PCO Named Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group ‘Site of the Year’

PCO Named Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group ‘Site of the Year’

Salus University Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) received the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG) “Site of the Year” award at the PEDIG winter conference in February 2020, in Tampa, Fla. It is the first time Salus PCO won the award.

Erin Jenewein, OD, MS, assistant professor at PCO, is the principle investigator for PEDIG. Karen Pollack is the site coordinator.

PEDIG is a National Eye Institute funded inter-professional group that has published many landmark clinical trials in strabismus and amblyopia over the past two decades. And, The Eye Institute, PCO’s clinical facility, has been a PEDIG clinical site for almost 20 years.

PCO faculty PEDIG investigators also include Jing Wang, PhD, associate professor at PCO; Ruth Shoge, OD ’06, FAAO, assistant professor at PCO; Mitchell Scheiman, OD, PhD ‘16, FAAO, director of graduate programs in biomedicine, dean of research and professor at PCO; Jenny Myung, OD, FAAO, Resident ’09, assistant professor at PCO; Siva Meiyeppen, OD, FAAO, Resident ’15, assistant professor at PCO; Michael Galloway, OD, Resident ’81, associate professor at PCO; and Stanley Hatch, OD, MPH, FAAO, Resident ’91, chief of Pediatrics and Binocular Vision Service at The Eye Institute at Salus.