Jean Bennett, MD, PhD,Wins 2012 Bressler Prize inVision Science

One of the foremost specialists in the study of themolecular genetics of retinal degenerations as wellas in the development and application of gene ther-apy treatment for those same ocular diseases, JeanBennett, MD, PhD, has been awarded The JewishGuild for the Blind’s 2012 Alfred W. Bressler Prizein Vision Science.

Dr. Bennett is the F.M. Kirby Professor ofOphthalmology and Cell and DevelopmentalBiology as well as a Senior Investigator in the F. M.Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology at thePerelman School of Medicine, University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Bennett joined the staff of theScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman School ofMedicine in 1992. She also conducts research atthe Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeuticsat The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Development of Approaches for Treatment

A recent recipient of the prestigious NationalInstitutes of Health Pioneer Award for her trans-forming approaches to major challenges in biomed-ical and behavioral research, Dr. Bennett studies the

molecular genetics of inherited retinal degenera-tions, to use this knowledge in developingapproaches for treatment of these diseases, whichinclude retinitis pigmentosa, age-related maculardegeneration, Leber Congenital Amaurosis,Stargardt’s Disease, Choroideremia and Usher’sSyndrome.

Dr. Bennett’s work involves both the identificationand characterization of defective genes that causeblindness, and the study of currently untreatablehereditary retinal degenerations. To gain an under-standing of the mechanisms which lead to thesediseases, Dr. Bennett’s lab generates these diseasesin laboratory animals. For example, a recent studyconducted in her lab and with collaborators at the

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University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University andthe University of Florida led to a remarkable rever-sal of blindness in a dog of a blinding disease thataffects infants. This treatment is now being testedin human clinical trials

Positive Results in Gene TransferTreatments

A testament to her accomplishments, Dr. Bennett was named Scientific Director for the Phase I/IIhuman clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effica-cy of gene transfer treatments for Leber CongenitalAmaurosis due to RPE65 mutations. This study, currently being carried out at the Children’s Hospitalof Philadelphia is the first to report positive results in all twelve patients (aged 8 to 44 years). The great-est improvement was noted in the five childreninvolved in the study.

Dr. Bennett received her BS from Yale University andher PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

She received her MD from Harvard Medical Schooland completed postdoctoral fellowships in HumanGenetics at Yale University School of Medicine and inDevelopmental Genetics at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine.

The Bressler Committee

The Bressler Committee’s goal is the selection of anaccomplished vision care professional whose leader-ship, research and service have resulted in importantadvancements in the treatment of eye disease or reha-bilitation of persons with vision loss, and whose workportends future excellence.

The Alfred W. Bressler Prize

The Bressler Prize was established by The Guild in2001, through a bequest of Alfred W. Bressler, a NewYork attorney whose legal career spanned more than70 years, most of that time with the law firm of Moses& Singer.

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Brian A. Wandell, PhD, To Receive Guild/ARVOOberdorfer AwardThe Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology (ARVO) has chosen Brian A. Wandell, PhD, to receive the OberdorferAward in Low Vision at this year’s annual ARVO meeting in May. Dr. Wandell is Director of Stanford University’s Center forCognitive and Neurobiological Imaging. He isalso the Stein Family Professor in Stanford’sDepartment of Psychology. His research spanstopics on how we see, such as visual disorders, reading development in children, digital imagingdevices and algorithms.

The award was created by The Guild in collaboration with the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research because of The Guild’s special interest in low vision research and rehabilitation. MichaelD. Oberdorfer, PhD, after whom the award is named, served for many years at the National Institute of Health’s National Eye Institute as Director of the Low Vision and Blindness Rehabilitation program.

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Fashion Show andLuncheon DrawsGuild Supporters

Guild supporters and philanthropistsfrom the Palm Beaches, Jupiter,Wellington and Boca Raton gatheredin late February for a fashion showand luncheon at The Mar-A-Lago

Club, Palm Beach, FL. The Benefit’sHonorary Chairs were Tom Bishop andRoberta Golub, Grand Chair wasDorothy Sullivan, and the Co-Chairswere Judy Bergman, Deborah Bernstein,Anita Blatt and Patsy Spero. The inter-national house of BADGLEY MISCHKAprovided the runway show, featuringdesigns from its latest collection.

