Dr. Corina van de Pol is passionate about volunteering. She has been a Lion for 15 years and served on international Lions Club vision missions for almost 30 years. Her first clinic trip was to Chile in 1990 with Help the World See, a predecessor to Lions in Sight. Since then, she has completed over 75 missions and vision screenings in 16 countries.  

Corina served in the US Army for 26 years as an optician, maintenance officer, optometrist, and research optometrist. After retiring from the Army as a Lt. Colonel, she joined AcuFocus, Inc., a medical device company. For 10 years she managed their clinical trials for the development and eventual FDA approval of the KAMRA corneal inlay. Currently, Corina is responsible for the geometric and physical optics, and the ocular anatomy and physiology courses at the Southern California College of Optometry (SCCO) at Marshall B. Ketchum University. She serves as the faculty advisor for both the SVOSH and the Lions chapters at SCCO.
 

Tamara Sternod, a licensed optician, has worked in optical since 1996 and is currently an optician at Sam’s Club in Reno, Nevada. She is a 7-year Board Member of the Nevada State Board of Dispensing Opticians.

Ms. Sternod is a member of the Reno Host Lions Club and will serve as president of the club in 2020 during the club’s 100th anniversary. She has attended many LIS clinic trips in the past four years. Ms. Sternod and her husband manage a Lions Club eyeglass recycling center. The glasses they collect are shipped to LIS multiple times per year.

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