NSUCO’s Professor, Dr. Janet L. Leasher, Receives the International Optometrist of the Year 2022 Prize
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NSUCO’s Professor, Dr. Janet L. Leasher, Receives the International Optometrist of the Year 2022 Prize
Janet L. Leasher, OD, MPH, FAAO, FNAP received the International Optometrist of the Year 2022 prize from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Faculty of Optometry and Optics in Terrassa, Spain (FOOT) in December 2022.
Dr. Leasher received the award at the graduation ceremony for the class of 2022 at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia and delivered the graduation keynote address. The award was presented by Aurora Torrent PhD, Dean of UPC FOOT and the president of the COOOC (Official College of Optician-Optometrists of Catalonia), Joaquim Grau I Ingrada.
In conjunction with this award, she became the godmother of their incoming class of 2022 (who will graduate in 2026), and two student travel scholarships will be granted in her name for two students of this class to attend a professional Congress of Optometry.
Nova Southeastern University and UPC have a long history of collaboration, commencing in 2003 surrounding the work of the UNESCO Chair in Visual Health and Development. UPC housed the chair at the FOOT and NSU was the North American coordinating center until 2016.