Young Visionaries Support The GuildThe Guild’s Young Visionaries held their fifth annual fund-raising event in earlyFebruary at the Mondrian SoHo, located in lower Manhattan with panoramic views.The event was co-chaired by Lauren Boxer, Rae Boxer, Keith Estabrook, ErvinHechavarria, Angelina Lippert, Adam Solomon and Beth and Zach Solomon. TheVisionaries come together to heighten awareness of The Guild’s mission and to raisefunds in support of its programs and services. The Event Sponsor was BroadviewNetworks and the Corporate Sponsor was Safety Building Cleaning Corporation.

Adam Smith and Jesse Berlandof Corporate Sponsor SafetyBuilding Cleaning Corporation

Yann Perrigault andErvin Hechavarria

Stephanie Heap of EventSponsor Broadview Net-works and Adam Solomon

Fruema Klorfeinand Helen Karp

Baylie Rosenberg, LoisFoster and Eleanor Nathan

Roberta Golub and Jayne Donahue

Betty Burr, Geri Kory and Pauline Raiff,Chairman of The Guild’s ExecutiveCommittee

Event Co-Chairs: Rae Boxer, Lauren Boxer, Zach and BethSolomon, Keith Estabrook, Angelina Lippert and Adam Solomon

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Judy Sobol, Harriet and Paul Moskowitz, Tom Bishop,Mary-Anne Krystal and Hillary Musser-Bishop

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In February, The Guild’s SightCare program, inpartnership with the New York State NursesAssociation (NYSNA), conducted a live webi-nar entitled Caring for People with Vision Loss.The 90-minute webinar was attended by nursesfrom hospital, home care and community-basedsettings. The webinar is available as an onlinecontinuing education course through NYSNA.

The webinar provides an overview of the func-tional impact of vision loss and offers tech-niques for improving care. Simple interven-tions that can improve independence inActivities of Daily Living are demonstrated, inaddition to environmental considerations forpeople with vision loss. Specialized low visionservices are also discussed. This is followed bya discussion of ways to improve personal interactions and communication with patients with vision loss.

Guild Director of Vision Program Development Roy G. Cole, OD, Guild Director of Special Programs Gordon Rovins, MS, CEAC and Yu-Pin Hsu, MS, OTR/L, EdD, from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centerare the presenters.

The New York State Nurses Association, an accredited provider of continuing nursing education by theAmerican Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation, is the nation's oldest and largest mul-tipurpose state professional association for registered nurses.

SightCare Trains Healthcare Providers

Developed by The Guild in 1998, SightCaretrains providers across the healthcare spec-trum, providing them with skills to meet theneeds of people who are visually impaired andblind. We are also an American OccupationalTherapy Association approved provider of con-tinuing education.

SightCare’s educational materials, most ofwhich are available in English and Spanish,have been distributed in all 50 states,Washington DC, Puerto Rico and 15 foreigncountries. For more information on SightCare,or to order materials, call 800-539-4845 orvisit www.sightcare.org.

SightCareSM Partners With NYS Nurses Association Caring for People with Vision Loss

An example of a technique to improve care, illustrated in the webinar.

An example of a technique to improve care, illustrated in the webinar.

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The Guild is expanding the service areas of two of itshealth plans, GuildNet, its Managed Long Term Care(MLTC) plan and GuildNet Gold. These two planstogether now serve more than 8,500 members.GuildNet’s expansion also includes the offering of anew plan, GuildNet Health Advantage.

New Service Area for GuildNet MLTC

GuildNet MLTC will now also be offered on StatenIsland and in Westchester County in addition to theBronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Nassau andSuffolk Counties.

