The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, part of UHealth — the University of Miami Health System, recently opened reportedly the world's first integrated services center dedicated to helping infants and children with glaucoma.
Called the Samuel & Ethel Balkan International Pediatric Glaucoma Center, the facility offers young patients access to advanced specialists, leading-edge diagnostic technology and surgical treatments, and genetic screening with the center's ocular geneticist.
Additionally, the center has established an observership program called Global Eye SITE dedicated to the training of skilled surgeons from underserved countries. The program's curriculum reportedly includes workup and management of childhood glaucoma, ocular syndromes and ocular genetics.
The Balkan Center was reportedly made possible by a generous gift from Donna May Balkan Litowitz, with her husband Bob, in honor of her parents, Samuel and Ethel Balkan.
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Source: University of Miami Health System