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Vision Development Institute PC Hans & Amy Lessmann

**** ***** ******** ****** *** Overdale Road

Suite 130 Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4434

Pittsburgh, PA 15218-1871 412-***-****

412-***-****, fax 731-5251 412-***-**** cell

abp8di@r.postjobfree.com

www.optometrists.org/lessmann

Hans F. Lessmann, O.D., F.C.O.V.D.

Curriculum Vitae 2008

Optometric 2001 to present President of the Vision Development Institute, P.C.

Experience 1992 to 2001 Private Practice following the purchased the optometric

practice of Dr. Harry Wachs, O.D., F.C.O.V.D.

Board Certified as a Fellow in the College of Optometrists in Vision

Development (F.C.O.V.D.) in 1998.

Licensure Pennsylvania

Virginia

Education Pennsylvania College of Optometry, graduated 1986, Doctorate of

Optometry.

Purdue University, graduated 1983, Bachelor of Science degree.

Optometric 1992 to present Easter Seals Society, preschool program for the

Consulting multiple handicapped.

1999 to present NFL Combine Consultants with Drs. Berger & Wachs.

2002 & 2003 Warner House Clinic Tubingen, Germany for people with

Down syndrome.

2003 Pensylvania OD of the Year by the Pennsylvania Optometric

Awards

Association.

2003 Western Pennsylvania OD of the Year by the Western

Pennsyalvania Optometric Society.

2002 Recognition of Contributions to the Service of Children by Parents

Active for Vision Education.

1995 Certificate of Appreciation by Robert A. Kraskin O.D. Chairman for

the International Skeffingtion Symposium on Vision.

1986 SOSH Meritous Award Student Optometric Service to Hati by the

Pennsylvania College of Optometry.

Children s Vision Development & Screening Children with Special

In-Services

Needs Pennsylvania Association of the Blind, 2008 Fall Conference,

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Seven Springs Resort, October 15 .

Learning Disabilities, Spectrum Disorders, Behavior Problems, and

the Vision Connection, Westmoreland Association of Retarded

Citizens January 2008.

Visual Considerations for the Challenged Student-A Look from the

Inside-Out Easter Seals OT Departement of W PA, Nancy Mott

coordinator, February 2005

Vision W hat is it and What do we do about it? University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center-McKeesport-Latterman Family Health

Clinic, Medical Interns, Fall 2003.

Visual Enhancement for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Pittsburgh Vision Services Staff, Bridgeville & Oakland Centers, Fall

2003.

School Vision Screening: A Practical Approach to Implementing

New Guidelines, Cynthia Thomas, School Health Consultant, PA

Dept. of Health, SW District, Fall 2002.

Visual Enhancement for Patients with Developmental Disabilities

McGuire Memorial Home, Beaver County PA, August 2002.

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Vision Screening for the 21 Century Cynthia Thomas, School

Health Consultant, PA Dept. of Health, SW District, Fall 2001.

Seeing Through the Eyes of the Handicapped Child Pittsburgh

Pediatric Study Group at the Pittsburgh School for the Blind, 2000.

Considerations of the Visually Impaired December 1997, Allegheny

Intermediate Unit for the teachers of the visually impaired.

Vision in the Classroom elementary teachers of the Mt. Lebanon School

District.

Vision and Behavior West Virginia University - School of Behavioral

Medicine, 1994.

Vision and Learning In-Service for teachers of the non-public Pittsburgh

Schools division of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit of Mt. Oliver, 1991.

Vision and Literacy Pennsylvania Governors Mansion - Literacy Corps,

Governor Robert P. Casey, 1990.

Professional AOA American Optometric Association since 1982

Organizations POA Pennsylvania Optometric Association since 1984

W POS - W estern Pennsylvania Optometric Society, President in 2001.

COVD Fellow in the College of Optometrists in Vision Development,

Board certified in 1998.

OEP Optometric Extension Program since 1987.

MAOC - Middle Atlantic Optometric Congress, treasurer 1989 - 2000.

SEPP - Society for the Education of Physicians and Patients, President

2007 and 2008.

SOLCIOE - Pennsylvania Clinic Coordinator for the Special Olympics

Lions Club International Opening Eyes Vision Screening Program, 1999

to present.

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2007 Evaluating the Uncooperative Patient & Managing Perceptual

Professional

Anomalies in the Brain Injured or Autistic Patient, East-West Eye

Lectures

Conference, Cleveland Ohio.

2004 Duquesne University Physical and Occupational Therapy Students

and Faculty, Pittsburgh PA, Vision Enhancement for People with Down

syndrome .

2003 Trisomy 21 Research Conference, New Orleans, LA Visual

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Enhancement for People with Down Syndrome September 14 .

Pittsburgh Vision Service Joint Seminar on Vision Screenings Beyond

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the Organic August 13, 2003.

2003 Special Olympics World Games Health Symposium, Belfast

Ireland, Visual Enhancement for People with Mental Retardation .

2002 International Leadership Conference for Special Olympics Lions

Club International Opening Eyes vision screening of the Healthy

Athletes Initiative on Visual Enhancement for People with Mental

Retardation, Washington DC.

Visual Enhancement for People with Mental Retardation Neuro-

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Optometric Rehabilitation Association 2002 11 Annual Multi-Disciplinary

Confrerence on Autism, Cincinnati, OH.

Vision The Dominant Sense Fall Sensory Integration Series

sponsored by the Developmental Delay Registry, 2001.

Developmental Assessment of the Pre-School Child Middle Atlantic

Optometric Congress, 2001.

Behavioral Optometry Robert Morris College 1994.

Skeffington Symposium:

Video Clips of Optometry in Action 2008

Time Perception and Intellectual Dysabilities 2004.

A Discovery Skeffington Strikes Again 2003.

Tactile Insufficiency and Chronic Vertigo, 2002.

Optometric Tangents in Evaluating the Multi-handicapped, 2001.

Down syndrome - a quiet population of blur, 1999.

The Child who knows no blur, 1998.

The Warner House an Optometric Perspective, 1997.

Video Retinoscopy, 1995.

Generation transfer of an Optometric Practice, 1994.

Pennsylvania College of Optometry Dynamic Retinoscopy 1996,

student guest lecture.

Board Positions President of the Society for the Education of Physicians and Patients 2006

re-elected for second two year term 2008

DDR-Developmental Delay Resources www.devdelay.org 2004

Special Olympics of Allegheny County 2003 to 2005

Pediatric Vision Care Committee of the Pennsylvania Optometric Association

2002 to 2004

Western Pennsylvania Optometric Society President 2001 (WPOS).

Radio Information Service, 1999 to 2000.

Down Syndrome Group of Western PA, 1996.

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Community Three Rivers Rowing Association, (TRRA) 1988 to present, international

Interests competition in sweep rowing at the master s level.

Beulah Presbyterian Church, deacon 1997 to 2000.

Sylvan Canoe Club, 1999 to 2003.

Personal Notes Along with wife Amy parent to three children, Nicole (20) US Army,

Jessica (18), Karl (15), Jessica having Down syndrome.

Personal Interests: Family, Rowing, Bicycling, Fly Fishing, Camping,

Hiking, Photography.

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