Images Magazine Spring 2013 - Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

To schedulean appointmentwith a BascomPalmer physician,please call1-888-845-0002Nasser Al-Rashid Orbital Vision Research Center renderingBascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naplesmindset for multidisciplinary innovationand collaboration by removing barriers andpromoting interactions among investigatorsfrom different disciplines.“We are determined to provide the scientificknowledge that today’s physicians need, butalso to ingrain in our students the life skillsthat will enable them to become well-rounded,empathetic physicians,” said David T. Tse, M.D.,professor of ophthalmology and the Dr. NassarAl-Rashid Chair in Ophthalmic Plastic, OrbitalSurgery and Oncology.Expansion underway forFlorida’s West CoastFurther growth is planned for the west coastwhere the purchase of 1.5 acres at thenortheast corner of U.S. 41 and Park ShoreBoulevard in North Naples will allow us toconstruct a new, freestanding, treatmentand surgery center that also includes facilitiesfor research and post-graduate training.Since 2004, Bascom Palmer Eye Institutehas been serving the Gulf Coast from a leased3,000-square-foot space at NCH Medical Plaza indowntown Naples which will remain open duringthe construction of the new center. Patient visitshave more than quadrupled since the Naplescenter opened.“Our expanded facility will encompass morethan 20,000 square feet,” said Stephen G.Schwartz, M.D., M.B.A., medical director ofBascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naples, whichalready employs three full-time physicians andseven physicians who travel from Bascom Palmerin Miami to see patients monthly.As Collier County Commission Chairman FredCoyle stated to The Naples Daily News, BascomPalmer “will attract a lot of attention here.”31