The Office of Global Surgery and Health recently coordinated the second faculty visit to Haiti State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince to work with the residency program there. Roberto Pineda II, MD, and Shizuo Mukai, MD, returned after their initial faculty visit in June 2015. The focus of this visit was on resident education, with a particular focus on combining ophthalmology fundamentals with modern innovation. Dr. Pineda trained residents in corneal transplantation with cornea tissue generously donated by the Lions Eye Institute (Tampa). Dr. Mukai showed residents how to use smartphone-based retinal photography in the absence of expensive equipment.
Fresh from the operating room, recent Ophthalmology resident graduate Dr. Judlande Cinalien with Dr. Roberto Pineda.
Dr. Shizuo Mukai (far right) works with HUEH ophthalmology residents to harness their smartphones for taking diagnostic quality retinal images.
Five years after receiving life saving treatment for retinoblastoma in Boston, Widerson Mompremier is reunited with his surgeon, Dr. Shizuo Mukai, for follow-up.
