This time, we provided assistance much closer to home.” “The van served as a mobile hub for ophthalmic care for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2006 and the Japanese earthquake-tsunami of 2011. Glaser Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Alfonso, M.D., director of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and professor and Kathleen & Stanley J. “We moved quickly to equip our Vision Van for the disaster relief effort in the Keys,” said Eduardo C. Flynn was named to The Ophthalmologist Power List 2018.A volunteer team from Bascom Palmer Eye Institute spent three days in September in Key West providing urgently needed vision care for residents, nurses, and disaster recovery personnel working to restore services in the Lower and Middle Keys that were devastated by Hurricane Irma. He has received numerous honors including the AAO Life Achievement Honor, the Florida Society of Ophthalmology Service to Medicine Award, The Club Jules Gonin Hermann Wacker Award, the Honorary Alumnus Award from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the Secretariat Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Flynn has served as president of the Vitreous Society, The Miami Ophthalmological Society, and the Retina Society. He has published more than 547 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited seven books including two that came out in 2018: Endophthalmitis in Clinical Practice, and Vitreoretinal Disease: Diagnosis, Management, and Clinical Pearls. In the area of research, Flynn has conducted numerous clinical trials including the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study, the Branch and Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Studies, and the Silicone Oil Study. He has been an instructor at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting, at the Association for Research in Vision in Ophthalmology, and at numerous national and international conferences. A specialist in the medical and surgical treatment of diseases of the retina and vitreous, he has been involved in the training of more than 600 residents, fellows, and visiting physicians over the past 40 years. Flynn, Jr., M.D., has a long and distinguished career in academic medicine through a combination of teaching, research, and patient care.

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