In our feature interview we celebrate Fighting Blindness Canada’s 50th anniversary with Morgan Ineson and Dr. Larissa Moniz.

They discuss the organization’s biggest milestones in vision health and research from their past five decades.

Highlights:

• Feature Interview:  Dr. Larissa Moniz& Morgan Ineson of Fighting Blindness Canada’s 50th Anniversary (00:00)
• The Current State of Vision Health in Canada (01:43)
• Age-Related Eye Diseases (02:56)
• Landmark Achievements from Fighting Blindness Canada (04:04)
• Selecting Which Research Projects to Support (07:00)
• Gene Therapy & Other Promising Developments in Vision Health (08:56)
• The Education Component of Fighting Blindness Canada (11:11)
• Spreading Information & Peer Support Networks (12:39)
• FBC’s Annual Events (15:24)
• Inherited Retinal Disease Patient Registry (17:45)
• Evolution of Fighting Blindness Canada (20:36)
• Language of Disability (23:18)
• Show Close (26:00)

About Fighting Blindness Canada :Website, 50th Anniversary, Milestones

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