Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast

Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast

At Prevent Blindness, we promote vision and eye care for all. We educate people about protecting their sight. We provide resources for the blind and low-vision community and their allies, and we celebrate their achievements.

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January 5, 2026 19 mins

Join us for the first episode of season two of the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast. Host Christopher Hord discusses glaucoma and the coming work of Prevent Blindness with Jeff Todd, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness.

 

Find out more about glaucoma.

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Host Christopher Hord discusses Thyroid Eye Disease week and conducts a round-table discussion on diabetes and eye health with Talana Townsend, ASPECT program graduate and President & Communication Chair of Visually Impaired Advocates in Houston; with Dr. Rajeev Ramchandran, Retina specialist at the University of Rochester; and with Nita Sinha, Senior Director of Public Health at Prevent Blindness.

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Diabetes...

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Host Christopher Hord interviews Prevent Blindness ASPECT Patient Advocacy Program member Evelyn Jordan about her journey with Stargardt disease and her work as an advisory board member of PhoneFaith, a live dial-in outreach ministry for adults who are blind or have low vision. Prevent Blindness affiliate, Prevent Blindness Texas, has launched a new podcast. October is Contact Lens Safety Month at Prevent Blindness.

World Sight Day...

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In this episode of the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast, host Christopher Hord talks with Dan Roberts, M.M.E., editor-in-chief of Living Well With Low Vision and Founding Director of MD Support, Inc. 

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August is Children's Eye Health and Safety Month at Prevent Blindness.

On September 17, 2025, Prevent Blindness will hold its final Swing Fore Sight golf tournament in conjunction with Vision Expo We...

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In our July episode:

  • Host Christopher Hord discusses the Prevent Blindness ASPECT patient advocacy program with Prevent Blindness staff Julie Grutzmacher, director of patient advocacy & population health initiatives; Jeanetta Price and Elisabeth Edwards, ASPECT program managers. 
  • Certified mindfulness teacher Eric Cooley provides an overview of mindfulness as it relates to vision loss and blindness.
  • July is Dry Eye Month a...
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On this episode of the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast:

The new Disney/Pixar movie, Elio, highlights eye patching and children's vision.

Apply to join the Prevent Blindness ASPECT Patient Engagement Program.

June is Cataract Month.

Sara Brown, Senior Director, Government Affairs with Prevent Blindness; Dan Ignaszewski, Executive Director of the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) and the National Alliance for ...

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In this episode of the Focus on Eye Health Podcast, Bryan and Bradford Manning, co-founders of Two Blind Brothers, discuss Stargardt disease, one type of Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) with Jeff Todd, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness. Bryan and Bradford also share the inspiration behind their company, which dedicates 100% of profits to curing blindness.

Also in this episode, information about the reintroduction of the EDVI A...

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Episode 2 of the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health podcast features:

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In our inaugural episode the Focus on Eye Health Podcast, hosted by Christopher Hord:

-March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month

-An interview with Prevent Blindness President & CEO Jeff Todd

-Music by Jason Consolacion

-Join us for the 2025 Focus on Eye Health Summit: Perspectives in Vision

-Helping families remove barriers to eye care after receiving a referral from a vision screening.

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February 7, 2025 3 mins

Hosted by advocate Chris Hord, the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Podcast premieres in March, 2025. At Prevent Blindness we promote vision health and eye care for all. We educate people about protecting their sight. We provide resources for the blind and low vision community and their allies, and we celebrate their achievements. Each monthly half-hour episode features information of interest to people of all ages, the blind ...

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