About Us

Board of Directors

The Prevent Blindness Texas Board of Directors helps chart the agency’s course. They contribute a vast array of experience and skills that helps maintain our status as the state’s leading eye health and safety organization.

Executive Committee

Board Chair: Misha Syed, MD, MEHP
Vice Chair: Joan Wahlman
Vice Chair: Renee Rump
Treasurer: Andrea Sartin
Secretary: Eileen Bowden, MD

Board of Directors, (cont.)

John Bishop, MD
Corpus Christi, Texas

Eileen Bowden, MD
Austin, Texas

Ashley Braune
Boerne, Texas

Art DuBose
Houston, Texas

Tara Fitzgerald
Fort Worth, Texas

Janet Garza, OD 
Houston, Texas

Kimberly Leighton
Dallas, Texas

John McMahan
Dallas, Texas

Sima Mozdbar, OD, MPH, FAAO
Austin, Texas

Claudia Prospero Ponce, MD
El Paso, Texas

Amelie Ramirez
San Antonio, Texas

Renee Rump
Dallas, Texas

Andrea Sartin
Dallas, Texas

Loren Sobel
Dallas, Texas

Maria Sonsoles De La Cruz, MPA
Houston, Texas

Misha Syed, MD, MEHP
Galveston, Texas

Sarah Urbanczyk Elizondo, CPA
San Antonio, Texas

Celina Villanueva, OD
Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Michael Vitale
Dallas, Texas

Joan Wahlman
Austin, Texas

Sharona Washington-Lockett, MBA
Houston, Texas