AMI Today - Fighting Blindness Canada's 50th Anniversary - August 23rd, 2024

On AMI Today, host Jacob Shymanski and other AMI contributors preview today’s AMI-audio lineup.

Get a sneak peek at the next Kelly & Ramya episode, the latest headlines from the Washington Post, Guardian and Globe & Mail, plus the latest in tech news from Double Tap Canada.

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:
o Stream Open (00:00)
o AMI Today Intro (01:05)
o Kelly & Ramya Preview with Kelly MacDonald (02:01)
o The Washington Post with Andy Frank (08:52)
o The Guardian Daily with Mike Ross (15:12)
o Double Tap with Steven Scott (18:10)
o The Globe & Mail Today with Corinne Van Dusen (23:03)
o Fighting Blindness Canada’s 50th Anniversary - Feature Interview Preview with Nisreen Abdel-Majid (29:50)
o Feature Interview: Dr. Larissa Moniz & Morgan Ineson of Fighting Blindness Canada (32:39)
o The Current State of Vision Health in Canada (34:01)
o Age-Related Eye Diseases (35:15)
o Landmark Achievements from Fighting Blindness Canada (36:22)
o Selecting Which Research Projects to Support (39:17)
o Gene Therapy & Other Promising Developments in Vision Health (41:13)
o The Education Component of Fighting Blindness Canada (43:29)
o Spreading Information & Peer Support Networks (44:57)
o FBC’s Annual Events (47:42)
o Inherited Retinal Disease Patient Registry (50:03)
o Evolution of Fighting Blindness Canada (52:54)
o Language of Disability (55:36)
o Show Close (58:18)

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