Vision Share Wet Lab Calendar

Please join Vision Share and other surgeons and CEBT technicians as they guide you through the DMEK procedure. At the training you will have hands-on practice with processed and unprocessed tissue. The $499 fee for the wet lab includes practice tissue, instruments and tools to use at the wet lab and dinner. Once you request
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Kitsap Medical Society Newsletter: Vision Share comes to the Northwest

August, 2017 – Events happen fast in eye banking – corneal tissue is donated, procured, evaluated, processed, preserved, matched, delivered, and transplanted in as little as a day. Into this process go years of work – not only by the surgeons carrying out sight-saving procedures, but also by eye banking leaders who have built a
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Strategic Collaboration announced by Two Eye Bank Leaders

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, June 16, 2017 –Vision Share, Inc. and KeraLink International announced their new cooperative tissue sharing agreement designed to significantly increase the availability of transplantable ocular tissue grafts to surgeons worldwide, during the Eye Bank Association of America’s 56th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. “As a first of its kind
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Award Winner Korroch Explains How Eye Banks Have Worked to Ensure Supply Exceeds Demand

April, 20, 2017 – Longtime eye bank executive David Korroch, chief executive officer, Lions Medical Eye Bank, explains how eye banks have worked hard to meet – and even exceed – the demand for donated tissue. Korroch is the winner of this year’s Leonard Heise Award. LISTEN TO PODCAST
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Vision Share Names a New President/CEO

Vision Share would like to announce that a new President/CEO has been selected. With excitement, Vision Share welcomes Philip I. Waitzman MBA, MPH, MA, LSW to lead Vision Share’s industry leading network of eye bank members. Mr. Waitzman brings more than 15 years of relevant healthcare and business leadership experience in the areas of marketing,
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PDEK With a Graft Prepared by an Eye Bank

April, 2017 – In the early days of endothelial transplants, making a graft for Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) required an equipment investment that was too large for most individual surgeons. The grafts also took hours to prepare. Eye banks therefore began preparing the tissue, and these institutions continued to provide prepared tissue as
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Tracing the Path of Donated Corneas

April, 2017 – In the United States, surgeons schedule corneal transplant procedures with the same freedom as cataract surgery, knowing donor tissue is as readily available as any IOL. Of course, surgeons are aware that donor tissue is not manufactured; it arrives at the OR at the end of a meticulous process that begins with
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Vision Share to Distribute Corneal Tissue to Seven African Countries

Vision Share to Distribute Corneal Tissue to Seven African Countries Through Orbit Health Care Services Limited. CHICAGO – April 27, 2017 – Vision Share, the preferred source for eye tissue, eye banking expertise, education and industry leadership, announce today that it has signed a contract with Orbit Health Care Services, Ltd., to distribute corneal tissue
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Work of Eye Bank Network Shows Far-reaching Impact

March 1, 2017 Organization, physicians work together from procurement to placement of corneal tissue. Events happen fast in eye banking — corneal tissue is donated, procured, evaluated, processed, preserved, matched, delivered, and transplanted in as little as a day. Into this process go years of work—not only by the surgeons carrying out sight-saving procedures, but
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Corneal graft tissue now comes prepared, preloaded

Tampa – February 9, 2017 – Eye bank innovation can save surgeons time and financial risk. A recent innovation in transplanting Descemet’s membrane will make the procedure faster and more predictable, possibly affecting thousands of patients, clinicians say. The first-ever pre-Descemet’s endothelial keratoplasty (PDEK) corneal transplant procedure, performed with an eye bank-prepared, preloaded Descemet’s membrane
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