This continuing medical education program benefited more than 350 optometrists and their technicians from North and South Carolina who attended the lectures featuring topics about a wide variety of eye disorders, complications and the newest surgical techniques. They learned about the latest techniques in caring for these eye problems, and heard about the national research projects involving Carolina Eye Associates doctors.
Dr. Anna Fakadej, Dr. Neil Griffin, Dr. Robert Gale Martin, Dr. Daniel Messner Dr. Gregory Mincey, Dr. Thomas Barowsky and Dr. Scott Tunis presented the updates.
Martin established Carolina Eye Associates in 1977. His vision of offering high quality surgical eye care at a low cost to patients culminated in one of the first free-standing outpatient eye surgical centers in the United States to be approved by Medicare.
Over the past 26 years, Carolina Eye Associates has become one of the largest privately owned ophthalmology practices in the United States with their doctors training hundreds of other doctors throughout the world.
More than 240,000 patients have entrusted their vision to Carolina Eye and patients have traveled from over 14 foreign countries for services.
