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NEW YORK—Leading experts from innovative medical, retail and eyecare companies described how new healthcare business models are delivering convenience, greater access and more affordable and personalized medicine during a wide-ranging program at the latest session of the Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit. The speakers offered diverse points of view on the program’s theme, “Who Are the New Gatekeepers? What’s Vision’s Role?” Collectively, they exemplified a new approach to vision care that is wider in scope, more accessible and more fully integrated into the broader healthcare matrix.
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Bausch Health and BHVI enter licensing agreement, Marc Ferrara of Jobson Medical Information to receive 2021 Person of Vision Award, Leonard Green & Partners invests in Eyemart Express, Marchon Eyewear partners with Eastman, and Opti 2021 show to return to Munich in January all topped this week’s VMAIL news feed. Click on the headlines below to catch up on anything you might have missed.
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NEW YORK—Six women were named recipients of the 2020 Theia Awards of Excellence last night, Thursday Oct. 15. The award ceremony was held virtually as the conclusion to the three-day Women’s Leadership Conference hosted by Women In Optometry with the American Academy of Optometry Academy at Homeprogram. The awards were presented with a special collaboration of past winners returning to honor the new recipients as they accepted their awards in this fifth annual award ceremony.
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Did you follow the optical news this week? Take VM’s News Quiz to see how much you know. This week's quiz takes a look at Mido's Plans for 2021, a new "hire" at The Eyeglass Lass and healthcare cancellations due to COVID. Click here to take the quiz for the week of October 11th. VM's News Quiz is published every Saturday as part of VMAIL Weekend.
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Don’t get enough of looking at your Snellen Chart during work hours? Why not bring it home, in a much chicer way? You can pick this up on Etsy here.
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NEW YORK—Memories of a "larger than life" personality, an industry leader, mentor and friend to so many poured in earlier this week about the late Henry Shyer, vice-chairman of Zyloware, who passed away last weekend on Oct. 10, as VMAIL reported. Services were held by the Shyer family (and live streamed via Zoom and Facebook) for Shyer, who was recognized by suppliers, laboratory executives, his company team and associates, retailers and distributors for his contributions to the modern eyewear industry and his funny and fierce sense of humor and friendship.
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