imbalance of the extraocular muscles.

24 Prism power is measured in _____________.

26 Patients with this refractive error are “near-sighted.”

27 Plus-powered lenses are ____________.

29 Photoreceptive cells responsible for color vision.