GuildNet MLTC is the only MLTC that specificallyaddresses the chronic and complex healthcare needsof people with vision loss. Individuals with Medicaidwho need nursing home level care, but are able to stayin their homes safely with the help of a coordinatedand extensive range of home and community-basedhealth services are eligible for GuildNet MLTC.

New Service Area for GuildNet Gold

GuildNet Gold, an integrated Medicare and Medicaidcare plan will expand its service area to includeNassau and Suffolk Counties in addition to the Bronx,Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. GuildNet Gold provides the same services as GuildNet MLTC, and

all benefits covered by Medicare which include doc-tor visits, hospitalizations, prescription drug coverageand much more.

A New Plan

GuildNet Health Advantage will be available in theBronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, as well asNassau and Suffolk Counties.

GuildNet Health Advantage members will be provid-ed with care that is coordinated between all providersin order to promote and improve health outcomes. Forthis plan, initial health assessments are conducted and then care plans and interventions including dis-ease management programs are individualized foreach member

Both GuildNet Gold and GuildNet Health Advantagecoordinate benefits and offer a Point of Service optionthat allows members to see Medicare providers out ofnetwork.

To learn more about GuildNet’s MLTC plan, call 1-800-932-4703.

To learn more about GuildNet Gold and GuildNetHealth Advantage, call 1-800-815-0000.

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Guild CEO and President Alan R.Morse, JD, PhD, will introduce thekeynote speaker, Lois E.H. Smith, MD,PhD, at the National Association forParents of Children with Visual Im-pairments’ (NAPVI) National/Inter-national Family Conference to be heldin Newton, MA, July 27-29, 2012. Dr.Smith, a 2006 Guild Bressler Prizewinner, is Professor of Ophthalmologyat Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medi-cal School. The focus of Dr. Smith’sresearch is retinopathy of prematurity.

College Preparation, HealthyEating, New Technologies

Also participating will be Gordon Rovins, Director of Special Programs, who will moderate a panel ofcollege students on the subject of preparing for col-lege with a disability. Haben Girma, who received a scholarship from The Guild in 2006 and is now at Harvard Law (see article at bottom of this page), will be on the panel. Mr. Rovins will also beon a panel advising on sources of financial aid for college applicants.

Annemarie O’Hearn, The Guild’s VicePresident for Education and Training,will be presenting at the conference.She will provide parents with simpleways to help their children develop andmaintain healthy eating habits that con-tribute to lifelong health and diseaseprevention.

Chancey Fleet, Guild Adaptive Tech-nology Specialist, will speak about newtechnologies that are available as well as applications for the Apple iPadthat might be accessible to blind andvisually impaired students.

NAPVI is a national, non-profit organization that en-ables parents to find information and resources for theirchildren who are blind or visually impaired, includingthose with multiple disabilities. The organization pro-vides leadership, support and training to assist parentsin helping their children reach their full potential.

For additional information on the 2012 NAPVIConference, to be held in Newton, MA, July 27-29,call Dan Callahan, Director of The Guild’s Children’sVision Health Initiative, at 212-769-7815.

A GuildScholar Studies at Harvard Law In 2006, Haben Girma, a student at Skyline High School in Oakland, CA, was one of fourteen high school students to receive a scholarship from The Guild as partof its GuildScholar program.

After graduating from high school, Ms. Girma, who is legally blind and also has a hearing impairment, went on to attend Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR,where she majored in sociology/anthropology.

In her final year at Lewis & Clark, Ms. Girma served as a US delegate on Mobility International’s US/Costa Rica Disability Rights and Leadership Exchange.“I was part of a cross-cultural exchange that challenged our notions of disability, and through this experienceI determined to become a stronger disability rights advocate,” she said recently.

Ms. Girma decided to study law because, “although I enjoyed anthropology, I realized I needed additionalskills in order to help facilitate change. I’m in my second year at Harvard Law, choosing my own classes,including Music and Digital Media, Disability Law, Taxation and Employment Discrimination. At themoment I’m fascinated by the intersection of intellectual property and disability rights law.”

