UNMH Lions Eye Center Opening Soon

-UNMH Lions Eye Center VIDEO.

We are building a new eye center that will expand our services in patient care, education and vision research. With the collaboration of the Lions, this Eye Center will have the following missions: provide state-of-the-art-care to the New Mexico population, expand our efforts in education of medical students and residents, and expand our research efforts at the national level with emphasis on diseases prevalent to New Mexico. We will focus on building a new Clinical Trial Center that will concentrate on clinical trials in diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of vision loss in the state. Also, we will expand our Telemedicine Screening Program for diabetic retinopathy, which will allow screening to take place at locations easily accessible to our rural patients. We are expecting to open the new Center in August, 2010.