
Silvia Veitzman
As a paediatric opthalmologist I had dedicated my career on preventing childhood blindness. From starting a small program in Sao Paulo, Brasil through the transference of knowhow from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and many insitutions from USA working in close collaboration with expertises in the field more than 20 reference centers were created througout the country and Latin America to attend children and their families . Having witnessed how fast the causes of visual loss in children had changed over the years, CVI became my primary focus of interest. At SKERI, under the orientation of Prof Arvind Chandna at the SeeLab I am having the priviledge to learn and collaborate with our team on the development of tools that will certainly speed up the screening and the understanding of CVI.