Mazzocco Microsurgical
Laboratory is designed to provide many types of services to the Department
of Ophthalmology. The lab is equipped in a virtually identical manner
to our operating room suite and is available to our residents, staff
physicians, and scientists. The lab is also used for training seminars
and ongoing research projects.
Goals:
To provide state-of-the-art
facilities for new and innovative microsurgical approaches in the
management of eye disease.
To provide an ideal educational environment for teaching of ocular
microsurgery.
Relevance
to blindness:
Numerous blinding
ocular diseases are treatable if not curable with microsurgical techniques.
New techniques to widen the scope of surgical management of blinding
eye disease will be under constant development.
Ophthalmologists in training and established ophthalmologists learning
new techniques will have their first experience in this lab - before
they begin operating on living human eyes.
The Mazzocco Microsurgery Laboratory is managed by Robin Troyer.
