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Million dollar gift establishes a multidisciplinary surgical skills lab.<\/p>\n

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The University<\/a> of North Carolina School of Medicine<\/a> received a $1 million gift from The North Carolina Eye Bank<\/a> (NCEB) to establish a unique and innovative multidisciplinary surgical skills lab.<\/p>\n

The gift to the Department of Ophthalmology will be shared among three neurosciences departments: Ophthalmology<\/a>, Neurosurgery<\/a>, and Otolaryngology\/Head and Neck Surgery<\/a>. The newly created laboratory, the only of its kind in the region, provides state-of-the-art surgical training opportunities to medical students, residents, fellows and physicians across the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining future generations of eye surgeons to serve the people of North Carolina is one of our top priorities at UNC Eye,\u201d said Donald L. Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology. \u201cThe new surgical training center will greatly enhance our educational mission by providing our residents with a state of the art facility where they can practice and learn from our world-class surgeons.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three departments celebrated the opening of the lab and $1 million gift from The North Carolina Eye Bank (NECB) with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, January 16th in the lab. <\/p>\n

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