<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"><div id="wmQuoteWrapper"><div><br> <div style="font-size:12pt;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Name of Study: John Hopkins Vision Research Study<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Note: The following research is not conducted by the NRTC, and your name and contact information has not been shared with the study investigator. We are providing you this information on behalf of the project manager, Pamela Jeter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please direct all questions regarding this study to </font></span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:plovr@lions.med.jhu.edu"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">plovr@lions.med.jhu.edu</font></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">To be eligible for this study, participants must:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Be at least 10 years of age.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Have almost no remaining vision.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 3pt 9pt 0.75pt 0in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Description:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Researchers in the Lions Vision Center, part of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, are looking for volunteers with almost no remaining vision to participate in a questionnaire that will help them design vision training activities. If successful, these activities may help nearly-blind individuals learn to see a little better. In the future, blind patients with a retinal implant may use these activities to re-learn to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">That’s why we’re calling this program Prosthetic Low Vision Rehabilitation, or PLoVR and you can help make this possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you are at least 10 years old, we invite you to participate by answering up to 3<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">questionnaires over the course of 1-3 months about how you use your vision (at present or in the past), which will help us design the activities. There will be approximately 50-100 questions, and we expect each questionnaire to take about 30 minutes to an hour of your time. The activity can be completed over the telephone or online based on your preference. We will pay you $10 for completion of each questionnaire. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div style="font-size:12pt;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To learn more about the study and to enroll, please call Pamela Jeter at 410-502-6434, or e-mail us at </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="mailto:plovr@lions.med.jhu.edu">plovr@lions.med.jhu.edu</a></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>
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