Jim McGrann, CEO of PECAA, Officially Appointed Chair of the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors, While Susan A. Primo, OD, MPH, FAAO, Emory Eye Center, and Emory University School of Medicine, and Susan L. Stone, MBA, SLStone Consulting, LLC, Join the Board arsenic New Members
, /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prevent Blindness, the nation's starring unpaid oculus wellness and information nonprofit organization, has announced that Jim McGrann, CEO of Professional Eyecare Associates of America (PECAA), has been appointed Chair of the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors. PECAA was precocious acquired by VSP Vision. Susan A. Primo, OD, MPH, FAAO, Director, Optometry and Vision Rehabilitation Services, Emory Eye Center, and Professor of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Susan L. Stone, Founder of SLStone Consulting, LLC, person been elected arsenic members of Prevent Blindness Board of Directors. The ballot was held connected Nov. 4, astatine the 2022 Prevent Blindness Annual Board Meeting successful Chicago.
Stephanie Marioneaux, MD, cornea and outer illness specialist, was elected arsenic Board Secretary, and Cadmus Rich, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Research and Development astatine Aura Biosciences, was re-elected arsenic Board Treasurer. Marcus Molea, long-time Prevent Blindness, Ohio Affiliate volunteer, retired from the Ohio Department of Aging, was named the Chief Volunteer Officer liaison to the Board.
Jim McGrann was named the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors Chair-elect successful 2021 and takes implicit duties from Board of Directors Chair, Dr. M. Kathleen Murphy, Associate Dean, Inclusivity, Global Health & Community Engagement, University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing, astatine the completion of her term.
Mr. McGrann has decades of enforcement acquisition successful the imaginativeness and optical industry. At PECAA, McGrann manages concern strategy development, lawsuit acquisition management, and accusation exertion strategy development. He was antecedently the President & CEO of VSP Global, the erstwhile President of VSP Vision, and CIO of Marchon Eyewear. He has a Bachelor of Science successful concern engineering from Columbia University.
McGrann has served connected assorted Prevent Blindness lawsuit committees implicit the years, including co-chairing the 2021 Person of Vision Award committee, honoring Marc Ferrara of Jobson Medical Information.
In summation to her nationalist wellness work, Dr. Susan Primo specializes successful imaginativeness rehabilitation to assistance patients who go visually impaired done the valuation and medicine of debased imaginativeness devices. Her probe interests are successful strategical nationalist wellness approaches to code ocular impairment and nonaccomplishment (especially owed to glaucoma) and to trim radical disparities successful imaginativeness healthcare. She is simply a known adept successful debased vision/vision rehabilitation probe arsenic good arsenic ocular wellness disparities.
Dr. Primo is progressive successful aggregate planetary ophthalmology projects including Georgia Vision 2020 and Standing Voice work visits to Tanzania. Additionally, she is simply a subordinate of National Eye Health and Education Planning Group from the National Eye Institute, and she is the Co-chair of the Center for Vision and Population Health astatine Prevent Blindness Advisory Committee. She besides serves connected the Prevent Blindness Vision Health Equity Committee, and connected the Advisory Council to the Living Well with Low Vision Resource. She has besides served connected the Prevent Blindness Scientific Committee and arsenic a unpaid for Prevent Blindness Georgia.
At SLStone Consulting, Susan Stone creates connections betwixt for-profit clients and patient, supplier and policymaker coalitions and nonprofit organizations, that amplify each stakeholder voices to guarantee diligent entree to due healthcare treatments and services. She develops communications strategies and campaigns that power activations crossed a diverseness of consenting and capable advocates. Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Stone has decades of acquisition successful the imaginativeness wellness and biopharmaceutical industries, including Associate Vice President, Global Alliance Advocacy & Patient Affairs astatine Allergan, plc, (now AbbVie), and arsenic a Board Member for The Allergan Foundation, and Trustee for the Allergan International Foundation. Prior to Allergan, she held galore enactment roles astatine Johnson & Johnson crossed their Medical Device, Biopharma, and Consumer sectors. Ms. Stone has a Bachelor of Science successful Marketing from San Jose State University, and Master of Business Administration successful Management from Golden Gate University.
In summation to joining the Board of Directors, Susan Stone, presently a subordinate of the Prevent Blindness Development Committee, volition present service arsenic the committee's Chair. She is besides a committee subordinate of the National Headache Foundation and a consulting advisor for the Aimed Alliance.
"I'm looking guardant to moving intimately with Jim McGrann successful his caller enactment relation astatine Prevent Blindness," said Jeff Todd, president and CEO. "And I convey Dr. Susan Primo, Susan Stone, and Marc Molea for their years of dedicated committedness to Prevent Blindness, and enthusiastically invited them to our Board."
For a afloat listing of members of the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors, delight sojourn https://www.preventblindness.org/prevent-blindness-board-directors. For much accusation astir Prevent Blindness oregon wide oculus wellness information, sojourn preventblindness.org.
About Prevent Blindness
Founded successful 1908, Prevent Blindness is the nation's starring unpaid oculus wellness and information enactment dedicated to warring blindness and redeeming sight. Focused connected promoting a continuum of imaginativeness care, Prevent Blindness touches the lives of millions of radical each twelvemonth done nationalist and nonrecreational education, advocacy, certified imaginativeness screening and training, assemblage and diligent work programs and research. These services are made imaginable done the generous enactment of the American public. Together with a web of affiliates, Prevent Blindness is committed to eliminating preventable blindness successful America. For much information, sojourn america astatine preventblindness.org, and travel america connected Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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