Welcoming Dr. Kathy Weise to the SVP Advisory Board
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kathy Weise to the SVP Advisory Board. Dr. Kathy Weise is a Professor of Optometry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry in Birmingham, AL. She is the Director of Pediatric Optometry Services and the Pediatric Residency Supervisor. She has been involved with NIH-funded, multi-center clinical trials for more than two decades studying myopia, convergence insufficiency, and strabismus and amblyopia. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group.
Dr. Weise is the daughter of Coach Larry Niemann and the niece of ICO grad, Dr. Robert Niemann. With an optometrist uncle and football coach dad, it is natural for her to gravitate toward sports vision. Dr. Weise created BlazerVision at UAB, a deliberately collaborative effort between UAB Optometry, UAB Ophthalmology, and UAB Athletics. As part of BlazerVision, each UAB NCAA, division I team on campus has an optometry faculty member as their team eye doctor, providing comprehensive and acute eye care in addition to baseline and post-concussion eye care to all athletes on campus. As the Director of BlazerVision and the UAB football team eye doctor, Dr. Weise plays an important role in research and clinical care on the UAB Sports Medicine team.
Partners
Bausch + Lomb's mission is to help people see better to live better all over the world—that’s why we started and what we still strive for today. Through unwavering focus rooted in innovation, quality and craftsmanship, we continue to pursue our lifelong vision of protecting and enhancing the gift of sight through every phase of life.
deCervo is the neurotechnology leader in sports cognitive performance training. deCervo provides neurological analysis of baseball and softball hitters through a phone app and regular coaching sessions that deliver in-game results.
Sharpeye Shootout is a virtual reality game that is focused on your eye-hand reaction skills.
Sports Vision Pros is excited to partner with MacuHealth and discuss the benefits of their products for our athletes
We see a world where everybody is an athlete — united in the joy of movement. Driven by our passion for sport and our instinct for innovation, we aim to bring inspiration to every athlete in the world and to make sport a daily habit.
Sport-specific brain training for baseball, softball, and tennis. Pitch recognition training helps you become a more dangerous hitter.
Serve recognition training will have you breaking serve more often. Used by over 30,000 pro, college, Olympic, and youth athletes.
We believe that when people see brilliantly, they live brilliantly. That’s why we aspire to lead the world in innovating life-changing vision and eye care products. We are the largest eye care device company in the world, with a long history of firsts. And while we have been around for over 70 years, we are just getting started.
The RightEye Vision System™ is the world’s first commercialized eye-tracking solution for general healthcare and wellness—It is nothing like traditional vision tests.
NeuroTracker has been developed out of more than 25 years of cutting-edge neuroscience research at the Faubert Lab of the University of Montreal.
The Edge Trainer from Vizual Edge delivers the most advanced vision training available. Backed by 30 years of research and development, the Edge Trainer's web-based program is proven to help enhance timing, balance, eye-hand coordination, positional and spatial awareness, reaction speed and more to give you an edge in your sport!
Since 1965 Smith Optics has been innovating goggles, sunglasses, lenses, and frames to enhance an athlete's experience of their sport or activity. In continuing to innovate they have created helmets that integrate their eyewear seamlessly.
Johnson & Johnson Vision brings together cutting-edge insights, science, technology and people to encourage professionals and patients to proactively preserve and enhance sight for life.
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September is Sports Eye Safety Month and SVP wants to highlight a recent video with Dr. Smithson and Prevent Blindness' CEO, Jeff Todd.
Learn the crucial techniques to identify hidden issues and ensure early intervention. Knowledge is power when it comes to brain heal. Check out this important video message from Dr.Keith Smithson
Dr. Smithson discusses Telehealth resources available to sports vision professionals with NeuroTracker.
He graduated from Pacific University, College of Optometry in 1994. Dr. Tad Buckingham has experience in fire and emergency services that allowed him to impact emergent eye care, and ocular injections, and to develop guidelines to manage medical emergencies in the primary care office.
Recently, we had an amazing conversation with Ernest Eugene from Orlando Magic and Eric Waters from Utah Jazz.
We talked about vision's influence on basketball players' performance, and how athletic trainers can implement sports vision techniques into athletes' training programs.
Dry eyes can influence your vision and cause problems during training or game, therefore it’s important to fix the issue.
There are many types of tints used in various types of glasses, and their function is not only to turn you into the number one fashionista (however, this function is also a good enough reason to buy a new pair of tint glasses into your collection😎).