For more than 30 years, my passion has been to use the power of research and data to improve patient outcomes and expand programs that help to address the various vision issues that impact all of us. I thank Prevent Blindness for this acknowledgment and will continue to work to advance these important issues.

Cynthia Owsley, PhD, the Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology and director of the Clinical Research Unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Owsley is the recipient of the 2019 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health,  which will be presented by Prevent Blindness today at the organization’s Focus on Eye Health Summit in Washington, D.C. Owsley’s comments were reported by UAB on its website.