MUSC Catalyst

March 16, 2012

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Using her

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Dean brings artistic touch to nursing leadership style

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By Dawn Brazell licensing examination in 2011. It Public Relations has doubled student enrollment and gone from having no National anging in Gail Stuart’s office Institutes of Health ranking for research to being ranked 30th in is an elegant art piece of an the country. It also has added to Asian woman.

She laughingly calls it her muse, its online nursing programs.

Though all are welcomed and it brings back fond memories changes, they are not what stand of an overseas trip she took. More out to Stuart. than that it embodies visually her “I’m proudest of the emotional goals of instilling compassion and climate in this college. That’s self-efficacy in the students and probably not what you’d expect a faculty who traverse the halls of MUSC’s College of Nursing where dean to say. I’m proudest of the she has served as dean for the past fact that in the MUSC Excellence survey, 97 to 100 percent of the decade. faculty and the staff said they “I love seeing minds blossom,” made the right choice in coming she said of the journey she witnesses of the students, staff and to work at the College of Nursing.

If you have a healthy emotional faculty in the college. “It’s very much a visual thing where you see climate and respectful culture, you the flower opening up, particularly can truly do great things.”

Many times in nursing. You organizations see people come in do good things, here and they just but they foster bloom. They take in a competitive, information. They cutthroat climate have insights they that is not healthy. never had before.

“Ultimately, that’s They have new ways not going to win the of reaching out to day. We are a team. people.”

The more stars that Stuart, Ph.D., shine, the greater R.N., has seen many the light that’s positive changes. The given out. It’s not college boasts a 92 Dr. Gail Stuart holds about individuals. percent graduation her latest psychiatric It’s about all of us rate for 2010-11 nursing textbook. and a 99 percent See Muse, page 8

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Dr. Gail Stuart draws inspiration from art, such as this image that hangs in her office.

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Inside NIH’s New RegulatIoNs

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The National Institutes of Health will roll out new guidelines regarding financial conflict of interest.

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Dr. Lucian Del Priore takes the helm of MUSC’s Storm Eye Institute.

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Epic: Electronic Medical Record changes what’s possible B

ob Warren, M.D., Ph.D., serves as chief medical information officer (CMIO) and a professor of pediatric rheumatology for MUSC. Warren is a leader in the planning and implementation of Epic, the new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system at MUSC. He has experience with the Epic product Warren stemming from his position as CMIO at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

Epic launches at MUSC in five pilot clinics March 22 and the institution’s remaining clinics go live May 17.

The Catalyst recently sat down with Warren and he shared some of the system’s benefits and ways the new EMR will help facilitate MUSC’s mission of Changing What’s Possible in health care.

What is Epic?

It is a user-friendly health information system, chosen by MUSC for implementation in the clinics in December 2010; we’ve been getting ready for go-live ever since. The ambulatory EMR system will improve, transform and advance the way MUSC delivers patient care. Epic provides an easy, streamlined system integrating the clinical coordination of inpatient and outpatient information, communications, billing, pharmacy services and other functions, ensuring the delivery of the highest quality and safest patient care. It also provides an online, patient-accessed portal called MyChart, which empowers patients and makes it easy for them to be active participants in their own health care and those for whom they are entrusted to care.

Who will use the new system?

More than 4,000 MUSC clinicians including nurses, physicians, business managers, administrative staff,

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schedulers and documentation staff will receive training and support enabling them to be proficient users.

Epic is widely regarded as the industry-leading EMR now in use or being implemented at more than 260 nationally-known academic medical centers and health care systems. Those include Duke University Medical Center, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Chicago hospitals and the Kaiser Permanente system. It is the premier electronic medical record system on the market today among academic medical centers.

What are some of its features?

The new EMR benefits both caregivers and patients.

Within clinics, it will simplify how we gather, share and manage patient care and billing information; it will streamline our communication with our MUSC colleagues, and also community providers. It will greatly improve and speed our management of prescriptions.

For patients, one of the most exciting features of the EMR is a patient-accessible secure Internet portal called MyChart, which allows patients and those who care for them, to gain access to and review medical records, communicate online with caregivers, schedule and view appointments and even order medication refills.

