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Optometry honors professor, 2 alumni

Awards recognize service to UH and optometric field

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Two alumni and a faculty member were honored for their contributions to the UH College of Optometry during a recent ceremony.

Clinical assistant professor William Miller received the Cora and J. Davis Armistead Faculty Teaching Award for his teaching and service to the college. Miller, who was named Teacher of the Year three consecutive times, has been active in educational programming for the optometry college and has been invited to speak locally and around the country. 

Dennis Golden, a 1977 optometry graduate and member of the UH System Board of Regents, won this year's Distinguished Alumni Award. Golden has a private practice in Carthage and was the winner of the 2003 Texas Optometric Association's Optometrist of the Year award, which recognizes commitment to optometry in Texas.

Alumna Kim Castleberry, who graduated in 1983 and has a group practice in Plano, received the Outstanding Volunteer Award for representing the College of Optometry in Dallas.

Castleberry helped establish the BridgeBuilders Eye Clinic, a partnership with the Dallas Housing Authority that serves people in need of eye care who don't have the means to pay for it. Castleberry provides funding for many materials used in the clinic and volunteers as an optometrist there; he has also arranged to have both a full-time UH faculty member and a UH student on externship rotation in the clinic beginning in the fall.

The UH College of Optometry is one of 17 in the United States and is the only one in the Southwest. Its graduates practice in nearly every state and in 24 countries; the college provides vision care each year for more than 35,000 patients in the on-campus University Eye Institute and serves another 10,000 in community clinics.
 

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