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Naming donors for the BPEI at Naples Building Campaign: From Left: Mr. & Mrs. Andy Cummins, Dr. Stephen G. Schwartz, Medical Director, BPEI at Naples, Dr. & Mrs.
Beauchamp, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lewis, Mrs. R. Gozon, Mrs. Colleen Murphy & Paul Skapura, Mr. & Mrs. G. McDonough, Dr. Eduardo C. Alfonso, Director & Chairman BPEI,

Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Senior VP Medical Affairs & Dean UM Miller School of Medicine.

BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE

“Hard Hat Tour” and reception
M ore than 250 friends and supporters of Bascom
Palmer Eye Institute attended a “Hard Hat Tour” When the new center opens, it will provide more than six times the
and reception at Bascom Palmer’s new eye center current amount of clinical space for the treatment of virtually all
under construction on Tamiami Trail in Naples on eye diseases, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts,
Thursday, March 19, 2015. and pediatric eye disorders.The additional space will allow Bascom
Palmer to expand the number of clinical research trials offered to
Wearing hard hats through the construction site, people walked patients. On-site surgery will also be available in an ambulatory
through what will be a $25 million, 20,000-square-foot, state-of- surgery center that will open on the second floor.
the-art eye care center. Located at the intersection of US-41 and
Cypress Woods Drive, across the street from Park Shore Drive, the “In addition to being ranked the #1 eye hospital in the nation for
two-story eye center will open in June, 2015. the past 11 years by U.S. News & World Report, Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute is also known for its exceptional vision research and
Ten years ago, Bascom Palmer opened the only university-based its outstanding medical education,” said Pascal Goldschmidt,
eye care center in Southwest Florida—a leased, 3,000 square foot M.D., senior vice president for medical affairs and dean of the
office located in Naples Community Hospital’s NCH Medical University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “Many of the
Plaza. Opened primarily to diagnose and treat retinal and macular world’s advances in ophthalmology have taken place at Bascom
diseases, the practice has grown considerably in size and scope. Palmer. And, more than 37 graduates of Bascom Palmer’s training
programs have become ophthalmology department chairmen of
medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout the world.”

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