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Team

Chairman: Paul Berman, OD, FAAO
  • Former Chairman, AOA Sports Vision Program.
  • Founder and Senior Global Clinical Director of Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Program.
  • 2004 International Optometrist of the Year.
  • 2000 Sports Vision Optometrist of the Year.
  • 1998 New Jersey Optometrist of the Year.
Advisory Board
Stuart Dankner, MD: Dr. Dankner is the Chairman of the Eye Safety Committee of the Maryland Society for Sight. He sits on the Board of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, is a clinical professor at the University of Maryland Hospital and an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Phil Irion, OD: Dr. Irion has served as Chairman of the US Olympics Visual Performance and Safety Committee, the AOA Sports Vision Program and the Board of Examiners for Optometry and as President of the Michigan Optometric Association. He has been voted Sports Optometrist of the Year (AOA, 1996) as well as Optometrist of the Year (Michigan Optometric Association, 2004)
Richard Palumbo, ABOM: An ophthalmic instructor since 1985, Mr. Palumbo is the Director of Ophthalmic Dispensing at Essex County College, sits on the Faculty Association as a Faculty Senator, serves as Curriculum Committee Chair, and has co-authored both Essex County College's Self-Study program, and its Associate of Science Degree program for Health Science. A practicing dispensing optician for twenty years, Mr. Palumbo became an ABO Master Optician in 2003, is a member of Who's Who Among American Teachers and holds the Optician's Association of America's Refractometry Certification Certificate.
Katheryn Schramm, FNAO: Ms. Schramm, author of Dispensing Pediatric Eyewear, is the President and CEO of A Child's View, Inc. She is a national spokesperson and trainer for the VCA and sits on the advisory board of Eye Care Business Magazine.
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