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: Joan Wahlman
Vice Chair: John McMahan
Vice Chair: Michael Vitale
Treasurer: Renee Rump
Secretary: Eileen Bowden, MD

Board of Directors, (cont.)

John Bishop, MD
Corpus Christi, Texas

Eileen Bowden, MD
Austin, Texas

Ashley Braune
Boerne, Texas

Karmen Bryant
Midland, Texas

Lance Cunningham
Colleyville, Texas

Art DuBose
Houston, Texas

Devin Eller
Dallas, 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

Maria Sonsoles De La Cruz, MPA
Houston, Texas

Sarah Urbanczyk Elizondo, CPA
San Antonio, Texas

Michael Vitale
Dallas, Texas

Joan Wahlman
Austin, Texas

Sharona Washington-Lockett, MBA
Houston, Texas

Sushma Yalamanchili, MD
Houston, Texas