Patients can feel secure with password-protected access and an encrypted connection. Tech-savvy users also will really enjoy the mobile apps available for MyChart.

Users will be able to link to their family’s accounts. It’s very easy to sign up, but there will be support via email or phone for patients who need help getting registered.

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For information on MyChart, users may call 792-3111 or email mychart@muschealth.com.

How will staff be trained?

Epic implementation team leaders hired about 70 credentialed trainers to teach and train more than 2,500 users. Trainers completed a rigorous five-week program preparing them to teach Epic system modules – and they are awesome teachers. Meanwhile, all MUSC Epic users have mandatory training to complete, and more than that, they need to be thoughtful about how Epic enables best practices in their clinic or office.

Classroom training for pilot clinic users is under way.

Other clinical users should sign up as soon as possible for classroom training between April 9 and May 5.

Users can register for training using self-enroll in CATTS at http://www.musc.edu/catts.

Where will training take place?

Classroom training is happening at several locations including university hospital, Clinical Sciences Building, Harborview Office Tower, 135 Cannon Street, and Cannon Park Place, Charleston Memorial Hospital and off campus sites including Lowcountry Graduate Center (North Charleston) and Northbridge Executive Park (West Ashley).

How is Epic supported financially?

The Medical University Hospital Authority, MUSC Physicians and the MUSC Office of the CIO contributed to the system fund to provide support, maintain software and manage information flow. The EMR also is supported by meaningful-use funding from government stimulus funds, made available to hospitals and health care organizations committed to upgrading and investing in high-tech systems supporting electronic health record initiatives.

For information about the Epic Project and training, visit http://epic.musc.edu or call 792-3742.

New license plate on sale through Alumni Affairs The new MUSC license plate, which is $70 per plate for the first 100, may be purchased from the Office of Alumni Affairs.

An application must be completed for each plate (if two plates are requested for two cars, each plate must have an application with two checks). To request an application, contact the Office of Alumni Affairs at 792-7979 or visit http://academicdepartments.

musc.edu/alumni/license_plate.htm.

The application form and check (made payable to SCDMV) may be sent to Jeannie Grooms, MUSC Office of Alumni Affairs, 261 Calhoun St., Suite 306, Charleston, S.C., 29425.

After the first 100 plates are sold, the cost will increase to $100 per plate. A donation of $40 per plate will be used for scholarships through the MUSC Office of Alumni Affairs.

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NIH enacts new regulations to increase accountability

By shannon ConDon Office of the VP for Academic Affairs and Provost

New regulations published in the Federal Register last summer concerning financial conflict of interest (FCOI) will go into effect Aug. 24. The regulations are quite extensive and represent a significant change to the preceding regulations set in 1995.

The purpose of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regulations is to protect the objectivity of research. This overreaching goal of protection will be accomplished via a variety of enhanced oversight mechanisms.

Specifically, NIH will require conflict of interest training for all investigators prior to engaging in Public Health Service (PHS) funded research. Institutions will be required to make publicly accessible, via their website, all identified PHS FCOI which will include the name of the investigator, company, nature of the FCOI, value of the FCOI, grant and role on the grant.

In addition the NIH is asking institutions to gather more data to report to the NIH, and the frequency of reporting has increased.

The NIH also is implementing the requirement for

Conflict of Interest information sessions

Two information sessions will be held at noon, March 28 in the Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium and at noon, April 18 “lunch and learn” sponsored by the Success Center in the Ashley River Tower auditorium.

For information on the sessions, email condonsf@musc.edu. retrospective reviews in cases of non-compliance.

It is important to understand that conflicts naturally arise in many different business environments. The environment of academic medicine and health care have transformed significantly during the past decade.

Health care providers and scientists are making advancements in the field of medicine and human health at a record pace. Many of the successes achieved in health care outcomes are the result of public institutions collaborating with private industry. The relationships that exist between government, academia and industry are seen as essential, not only today but in the future, to developing entrepreneurial and innovative approaches to delivering the highest quality health care.

