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Archive for the ‘VISIONS’ Category

McGinnisThe diameter of the human eye is only about an inch, but for people with retinal degenerations, it can seem like a million miles.
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Turning Suffering Into Hope

29Jun

Paul KarosPaul Karos, a renowned airline-industry analyst and financial executive, spoke very movingly about his life and career at today’s welcome luncheon at VISIONS 2012 in Minneapolis. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 8, he struggled, at first, with the realization that he’d eventually lose his vision. But then he came across two influential people, including Gordon Gund, FFB’s co-founder and chairman, who helped him realize that he could achieve great things.
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Dr. Eric Pierce, chairman of the SAB, and Amy Laster, FFB's grants and awards program managerWhen the VISIONS 2012 conference began yesterday, the Foundation’s Science Department’s intensive work had already begun. On Wednesday afternoon, we put 15 members of our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in a meeting room at the hotel under lock and key. For the next 24 hours, we gave them only bread and water, forbidding access to friends and loved ones, and, perhaps most Draconian, we cut off their wi-fi access.
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Getting Personal at VISIONS 2012

28Jun

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John Corneille at VISIONS 2012
I work for FFB, as its director of gift planning, but I also actually have a retinal disease – something called retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. Although I was diagnosed at age 5, I didn’t discover I had RP till I was 18, partly because my parents didn’t want the disease to hold me back in any way.
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Hyatt Staff experiences sensitivity training
In preparation for the arrival of VISIONS 2012 attendees, we did what we usually do the day prior – provided hotel staff, everyone from housekeepers to food servers to managers, with blind-sensitivity training.

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