SURG - From Screening to Sight: A Statewide School Vision Screening Model for Arizona - James O'Neil, MD

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Introduction to new statewide data infrastructure to link school health screenings to parents and physicians.
• Invitation for innovation: How Phoenix Children's physicians can utilize new state infrastructure for public health outreach and systems change.

About this presenter:

James O'Neil, MD
Pediatric Ophthalmologist 
Phoenix Children's

Dr. O'Neil is a Board certified pediatric ophthalmologist. He treats a broad spectrum of pediatric ophthalmology disorders with a caseload of more than 10,000 surgeries in nearly 30 years of practice. Clinical milestones include being an early adopter of telemedicine and the second ophthalmologist in the United States to perform remote retinopathy of prematurity screenings to prevent blindness in premature infants. Dr. O'Neil has clinical publications in scientific medical journals and has developed patented vision assessment applications currently in use throughout the world. In 2003, Dr. O'Neil co-founded VisionQuest 20/20 [a 501c(3) non-profit] which has facilitated vision screenings of over 2,000,000 schoolchildren using computerized vision screening software Dr. O'Neil designed. Other volunteer activities include serving on the national A.A.P.O.S. vision screening community and Eyes on Learning medical advisory board.