As MUSC moves forward with fully executing the 2010-2015 strategic plan in line with its campaign branding of “Changing What’s Possible,” it is recognized that the relationships between public institutions and private companies can sometimes be complex. The COI Office is partnering with researchers, educators, administrators and patient care providers to promote an environment of quality and integrity in which to advance biomedical discoveries and clinical care. Increased transparency and accountably strengthens the commitment to the students being educated, the patients being served and the public who instills its trust in the institution.

Conflicts of interest, if properly identified, can be managed so as not to compromise the integrity of the institution or impede its mission. To this end, MUSC will conduct its annual COI disclosure, which is scheduled to take place in April. The disclosure process is the initial step in understanding relationships that exist between employees of MUSC and outside companies, and the nature of these relationships.

For information about conflict of interest or changes to the NIH regulations visit http://www.musc.edu/coi or email condonsf@musc.edu.

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Director’s expertise guides new era of vision care

By CinDy aBole Public Relations

World renowned retinal physician, surgeon, teacher and scientist Lucian V. Del Priore, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed director of MUSC’s Albert Florens Storm Eye Institute (SEI) and Pierre G. Jenkins Professor and chairman of ophthalmology.

He joins the MUSC faculty after serving as professor of ophthalmology and the first Robert L. Burch III Scholar in Retinal Research at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

Del Priore joined MUSC last October following a national search of more than 30 applicants. He succeeds M. Edward Wilson, M.D., who was chairman for 15 years. Since his arrival, he has focused on sharing his clinical expertise, vision research, teaching and entrepreneurial successes to meet SEI’s missions for teaching, service and research.

According to Etta Pisano, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the College of Medicine, Del Priore is committed to MUSC’s mission. “We were thrilled to recruit Lucian as chair of ophthalmology and director of SEI. He has had a significant positive impact on the department since his arrival and is clearly committed to its continued growth and development across all of our missions.”

Dave Wallace, SEI board of directors chairman, was involved with Del Priore’s recruitment. “We found that Dr. Del Priore possessed a good, overall vision for the program. He had high energy and passion and possessed a focus on building relationships and collaboration. He met the right criteria for serving as director, leader salesperson and advocate for SEI.” He has come a long way from his days growing up in New York City as a curious and talented physics graduate student at Cornell University. Del Priore earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1975. His interest in medicine came from a fascination with the body’s visual system and how light is converted by chemical signals in the eye. Following medical school, he returned to Cornell to complete his doctorate in physics.

“What interested me as a physicist is that the eye is a delicate, fascinating and complex organ.

Ophthalmology is a fabulous field,” he said.

Del Priore relishes his role as teacher and mentor and is guiding and instructing medical students, ophthalmology interns and residents, vitreoretinal fellows and scientists. After all, he taught physics to undergrads while at Cornell and later guided residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Wilmer Eye Institute and at other institutions. He’d like to enhance SEI’s highly competitive residency training program, which hosts four residency slots in ophthalmology. Working

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Dr. Lucian Del Priore examines a patient and is joined by SEI ophthalmology residents Drs. Tyson Ward, left to right, Beth Richter and Jennifer Davidson. For information about SEI, visit http:// www.muschealth.com/eyes/index.htm.

Del Priore leads NIH-funded research, advanced discoveries Storm Eye Institute (SEI) Director Lucian Del Priore, M.D., Ph.D., will lead the strategic expansion of the institute’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)funded research programs to cure eye diseases and disorders. SEI is home to South Carolina’s largest research faculty in ophthalmology and is among the country’s top 20 eye research institutes. It also is recognized for NIH research grant productivity and funding ($3.8 million in fiscal year 2011). As the only Level 1 eye trauma service in the state, SEI supports a variety of ophthalmic care. Areas of vision research include glaucoma, pediatric ophthalmology, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal disorders and diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetic eye disease that eventually results in vision loss has no known cure.

A specialist in retinal disease, glaucoma and vitreoretinal surgery, Del Priore has developed surgical techniques for improving the wet form of AMD, which accounts for about 90 percent of all blindness caused by this disease. He and his team are working on improving treatments to control the leaking of blood vessels under the retina. The team is exploring solutions that replace the abnormal retinal pigment epithelial tissue layer using newly transplanted cells that can adhere to the eye’s sub-

retinal tissue layer known as Bruch’s membrane.