Haben Girma

Lois E.H. Smith, MD, PhD,keynote speaker at the NAPVIConference

Guild Will Co-Sponsor 2012 National Conference For Parents of Visually Impaired Children

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The Guild continues its col-laboration with ColumbiaUniversity Medical Center’sDepartment of Ophthalmol-ogy/Harkness Eye Institute,recently taking part in themonth-long basic science course which focuses on res-ident training but also hasproven useful for the visualsciences community.

As part of the course, Roy G.Cole, OD, Guild Director ofVision Program Develop-ment, gave a half-day pro-gram on low vision rehabilitation. He discussed vision loss and the rehabilitation interventions avail-able. He also instructed the residents in providing clinical care, highlighting the services available topatients at The Guild.

Scientific Frontiers in Ophthalmic Imaging

One part of the basic science course is a full-day symposium, offered to residents as well as MDs andODs. This year’s symposium, co-sponsored by The

Guild and well attended,was entitled “ScientificFrontiers in OphthalmicImaging”. The aim of thesymposium was to providean overview of the manytechnologies now beingapplied for imaging the eyeand their clinical applica-tion, with special emphasison the latest developments.

Clinical Rotation

The Guild’s collaborationwith Columbia University’s

ophthalmology training extends to second-year resi-dents who come to The Guild as part of their clinicalrotation. They work with The Guild’s Director of LowVision Rehabilitation Services, Laura Sperazza, OD,who trains them in the testing appropriate for lowvision patients and in the use of low vision devices.She then provides supervision while they see theirpatients over a six-session period, reviewing thepatients’ charts with them and together making deci-sions about care and referrals.

Collaboration Continues With Columbia University

An illustration from Dr. Roy Cole’s program on low visionrehabilitation, part of the basic science course for residenttraining at Columbia University’s Harkness Eye Institute.

GuildNet Has Two New Senior Vice Presidents Laura Brannigan, RN, MA, has been promoted toSenior Vice President Quality Assurance / PerformanceImprovement, for GuildNet. She joined The Guild in2005 as Director of Clinical Support Services forGuildNet. Before joining The Guild, Ms. Brannigan wasDirector of Performance Improvement, CommunityServices, for The Jewish Home & Hospital LifeCare ofNew York. She received her BSN from AdelphiUniversity, her MA from Hofstra University, and her BSfrom Syracuse University.

Ruth O’Neal, RN, MA, has been promoted to SeniorVice President, Intake, for GuildNet. She joined The Guild in 2001, as a Nurse Case Manager. Before com-ing to The Guild, Ms. O’Neal worked for the Montefiore Home Health Agency. She received her BS inNursing from Lehman College in the Bronx and her MA from Iona College in New Rochelle.

Laura Brannigan Ruth O’Neal

8Workplace Tech Offers Training on Apple ProductsThe Guild’s Center for Workplace Technology, partof the Rehabilitation Services Department, recentlyexpanded its technology training and is now offeringassessment and instruction on the Apple Macintoshoperating system as well as the iPad to the growingnumber of blind and visually impaired people whouse Apple products. These are known for their built-in accessibility features, which include VoiceOver(screen reader) and Zoom (screen magnification).

Importance of Hand Gestures

Training is similar to that which the Center has pro-vided for some years on PCs except that the Appleplatform has many features that PCs don’t have, atleast not yet. One such feature is the hand gesturingthat allows the user to activate the accessibility fea-tures, something that many people with visionimpairment find easier to deal with than searchingfor the correct keys on a keyboard.

Students, who are referred to The Guild by the NewYork State Commission for the Blind and VisuallyHandicapped, are taught how to manage these accessibility features with the use of mainstream softwareand third-party applications. These may include Microsoft Word, iWork pages, the Internet, e-mail, andscanning/reading software such as Kurzweil 3000.

Guild Assistant Adaptive Technology Specialist PedroLaureano teaches Darron Stitt (left) how to take notes on an Apple iPad tablet. The tablet was configured to magnify information on the screen with a keyboard dock to make typing easier.

