Rita Montauredes

Background

Ethnicity: One of Rita Montauredes's parents is of Italian descent.

Rita Montauredes was born in Flushing, New York, United States.

Education

Rita Montauredes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City University of New York in 1977.

Career

Rita Montauredes is Vice-President and administrator of Monte Music Inc. from 2009. She is also a Reiki Master at the company of her husband Tom Montauredes.

Montauredes is known as the author of the book Coping with Glaucoma (1997) written with Edith Marks. This is a story about the "silent thief of sight, an insidious eye disease that strikes without warning, without symptoms." It is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of glaucoma written for the general public. The book arrives in, and in turn advances, a period of unprecedented public attention to this shy, sly disease. This book is more than informative it provides the energetic, positive outlook that is in fact quite important to the glaucoma patient's management of the disease. This book contains not only the facts and figures of glaucoma, but the courageous example set by its author, as she responded to her sudden challenge with a determination to help others through research, writing, organizing, and conducting support groups, and, most of all, showing us how glaucoma patients can take charge and help to save their own eyesight. Montauredes' most recent book is The Blind Chef: If I Can Cook You Can Cook (2016).

Achievements

• Rita Montauredes is known and recognized as a patient advocate for the blind. She advocated in Albany to get $16 million to provide better library facilities for the blind including audio and braille books and talking elevators. She has won many awards for the work she has done on improving services for the blind including the glaucoma award for outstanding patient care and the humanitarian award for creating an audio newspaper for print challenge individuals.

Works

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  • Coping with Glaucoma

    (In Coping With Glaucoma, Edith Marks and Rita Montauredes...)

    1997
  • The Blind Chef: If I Can Cook You Can Cook

    (Simplicity in teaching is the key to overcoming fear of m...)

    2016

Views

Rita Montauredes was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 32. Her glaucoma puzzled doctors as they had difficulty controlling the pressure. She also has a cornea disease and had 3 operations each year in the late '80s and '90s. She searched for support groups and ended up founding a Glaucoma support group at New York Eye and Ear. After experiencing the discrimination that blind people encounter at medical clinics and facilities Rita became a patient advocate for the blind.

Membership

Rita Montauredes is a member of Soka Gakkai International.

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Rita Montauredes is blind.

Connections

Rita Montauredes married Tom Montauredes on August 6, 1978.

husband:

Tom Montauredes