Million dollar gift establishes a multidisciplinary surgical skills lab.

A new surgical clinic recently opened in the Medical Office Building at Chatham Hospital. UNC Health Care surgeons will operate in the year-old, nearly 4,000 square foot space. Surgeries will take place once or twice a week for the following specialty areas – ophthalmology; general surgery; ear, nose and throat; and gynecology.

We would like to announce that our own Dr. Amy Fowler has been accepted to Academy of Educators (AOE). The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine AOE was founded in October 2006 as a part of the School’s strategic plan to enhance research and scholarship towards excellence in teaching.

Dr. Donald Budenz, Dr. Jonathan Dutton and Dr. Travis Meredith of the UNC Department of Ophthalmology have been rated by US News and Castle Connolly’s estimation to be in the top 1 percent of all doctors in the nation in their specialities for 2012.

Sylvester and Gabriel Miniter standing at a mosque in Egypt As both a grateful patient and an international businessman, Sylvester F Miniter III has much personal experience and wisdom to share, and we at UNC Ophthalmology wanted to listen. On … Continued