Podcast #31
May 2009
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Neuro-Optometry
and Traumatic Brain Injury
- NEW FOR MAY
Host: Gerry Brooks, MA, CCC, CBIST
Guest: Neera Kapoor, O.D., M.S., FAAO, B.Sc, Associate
Clinical Professor and Director of the Raymond J. Greenwald
Rehabilitation Center, SUNY- Optometry, New York.
Time: 28:56
Synopsis: Vision is one of our most important
senses and it is vulnerable to impairment after a traumatic
brain injury. In this program our Guest Dr. Neera
Kapoor who gives an overview of Neuro-Optometry and
discusses why if differs from Ophthalmology and Optometry
and the role Neuro-Optometric
rehabilitation provides in assessing and treating vision
problems after a traumatic brain injury. Dr. Kapoor
also gives listeners useful criteria for finding a Neuro-Optometrist,
how is an examination done and the most common treatments.
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Neera Kapoor,
O.D., M.S., FAAO, B.Sc
About the Guest: Dr. Neera Kapoor is an Associate Clinical
Professor of Optometry and the Director of the Raymond J.
Greenwald Rehabilitation Center at SUNY - the State
University of New York-Optometry in New York City. Since
September 1996, she has been the Director of SUNY-Optometry’s
vision rehabilitation unit. Over the past 13 years of
working with individuals with acquired brain injury, Dr.
Kapoor has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles,
textbook chapters, and poster presentations, as well as
having lectured locally and regionally on the topic of
vision and ABI.
Profile
of Dr. Kapoor at SUNY State College of Optometry
Resources cited by Dr. Kapoor in the Podcast:
Neuro-Optometric
Rehabilitation Association
College of Optometrists in
Vision Development (COVD)
For More Information:
Neuro-Optometry
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