Del Priore, who holds several patents, is among five ophthalmic specialists across the country who are testing a retinal implant to restore limited sight to RP patients. Del Priore has tested an implant, which is part of the Argus II Retinal Stimulation System produced by Second Sight Medical Products.

The device features a small camera, electrodes and a module to stimulate light processing cells and send signals to the brain via the optic nerve. In fall 2009, Del Priore and his team successfully implanted this artificial retina device in a 50-year-old New York patient who lost her sight from the disease at age 13.

Already approved by the European drug authority for implantation, the team is awaiting approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

Del Priore’s research team is funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness and other organizations.

Del Priore also is recruiting for a new SEI vice chairman of research, a post formerly occupied by Craig E. Crosson, Ph.D., who is now senior associate dean for research in the College of Medicine. Rosalie K. Crouch, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Ophthalmology, currently serves as interim research director.

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Women reflect campus leadership

By CinDy aBole Public Relations

Students Carol Brown, right, Meg Croom, center, and Wenjun He are honored as part of Women’s History Month.

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According to Burnham, Brown and Croom are the embodiment of ideal students and medical professionals.

“Both Carol and Meg have led and been proactively involved with SGA and numerous student chapters of national pharmacy organizations. Additionally, these ladies have participated in extracurricular and philanthropic activities on MUSC’s campus and within the Lowcountry community. They have made a significant impact across campus in a short time.”

He’s presence on MUSC’s campus the last four years has been exhilarating for her and the several dozen international students at MUSC. An engineer and technical specialist, He moved to Charleston in August 2008 and works in the lab of Hai Yao, Ph.D., assistant professor of craniofacial biology in the James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine and the Clemson-MUSC Bioengineering Program.

Upon her arrival, He was inspired to be an active and engaging presence with campuswide activities and channeled that through MUSC’s ISA and SGA. A newlywed (she married Pengfei Li, an exchange student who previously worked in the Department of Neurosciences/Neuroscience Research), He worked closely with ISA’s director and friend, Rebeca Mueller.

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To look at them, MUSC students Carol Brown, Meg Croom and Wenjun He appear as typical students. In reality, the trio is the epitome of today’s modern women leaders gracing MUSC’s campus.

Characterized as enterprising, organized, energetic doers and achievers, all three have accomplished things as part of a group and independently following their own paths.

Brown and Croom, fourth-year students in the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, have been involved with MUSC Student Government Association (SGA) leadership and activities. He, originally from Luoyang, China (Henan Province), is a doctoral student in the Clemson University and MUSC Joint Bioengineering Program housed in the College of Graduate Studies.

She previously served as an International Student Association (ISA) representative with SGA and ISA’s immediate past president.

When the time came for Brown, who is current SGA president, to set the group’s agenda for the 2011-2012 academic year, her decision was clear: Move forward in approving MUSC as a tobacco-free campus.

The idea and proposal had been a priority for Brown’s predecessors, SGA presidents Sheldon Bates and Tyler Pierce. Bates prepared and distributed petitions signed by students and communicated students’ concern for a tobacco-free campus with leadership.

“I’m just glad to have been part of that initial planning with fellow students, faculty and others who shared the same vision for students in fostering healthy behaviors and creating a healthy environment for all.

This proposal was student-driven from the beginning,” Brown said.

Brown formerly presented the proposal to members of MUSC’s board of trustees at the group’s Aug. 12 meeting. After much discussion and debate, the board approved and passed a resolution in its support.

Willette Burnham, Ph.D., director of Student Diversity, works with students through SGA and other student activities, applauded Brown, SGA representatives and the MUSC study body in this achievement.

“This was the first example that I’ve seen where SGA served as a resounding voice for the students. It was truly uniting and passionate in the student’s cause for establishing a smoke-free campus.”

Keeping students informed about the smoking ban and other news while establishing a network for good communications was the job of pharmacy student Meg Croom, who is SGA secretary.

