University Eye Center
33 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
888-277-5666
www.sunyopt.edu/uec
E-mail: uec@sunyopt.edu
Additional contact information: www.sunyopt.edu/uec/contact

The University Eye Center (UEC) is the patient care facility of the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry. The range of services includes adult and pediatric eye care, management of ocular diseases, contact lenses, diagnostic testing, and vision rehabilitation including low vision services, head trauma services, vision therapy, and educational testing.

As a teaching facility, patients examined and treated in the UEC benefit from the careful oversight of supervising doctors with many years of patient care, teaching, and research experience. Every patient receives a comprehensive examination. If necessary, patients may obtain glasses or contact lenses, or have laser eye surgery performed on site.

The comprehensive low vision evaluation carefully assesses the patient's current visual status, identifies goals and visual needs, and results in an individualized rehabilitation program to meet these needs.

Rehabilitative measures include highly specialized eyeglasses and a full range of low vision devices, such as hand and stand magnifiers, telescopes, microscopes and electronic magnification systems.

The UEC Technology Center evaluates patients for CCTVs, computer adaptations and modifications, and other state-of-the-art high-tech devices.

Other measures available include sunwear and lighting evaluations, and environmental design consultations to maximize function in the patient's real world setting. UOC also provides social work services and referrals for Orientation and Mobility Training and Activities of Daily Living Programs as needed. Although low vision rehabilitation can not restore vision loss, most patients can benefit from services to make the most of their remaining sight.

UEC also provides a wide range of services not typically found at most eye care centers, from pediatric eye exams and learning disabilities assessments to the latest treatments for ocular diseases.

Meet Benjamin M. Freed, O.D., Low Vision Optometrist with the Homebound Eye Care Program at the State University of New York College of Optometry.