The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) celebrates the opening of the Microsurgical Education Center for Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology. Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony are (from left): Douglas Buxton, MD, who teaches ophthalmology residents at the center; Joseph P. Corcoran, president of NYEEI; Mrs. Jorge N. Buxton; and Christopher Linstrom, MD, director of otology resident education.

New York—The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) celebrates the grand opening of its $1 million, 1,200-square-foot Microsurgical Education Center for Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology.

The new education center, which replaces the Temporal Bone Laboratory, will be used to train ophthalmologists in cataract removal, vitrectomy, and corneal surgery. Otolaryngologists will learn to repair perforated eardrums, malfunctioning bones of the middle ear, dizziness, and facial paralysis, to transplant human ear bones, and to perform cochlear implant surgeries.

About 500 specialists will train physicians and residents in the new microsurgical center. (Photos courtesy of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary)

The center includes 16 work stations, each with microscopes, microsurgical instruments, and audiovisual technology.

The former Temporal Bone Laboratory was used to train about 2,000 physicians from around the world. Some 500 specialists will train physicians and residents in the new center.