Described as organized, conscientious and a multitasker, Croom assisted the Office of Student Programs in managing student communications. She also helped coordinate the campus’ annual MUSC Clarion

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CHaNgINg wHat’s PossIble

growing to be the best that we can be.”

Her relational style of management that blends the art and science of nursing is one factor that has made Stuart stand out in her role as dean.

She is being recognized as part of the MUSC’s National Women’s History Month program in March celebrating “Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment.”

Stuart has had many offers during her career to move on to other institutions.

She has stayed because her continuity has allowed her to develop good working relationships and gain momentum to effect change. “I’m someone who likes to grow and develop things. I like to see the possibilities. I think MUSC is uniquely positioned to grow.”

Jersey Girl

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Stuart lived in a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator. “I don’t think I ever saw a riding lawn mower. I was a real city girl.

I went to the Village on weekends. I was very much brought up in the New York City environment.”

Not many fields were open to women as she was considering college.

“I have a confession. I type with two fingers because when I was growing up you took typing if you wanted to be a secretary. I knew I wanted a college degree, so I went to Georgetown University, which was a fabulous experience.”

Nursing turned out to be the perfect match for her. She loved the holistic view and ability to interact with patients.

After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Georgetown University, she went on to get her master’s in psychiatric nursing from the University of Maryland and her doctorate in behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Stuart said she realized she was drawn to psychiatric nursing while working in the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital. “What I noticed is that every time someone came in with an overdose or suicide attempt of any kind, the staff always used to triage those to me. I started thinking maybe there was a reason why they don’t

Dr. Gail Stuart just returned from Liberia where she is working with the Atlanta-based Carter Center on an initiative to create a sustainable mental health system. She developed a “train-the-trainer” program for registered nurses to address the area’s dire need for mental health professionals. want to do it, and I liked working with those patients.”

Stuart would go on to make major contributions to psychiatric mental health nursing. She is finishing the 10th edition of the textbook, “Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing,” that has been honored with four Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing and has been translated into six languages.

The book goes beyond the science of nursing to capture the artistry involved as well. Stuart said she carefully chose patient and nurse stories. It also includes the work of batik artist, Mary Edna Fraser.

“What I most enjoy about writing the book is the sense of generativity — of giving back. It’s a legacy. Clearly, it won’t be forever, but it’s been 30 some odd years and there are a lot of people who have been touched by the content. It’s more than just numbers and facts. It really tries to humanize the whole mental health and substance use field. I think people relate to that. People love stories, and it makes it more personal.”

risk Taker Though she now has one grandchild, whom she loves spending time with, Stuart said she has much she wants to accomplish before retiring. She’s excited about the renovation of the college that

will be starting in the fall.

She also likes that three of the six deans at MUSC are female. There was a period when she was the only female dean. “It makes the dialogue more balanced and gives more perspective. It enriches MUSC overall with the kinds of discussions and analysis that can be achieved when you have a mix of people – racial, ethnic, gender – however you want to look at it. Like minds always think the same way, and you go down the same road.”

There’s still work that needs to be done to mentor women in leadership roles. “Women have not yet won the day. There still are challenges. There are a lot of subtle and unexpressed biases.

I don’t think women have been totally unleashed as far as the potential that they can really bring into the workplace and the workforce.”

Her advice to women is to ignore some of the negative images that can surround working women and find creative ways to balance family and career work. There’s an art in learning to be true to oneself, she said.

“Don’t second-guess feelings important to you and let the outside voices override your own voice. Experiment. I think that’s very important. Experiment with childcare arrangements. Experiment with careers. I’ve told people that I’ve had more different jobs without leaving

Charleston since I was here. I was over at psychiatry. I was at the center for health care research. Sometimes certain things work at one point in time and then they don’t work at another. When a window of opportunity opens, go for it. Take the risk.”

Pragmatic to the core, Stuart exudes resiliency.

“You have to adapt and change as your situation changes. This shouldn’t be frightening. It shouldn’t be a bad thing. It should be experimental. I tell my faculty there is no failure here. If we try something that we all thought was a good idea and it doesn’t work out, we are smarter than we were the day before.

It’s like a rule-out diagnosis. I think that’s how women have to feel. I think oftentimes women feel more constrained and held back and less able to take risks.”

