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The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute is located at the corner of West Drive and Michigan Avenue on the IUPUI campus. The facility provides research opportunities for Ophthalmology and clinical services for patients at nearby healthcare facilities including Riley Childrens Hospital and University Hospital.
Lutheran Hospital is a tertiary-care facility serving northeastern Indiana, northwestern Ohio and southern Michigan. Lutheran is the region's only heart and kidney transplant center. In addition, Lutheran Children's Hospital offers pediatric inpatient and intensive care units and the most pediatric subspecialties in the region.
Parks studied under the guidance of Frank D. Costenbader, the first ophthalmologist to dedicate his practice solely to the care of children. [5] At Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., now known as the Children's National Medical Center, they began the first ophthalmology fellowship training program of any subspecialty. [6]
Parkview Health, founded in 1878 as Fort Wayne City Hospital, is a network of 14 community hospitals and nearly 300 physician offices in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. Parkview Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system and the region's largest employer, with more than 16,000 employees. [ 1 ]
Pediatric ophthalmologists are qualified to perform complex eye surgery as well as to manage children's eye problems using glasses and medications. Many ophthalmologists and other physicians refer pediatric patients to a pediatric ophthalmologist for examination and management of ocular problems due to children's unique needs.
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Indiana [2] [3] and features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center. [4] Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the entire Midwest region.
The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary was founded in May 1858 by a 30-year-old physician named Edward Lorenzo Holmes as the Chicago Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. [1] [2] The Infirmary took up just a single room in a frame building at 60 North Clark Street in Chicago, and the first patient arrived before the room was even ready.
Before 1968, vision research at NIH was funded and overseen by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness [2] (now known as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke), which was established in 1950, after President Harry S. Truman signed the Omnibus Medical Research Act. [2]