AFFILIATED HOSPITALS

Hospital affiliations are described starting on page18 of the Residency training program manual.

Erie County Medical Center

The Erie County Medical Center is the region’s Level I Trauma Center, and is a major teaching hospital for the State University of New York at Buffalo. Founded in 1919 and modernized in the late 1970’s the hospital has approximately 700 beds and multiple off-site clinics. State-of-the-art diagnostic facilities include a high-speed spiral CT-scanner and a 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner.

E.C.M.C. is recognized as a regional health care leader in anterior segment surgery, cornea & external disease, glaucoma, diseases of the retina, and low vision. Because of its designation as the region’s only Level I Trauma Center, the ophthalmology department treats some of the most severely injured patients in New York State. Complex reconstructive surgery is routinely performed by members of the department. The operating room has the most advanced microsurgical equipment for both anterior segment and posterior segment surgery. E.C.M.C. is one of the three primary clinical teaching sites within the Department of Ophthalmology. Over 8,000 new patients are examined at the eye clinic each year. The clinic is equipped with the latest digital imaging equipment for diagnostic retinal imaging. Computerized corneal topography, A and B-scan ultra-sonography, and a full complement of electrophysiologic testing offer the most advanced non-invasive diagnostic services available in the region. Tunable dye, diode, and YAG lasers allow treatment of advanced retinal disorders, glaucoma, and anterior segment diseases. A minor surgical suite within the clinic allows the surgical treatment of minor ophthalmic disorders.

The Veterans Administration Medical Center

As the largest VA medical center in upstate New York, the VAMC is the main tertiary referral site for eight counties in Western New York and Northern Pennsylvania. The ambulatory eye center has been recently expanded and renovated. The operating room facilities have state-of-the-art equipment for anterior and posterior segment surgery. A full complement of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment is available in the clinic including: diagnostic retinal imaging, A and B-scan ultrasonography, argon/krypton and YAG lasers. The VAMC is located directly across the street from SUNY at Buffalo’s Medical School.

Women’s’ and Children’s Hospital

Rated as one the top twenty Children’s Hospitals in North America, this is where the major portion of the resident’s pediatric experience takes place. The Department of. Ophthalmology is the major referral site in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania for infants, children, and adolescents with eye diseases. More than 400 surgical cases are performed each year. While the majority of these surgical cases involve the correction of strabismus, there is bread exposure to other surgical procedures including: congenital cataracts, pediatric glaucoma, correction of congenital ptosis, and pediatric tumors.