ALLIANCES

• Kentucky Eye Care Alliance and Illuma Care Connections announced a partnership to improve eye health and lower the risk of blindness among residents of Kentucky. For more information, visit illumacc.com .
• Vision Source has partnered with Aledade Delaware ACO to provide eye health and vision services to patients in Delaware.

ASSOCIATIONS

• AAO and the World Council of Optometry will co-host the third World Congress of Optometry in conjunction with the Academy meeting in Orlando, tentatively to take place Oct. 23-28, 2019. For more visit aaopt.org or worldcongressofoptometry.org .
• The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society announced global ambassadors. Those for North America: Etty Bitton, O.D.; Sruthi Srinivasan, Ph.D.; Preeya Gupta, M.D.; Paul Karpecki, O.D.; Marguerite McDonald, M.D.; Leslie O’Dell, O.D.; Laura Periman, M.D.; Scott Schachter, O.D.; Bridgitte Shen Lee, O.D.; and Christopher Starr, M.D. Visit tearfilm.org .

COMPANY NEWS

• ABB Optical Group’s Primary Eyecare Network offers this education in February: Frame Adjusting Workshop and Frame Selection Workshop on Feb. 15.
• Area98 announced two new appointments: Monica Dal Cin, managing director, and Luciana Olivotto, head of sales.
• Eschenbach has appointed Taron Sutcliffe to vice president and officer of the corporation.
• Light Polymers, a nanochemistry company, will collaborate with Liquid Polarized on the next generation of polarized sunglasses and eyewear. The company will be included in a variety of Liquid Polarized’s products and, specifically, it’s Rock Wilson brand.
• Lyric Optical, a parent company of Super Optical International, is celebrating its 95th anniversary this year.
• NAI has appointed Eric Emley to vice president of global supply management.
• Novalique GmbH, a specialty pharmaceutical company with a disruptive drug delivery platform that transforms poorly soluble drugs into effective therapeutics for ophthalmology, announced the formation of its new subsidiary, Novaliq Inc., to be located in Cambridge, Mass.
• Shire’s Xiidra (lifitegrast ophthalmic solution 5%) has been approved in Canada, the first international approval.
• WestGroupe appointed Wallatta Delvaille to export sales manager.

FDA NEWS

• Sun Pharmaceutical Industries’ NDA for OTX-101, an aqueous solution for the treatment of dry eye disease, has been accepted by the FDA.

NON PROFIT

• Envision has received a $15,000 gift from Spirit AeroSystem’s Good Neighbor Fund to sponsor a pre-K classroom at Cathy G. Hudson Envision Child Development Center in Wichita.
• Seva Foundation, an eye health organization, has been named “Best Bet” among MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change applicants. Seva works with communities to develop self-sustaining eye care programs throughout the world. OM