{"id":1244,"date":"2018-12-06T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2018-12-11T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:26:11","slug":"assistant-professor-alex-damarjian-featured-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/assistant-professor-alex-damarjian-featured-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian Featured on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">PDI Check<\/h1>\n<p>Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian helped create a doctor and parent-approved video game entitled <em>PDI Check.<\/em> The game was designed and built with the help of world renowned Ophthalmologist Dr Robert Arnold, Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Tina Damarjian and Optometrist Dr Kyle Smith.<\/p>\n<p>If played in moderation, <em>PDI Check<\/em> can help young kids improve their eye sight and develop in educational, social, and physical ways.<\/p>\n<p>In a story titled &#8220;Video Game Eye Test Could Spark Revolution&#8221;, Professor Damarjian was recently interviewed by NBC Chicago reporter Anayeli Ruiz.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id=\"1244-1\" class=\"gallery gallery-1244 gallery-col-3 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium gallery-type-square\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class='gallery-item col-3' itemprop='associatedMedia' itemscope itemtype='https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'><a href='https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/alex-damarjian-nbc-interview-2018-02\/' itemprop=\"contentURL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/alex-damarjian-nbc-interview-2018-02-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"IAM Faculty member Alex Damarjian interviewed by NBC about PDI serious game\" 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If played in moderation, PDI Check can help young kids improve their eye sight and develop in educational, social, and physical ways. <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/assistant-professor-alex-damarjian-featured-on-nbc\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span> <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/assistant-professor-alex-damarjian-featured-on-nbc\/\">Continue Reading<span> Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian Featured on NBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44,42],"tags":[11,67,35,71,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iam.colum.edu\/iamwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}