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He previously served as executive director of the NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city’s emergency response to COVID-19, which distributed and administered more than 150 million COVID-19 tests and over 2.2 million vaccines. Dr. Long is a practicing primary care physician at Gotham Health/Morrisania, in the Bronx.

Dr. Pizzarello has worked in over 40 countries bringing eye care to underserved people and initiated a project to provide inner city children with glasses in the US. He was founding chair of Vision 2020 USA and currently holds the title of Professor of Ophthalmology at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has received awards from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Helen Keller International, Southampton College and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of the Lavelle Fund for the Blind.

Lisa A. Ostrin, OD, PhD, FAAO, FARVO

is Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and Professor in the Department of Biological and Vision Sciences at the SUNY College of Optometry. She received an OD/PhD degree from the University of Houston, followed by postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University and

Damaris Raymondi, OD, FAAO is an award-winning optometrist,

practice owner, and educator based in New York City. She specializes in pediatric eye care, ocular disease, and myopia

management, and is passionate about advancing equitable eye care through patient education. Dr. Raymondi is the host of the Eyes Up podcast, highlighting diverse voices in optometry, and is a frequent national lecturer and media contributor.

the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to the University of Houston to establish an independent research program focused on the mechanisms of ocular growth and myopia development, conducting translational studies in both human participants and animal models, and has since transitioned this work to SUNY College of Optometry. Dr. Ostrin teaches gross and ocular anatomy and is the author of Anatomy of the Human Eye: A Coloring Atlas . Dr. Ostrin is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Optometry and a Gold Fellow of ARVO. She is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science . Her honors include the American Optometric Foundation Ezell Fellowship and the Women in Optometry Theia Education Award.

David Rhew, MD is Microsoft’s Global CMO, and has

led efforts around COVID-19 (working with WHO, CDC, and U.S. States), responsible AI (as co-founder of the Trustworthy Responsible AI Network [TRAIN], and rural health (as co-founder of the Rural Health Transformation Collaborative). He has pioneered the development of evidence-based order sets in EHRs while at Zynx Health and home-based cardiac rehab while at Samsung. He holds six U.S. technology patents that enable authoring, mapping, and integration of CDS into electronic health records. Dr. Rhew has sat on NQF’s Executive CSAC Board; is Chair-emeritus for Consumer Technology Association’s Health Technology Board; and serves on the Executive Advisory Board for AdvaMed Digital Health and NESTcc (advisory to FDA, CMS and NIH regarding RWE/RWD safety and efficiency studies on medical devices). He is Adjunct Professor at Stanford and has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential by Modern Healthcare.

Louis D. Pizzarello, MD, MPH practiced ophthalmology on the

East End of Long Island for over forty years. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Colgate University, a medical degree at the University of Virginia and a degree in public health from Harvard University. Continuing his medical training, he completed

an internship at the Toronto General Hospital and a residency in ophthalmology at the E.S. Harkness Eye Institute at Columbia University. At that point he returned to Southampton to practice.

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