A Seminar Devoted to Low Vision Products Freedom Scientific®, one of the country’s leadingdesigners and manufacturers of vision enhancementdevices and computer software for visually impairedcomputer users, recently visited The Guild to take partin a Low Vision Awareness Day. Staff from FreedomScientific led in-depth discussions on the latest in scanning and reading devices for the desktop as well assmaller hand-held magnifiers. Roy G. Cole, OD, GuildDirector of Vision Program Development, presented anoverview of Guild programs and services and talkedabout the difference between vision care and visionrehabilitation.

William Kilroy of Freedom Scientific (left) demonstrates toDr. Roy Cole the latest in High Definition CCTVs.

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Guild Clients Enjoy Two Classical Music RecitalsGuild clients from the Continuing Day Treatment Program andstudents from the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Guild Schoolrecently enjoyed two recitals organized by Guild Music TherapistFred Paterno, MA, ACMT, and brought to The Guild under theauspices of Pro Musicis, an organization that provides concertopportunities to world-class musicians.

Pianist Plays Bachand Elliott CarterPianist Maya Hartman performedpieces by J. S. Bach, FranzSchubert and Elliott Carter. Ms.Hartman has appeared as a soloistwith orchestras as well as inrecitals in the United States,Canada, England, and Switzerlandas well as in Israel, her nativecountry.

Solo and Chamber Musicfor Guitars and FluteGuitarists Luiz Mantovani and EmanueleSegre, from Brazil and Italy respectively,accompanied by flautist Michel de Paula (alsofrom Brazil), performed music by IsaacAlbéniz, Heitor Villa-Lobos and LiduínoPitombeira. The day after their Guild recital,the three musicians, as well as another gui-tarist and a cellist, performed in Weill RecitalHall at Carnegie Hall as part of a celebrationof the 46th anniversary of Pro Musicis.

Founded in France in 1965, part of ProMusicis’ mission is to share the talent of itsmusicians through community-service perfor-mances, such as those at The Guild.

Laurie Rubin Sings

Former Guild client and celebratedmezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin re-cently launched her new CD, “DoYou Dream in Color”. The CD,released on the Bridge Recordslabel, features as its title track asetting of a poem by Ms. Rubinabout her life as an artist who hap-pens to be blind. The poem is setto music by Bruce Adolphe.

Laurie Rubin

Maya Hartman

Emanuele Segre (left), Luiz Mantovani and Michel de Paula

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Guild President and CEO Alan R. Morse, JD, PhD,presented “Avoiding the Fate of the Scorpion andthe Frog” at a Symposium on Risk Adjustment forIntegrated Care, sponsored by the MassachusettsMedicaid Policy Institute in Boston, February 2012.

Verena Cimarolli, PhD, Jewish Home Lifecare;Alan R. Morse, JD, PhD; Amy Horowitz, DWS,Fordham University and Joann P. Reinhardt, PhD,Jewish Home Lifecare, authored “Impact of visionimpairment on intensity of occupational therapy uti-lization and outcomes in subacute rehabilitation”, in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy,66 (2), March/April 2012.

Dr. Morse also wrote an editorial “Talking topatients about vision loss and rehabilitation” in theFebruary 2012 Archives of Ophthalmology, 130 (2),235-236.

Paul P. Lee, MD, JD, Department of Ophthalmology,Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons and Alan R. Morse, JD, PhD, wrote an editorial “Comparative Effectiveness: Insights on Treatment Options for Open-Angle Glaucoma”in the April 2012 Archives of Ophthalmology, 130 (4), 506-507.

César A. Alfonso, MD, Guild Psychiatrist, recentlypresented “Contributions of Psychoanalysis to thePractice of Psychotherapy in the United States” at aconference entitled Psychoanalysis and DynamicPsychiatry: Transcultural Aspects in Training andPractice, held at Chulalongkorn University inBangkok, Thailand.

