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2018 American Academy of Optometry Student Travel Fellowship Recipients Announced

The American Academy of Optometry is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2018 Student Travel Fellowship Awards. These travel fellowships will allow students to attend Academy 2018 San Antonio, November 7-10, 2018. Resident Travel Fellowship recipients will be announced at a later time.

Funded by an educational grant from Johnson and Johnson Vision:

Michelle Antonucci, University of California Berkeley
Memoona Arshad, University of New South Wales
Marielle Blumenthaler, The Ohio State University
Paul Brown, University of Alabama Birmingham
Kelly Cochran, University of Missouri St. Louis
Nevin El-Nimri, OD, MS, FAAO, University of California Berkeley
Lacey Haines, OD, FIACLE, University of Waterloo
Kam Ho, University of New South Wales
Deepayan Kar, BOptom, MS, University of Alabama Birmingham
Safal Khanal, OD, FAAO, University of Auckland
Corrin Lesjak, Indiana University
Lydia Pickrell, The Ohio State University
Maureen Plaumann, OD, FAAO, The Ohio State University
Sudan Puri, OD, University of Houston
Noor Haziq Saliman, BOptom, MHSc, University of Manchester
Sidra Sarwat, University of New South Wales
Keyur Savla, BOptom, University of Alabama Birmingham
Alaina Short, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Sloane Weed, The Ohio State University
Angela Zhang, University of Waterloo

Recipients will be honored at the Student and Resident Awards Lunch on Thursday, November 8 from Noon to 1:00 PM in Stars at Night Ballroom B4 in the Henry B. González Convention Center.

To read the full list of Student Travel Fellowship Awards recipients, click HERE.

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