<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 57, 56); background-color: white;">On Wednesday, July 15th, 2020, Prevent Blindness will host the 9th Annual Focus on Eye Health National Summit as a free virtual event. (Due to the current COVID-19 health crisis, this year’s event will be held as an online event only.)</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 57, 56);"><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">The Focus on Eye Health National Summit has become a key annual event to elevate the national dialogue among diverse stakeholder groups around vision and significant public health issues such as equity, surveillance, access, prevention, service integration, and program development. The Summit allows its participants to develop new collaborations, integrate new vision health messages and procedures into their outreach, disseminate evidence-based best practices to support eye health, and improve lines of communication with internal and external partners. Our virtual event will offer these same opportunities through a unique, interactive platform.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white;">The Summit will include a variety of presentations related to this year’s theme, "An Eye to the Future.” The agenda will recognize the importance of the year 2020 for vision – and look beyond this moment to the technologies, treatments, social impacts, and policies that will shape vision health in America in the coming decades.</span><br class=""><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The agenda for the day includes:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: yellow;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></strong></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><u class="">Keynote Presentation</u>:</b><br class="">WHO World Report on Vision <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Peter Holland, CEO, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><u class="">Additional Presentations</u>:<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">US Population and Vision Health in 2020 and Beyond<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD, Fran & Ray Stark Foundation Professor of Ophthalmology, UCLA Stein Eye Institute<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Shefa Gordon, PhD, Associate Director for Science Policy and Legislation, National Eye Institute, NIH<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""> </b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">2020 Rising Visionary Award<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Araba Otoo, MPH, 3rd-year Optometry Student, The Ohio State University College of Optometry<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""> </b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">Future of Vision Treatment and Research<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Sayoko (Sy) E. Moroi, MD, PhD, Chair and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">L. Penny Rosenblum, PhD, Director of Research, American Foundation for the Blind<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""> </b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">2020 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Rebecca Coakley, MA, CLVT, Director of Outreach, West Virginia University Eye Institute, Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Program<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <strong class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></strong></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">For details about the event and agenda, visit</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><a href="https://bowtie.mailbutler.io/tracking/hit/196c84ad-413a-46a7-9034-41472361d9cf/8081a5ca-4168-457d-9b17-b5e26662919d" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">www.preventblindness.org/eyesummit</span></a><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(95, 97, 98);">.</span></strong><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(95, 97, 98);"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 57, 56); background-color: white;">The Focus on Eye Health National Summit welcomes a diverse range of participants, including patient advocates, community-based organizations, national vision and eye health organizations, health-care providers, senior- and child care professionals, government agency staff, legislative staff, and more.</span><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Follow the event on Twitter at #eyesummit.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Registration is free. Register today to attend the virtual event: </span></b><a href="https://bowtie.mailbutler.io/tracking/hit/196c84ad-413a-46a7-9034-41472361d9cf/8081a5ca-4168-457d-9b17-b5e26662919d" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">www.preventblindness.org/eyesummit</span></b></a><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">.</span></b></div>
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