Laura Brannigan, RN, MA, GuildNet SeniorVice President Quality Assurance/PerformanceImprovement authored “Medication Compliance”in ADVANCE for Nurses – Northeast, vol. 12, no.3, February 2012. The article describes GuildNet’s finding that automated medication dispensingimproves patient outcomes.

Sandra Birnbaum, RN,FNP, MPH, joins TheGuild as Assistant VicePresident, Medicare Ser-vices for GuildNet. Be-fore coming to The Guild,she worked for Compre-hensive Care Manage-ment, New York. She re-ceived her BS in Nursingfrom Case Western Re-serve University, her FNPfrom Hahnemann Hospital, Worcester, MA, herMPH from the State University of New York(SUNY), Albany and her BS from CornellUniversity.

Elizabeth Meyer, CRRN,BSN, joins The Guild asQuality Assurance / Perfor-mance Improvement Sup-ervisor for GuildNet. Priorto joining The Guild, sheworked for the Cold SpringHills Long Term HomeHealthcare Program inWoodbury, NY. She re-ceived her nursing trainingat SUNY, Farmingdale andher BSN from Molloy College.

At The Guild

Elizabeth Meyer

Sandra Birnbaum

GUILDNET PROMOTIONSMaria Fallon, RN, has been promoted to StaffDevelopment Specialist for GuildNet. Shejoined The Guild in 2007 as a Nurse CaseManager for GuildNet.

Frachely Miranda-Peralta, RN, has been pro-moted to Intake Supervisor for GuildNet. Shejoined The Guild in 2007 as an Intake CaseManager for GuildNet.

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Deyanira Peña-Mar-tinez, LMSW, joins TheGuild as a Social Workerfor GuildNet. Beforecoming to The Guild, sheworked for the LincolnMedical and MentalHealth Center in theBronx. She received herMSW from Yeshiva Uni-versity and her BA fromHunter College.

Vernon C. Lee, RN,WCC, joins The Guild asa Program Nurse forGuildCareSM Manhattan.Before joining The Guild,he worked in the Ad-vanced Wound Care Cli-nic at Beth Israel MedicalCenter. He received hisnursing training at Phil-lips Beth Israel School ofNursing.

Andrea Ahanonu, RN; Deborah Arcaria, RN;Susan DeLeonardis-Linton, RN; BelindaDuncan, RN; Beverly Pearrear RN; BibianeSykes, RN; and Deborah Walker, RN, join TheGuild as Nurse Case Managers for GuildNet.Jean-Pierre Diaz joins The Guild as a MarketingAssociate for GuildNet.

Karen Ducreay joins The Guild as ActivitiesCoordinator at GuildCare Albany. Before comingto The Guild she worked at Emeritus at ColonieManor, a retirement community in Latham, NY.She received her BSE from SUNY Cortland.

Guild Adaptive Technology Specialist ChanceyFleet was interviewed for the article “Braille comesunbound from the book: how technology can stopa literary crisis”, published on the website(www.guardian.co.uk) of the British newspaperThe Guardian, 2.14.12. The article describes howApple products, such as the iPad, iPhone and iPodTouch are at the forefront of technology helpingBraille replace text-to-speech audio for users whoare blind.

Deyanira Peña-Martinez

Vernon C. Lee

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Guild Students Go to Work! When students at The Guild’s Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Schoolreach the age of 14, they spend time as interns in local businessesor non-profit organizations.

The cafeteria at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center was recentlyadded to the list of sitesthat welcomes Guild stu-dents. St. Luke’s-Roose-velt’s Volunteer ServicesDepartment is a longtime supporter of the in-ternship program.

Among other sites thatsupport the program arelululemon athletica, aretailer of yoga-inspiredathletic apparel, andHunter College. The program allows Guild students to experience a wide range of real-life everyday situations that help them devel-

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Gabriel Tolama puts garments on hangersat lululemon athletica’s Broadway store.

Valerie Liranzo wipes down a table in thecafeteria at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt HospitalCenter.