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Dr. Anna Marie Fernandez: Theia Award Acceptance

Anna Marie Fernandez, OD, received the Dr. Mae Booth-Jones Mentoring Award. Hear her tell the powerful story of how her own struggles to become the first college graduate in her family have inspired her to support and mentor the students at SUNY College of Optometry, providing them with guidance that she did not have herself.

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