Dr. Randolph Kinkade has been treating low vision patients for over twenty-five years. He travels extensively helping patients with visual impairments and often lectures on vision rehabilitation topics.

He currently treats patients in Manhasset (Nassau county) and Smithtown (Suffix county). He plans to open a location in Westchester county in the near future.

Dr. Kinkade is a 1981 graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry and specializes in Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometry. He also has a Masters Degree of Public Health from the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut. He has adapted his studies to concentrate on prevention of disabilities related to visual impairments.

He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Optometry Low Vision Section and also a member of the Low Vision Rehabilitation Section of the American Optometric Association. Dr. Kinkade is a low vision consultant for the Connecticut Board of Education and Services for the Blind.

As a founding member of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists, he meets annually to advance the field of low vision with top optical designers and manufacturers.

Dr. Kinkade also offers consultations in Connecticut and in the greater Boston area.

He enjoys walking the beach with his wife and stays busy keeping track of his three sons. Dr. Kinkade's hobbies include gardening and golfing.

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Being a former New Yorker, Dr. Shuldiner enjoys coming to New York once a month to see patients. His office is on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Dr. Shuldiner is Clinical Director of LOW VISION OPTOMETRY of southern california, with offices in Glendale, Palm Springs, Mission Viejo, Corona, Long Beach, and La Jolla.

Richard J. Shuldiner, O.D., F.A.A.O., helped found the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists in 2006. All of the members of the Academy have received extensive advanced training in Low Vision Care by Dr. Shuldiner in California.

Richard J. Shuldiner, O.D., F.A.A.O., attended Long Island University from 1964-1966 and received his Doctor of Optometry degree from Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1970. He completed an internship and residency in Vision and Child Development in New York. In 1975, he received certification in Low Vision from the New York State Optometric Association.

In 1988, Dr. Shuldiner became the 41st Low Vision Diplomate from the American Academy of Optometry. Currently, there are 45 practicing diplomates in Low Vision.

Dr. Shuldiner created and served as director of the Westchester Lighthouse Low Vision Clinic in New York, and was an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at New York Medical College. He was instrumental in establishing the "Dutchess Lighthouse", a new agency for the blind,in Poughkeepsie, New York, in July, 1985.

Dr. Shuldiner has lectured on Low Vision Care to eye professionals in Russia, China, Hong Kong, Africa and throughout the United States. He has numerous articles published in the optometric literature. He has been featured in many newspapers for his work in contact lenses, and with the visually impaired. The doctor has been on television and radio, educating the public on the need for routine eye-health care.

Dr. Shuldiner trains doctors of optometry to add low vision care to their practice. All of the members of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists have received extensive advanced training by Dr. Shuldiner.