December 16, 2010
Nephrology expert Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D., was among the many Miller School physicians and scientists who made presentations to members of the scientific and business communities at the third annual UM Innovation Technology Showcase.
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December 02, 2010
When Raisa Gonzalez, executive assistant to Eduardo Alfonso, M.D., saw her boss arrive at the holiday breakfast for executive assistants on Thursday morning, she immediately thought she had made a mistake. She mentally scanned his schedule to determine if she had double-booked him. She soon learned that she was wrong, which doesn’t happen often to Gonzalez.
November 05, 2010
Three clinics within UHealth–the University of Miami Health System have been recognized for their “statistically significant improvement” in patient satisfaction by Press Ganey, the national patient perception research and quality improvement-tracking firm. This has provided an overall boost for the entire health system, which also was highly ranked by Press Ganey.
November 04, 2010
On Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, Andrew Pollack of the New York Times wrote an article describing a secret rebate program between the pharmaceutical company Genentech and select eye doctors throughout the country. In this program, eye doctors are offered a financial kick-back if they increase their use of an expensive eye drug known as Lucentis to treat patients who have the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Lucentis was approved by the FDA in 2006 to treat this blinding disease. Some patients with this condition require repeated injections of this drug for many years at a cost of approximately $2,000 per injection. The ophthalmologists at the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute have not participated in this program and will never accept any type of financial kick-back designed to influence patient care.
October 19, 2010
Staff and faculty at the Miller School received three of the South Florida Business Journal’s 2010 Excellence in Health Care Awards, earning the top honor in every category for which they were finalists. A team at The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) received the Community Outreach Award, while Laurence Gardner, M.D., executive dean for education and policy, was honored.
October 14, 2010
For the third consecutive year, the Miller School’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been ranked as having the nation’s best overall programs in a survey published by Ophthalmology Times. Bascom Palmer ranked best in both clinical care and residency training, and second in research.
October 08, 2010
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has been ranked, for the third consecutive year, as having the Best Overall Programs in the nation, as published in the October 1 edition of Ophthalmology Times. The Institute also ranked “Best” in both Clinical (Patient) Care and Residency Training.
July 15, 2010
For the seventh year in a row, UM’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been ranked the Number One hospital in the country for ophthalmology.
July 02, 2010
Over 150 world leaders in science, engineering and clinical practice met at the 7th Accommodation Club meeting in Miami, Florida, to solve the problem of how to give presbyopes near vision as good as when they were young. More than one billion people in the world are presbyopic, which is growing as the world’s population grows and ages. An estimated 517 million of these are without correction for functional presbyopia.
June 28, 2010
The Florida Society of Ophthalmology (FSO), the preeminent statewide professional association for medical and osteopathic doctors who specialize in vision care, installed Stephen G. Schwartz, MD, MBA, as president at its Annual Meeting, Masters in Ophthalmology, held June 25-27 in Orlando.
June 14, 2010
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, part of UHealth – the University of Miami Health System, today announced that Vittorio Porciatti, D. Sc., has been named director and vice chair of research at the Institute. A tenured research professor of ophthalmology, as well as a neuroscientist, electrophysiologist and biophysicist, Porciatti’s current research focuses on prevention of glaucoma. He had served as Bascom Palmer’s interim scientific director since 2008.
