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WNY Vision Walk
May 14, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Dear UB Student Organization Members– This year, as in the past 4 years, the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is holding its annual VISIONWALK, to raise money for eye research aimed at finding cures, treatments, and preventions for blinding eye diseases.
The reason I’m contacting you today is that WE NEED STUDENT VOLUNTEERS to walk in the VisionWalk event and also to help out at the walk sight. PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT.
This is a great opportunity for students to perform local community service, and for a very good cause. Last year, we were fortunate to have several UB students participate.
The VisionWalk event will take place on SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016, starting at 9:00am, at CANALSIDE- Great Lawn (see flyer, attached)
I you would like to affiliate with a team, I’d welcome you to join me and my faculty colleagues from the Department of Ophthalmology.
Our team is called the “Ross Eye Institute Illuminators”
You can sign up as a walker, and/or donate to the cause, online via the URL above. ANY amount would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your consideration of this request. I hope to see you at the VisionWalk in May!
Sincerely,
Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, FARVO
UB Distinguished Professor
Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice-Chairman and Director of Research- Department of Ophthalmology
and Ira G. Ross Eye Institute Vision Research Center
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Neuroscience Program
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Member, Executive Committee, SUNY Eye Institute; and
Research Career Scientist, VA Western NY Healthcare System (VAWNYHS).
MAILING ADDRESS: Buffalo VA Medical Center (VAWNYHS), Research Service- Mail Stop 151,
3495 Bailey Avenue (Bldg. 20- Rm 202), Buffalo, NY 14215-1129 U.S.A.
PH: 716-862-6538; Fax: 716-862-6526
*Email:* fliesler@buffalo.edu or steven.fliesler@va.gov