She also believes in being proactive.

Stuart said she’s not the type to wring her hands or whine.

“I really don’t like whining at all.

I don’t like worrying about things you can’t change. I don’t find that productive. There are plenty of things to worry about that you can change — concentrate on those. I tend to be optimistic and persevering. If I believe in something, I pursue it. If you close the front door, I’m very likely to go to the back door and see if that’s open.”

The college is on a very positive trajectory, and she wants to continue to see an increase in students and in the research agenda. Her goal is for the college to be one of the best statesupported schools in the country — in the top tier of its peer group. More importantly, she wants its graduates to have mastered the two traits that in her book are essential to success: Compassion and self-efficacy. With those two qualities, they can handle any situation.

“Sometimes I see the work of our students and I think ‘you make me so happy for the future of nursing.’ I know that’s the kind of nurse I want at the bedside, in the community and in the boardroom. It gives you a sense of longevity and a sense of hope in the future. Sure times are tough and sure there are huge challenges ahead, but I am proud that here in the college, we are graduating dedicated women and men whom I would want to be my nurse.”

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woMen Continued from Page Seven

activities to teaching others about the Chinese culture and heritage through the Chinese Students and Scholars Association in various campuswide activities.

“Wenjun is a welcoming, enthusiastic presence on campus. Within a short time, she has accomplished a lot through her leadership, attitude and dedication to helping our international student community feel connected to the institution and the larger Charleston community,” Mueller said.

Burnham can best summarize the accomplishments and potential of all

three women in her own words.

“All three ladies epitomize today’s women student-leaders. They’re compassionate women in leadership and brilliant on their own. They leave MUSC’s campus in a stronger, better light than how they found it. It’s a pleasure to celebrate them and other campus women as part of Women’s History Month.”

Editor’s Note: The article is part of a series featuring MUSC’s National Women’s History Month. The 2012 theme is “Women’s Education — Women’s Empowerment.”

DireCTor Continued from Page Four with SEI’s residency faculty, the department has added a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery to reflect the program’s clinical and research growth.

“This is an opportunity to identify what’s important to each of SEI’s programs and discover how each piece supports its overall mission. It’s also a good time to see if all the pieces of support are present. Here at MUSC, we have a solid ophthalmology program, well-integrated health system with good physical plant support and a beautiful eye institute with ample space for research and clinical programs,” Del Priore said.

As with any new leader, Del Priore’s priority is about growth and recruitment.

In January, the SEI team recruited George Waring IV, M.D., a cornea, cataract, lens and refractive surgeon; Andrew Eiseman, M.D., a former U.S. Navy ocular plastic surgeon; and trained vision scientists and research colleagues, Mark Fields, Ph.D., and Jie Gong, M.D., Ph.D. With an emphasis on providing quality patient care, Del Priore is committed to improving the eye health of South Carolinians and expanding clinical services to all patients. Currently, SEI’s team of 100 faculty, clinicians and staff treat patients at its main location on MUSC’s campus and five SEI locations around the Lowcountry. Providing this level of specialty support at a time of reduced funding, growth of uninsured patients and aging populations will not be easy, but it requires a dedicated commitment, according to Del Priore.

“One of our biggest missions is to provide specialized care for patients

with a wide range of eye diseases. It is important that we provide patients with state-of-the-art research and patient care.

We can’t drop the ball in one or two areas of care across the entire spectrum of eye diseases,” Del Priore said.

Del Priore was born in Italy and grew up in New York City. He earned his medical school degree with distinction in research from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York in 1982.

He completed his residency and fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery and glaucoma research at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

He served on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey prior to joining the faculty at Columbia University Medical Center. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Macula Society, the Retina Society, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and International Society for Eye Research. He has received numerous awards including the Lew R. Wasserman Research to Prevent Blindness Merit Award, several honor awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Retina Specialists and the Vitreous Society and was named among New York’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America.

Del Priore is a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Ophthalmology and other journals and has been published extensively in peer-review literature.

He serves on several scientific advisory boards and lectures worldwide on the treatment of retinal diseases.

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