Pediatric ophthalmologist Daniel Neely, MD, has been named senior medical advisor of the ORBIS Cyber-Sight telemedicine program, according to a news release.
ORBIS is a nonprofit humanitarian organization devoted to blindness prevention and treatment in developing countries. The Cyber-Sight program provides ophthalmologists in developing countries the opportunity to connect with expert mentors through the Internet. Cyber-Sight was founded in 1998 by Eugene Helveston, MD, and became an official ORBIS program in 2002.
Dr. Neely is professor of ophthalmology and a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine department of ophthalmology at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute.
"It really is an honor to assume the responsibilities of this great program that Dr. Helveston built from the ground up," Dr. Neely said, in the release. "He started this program with emails following a trip to Havana in 1998. It now allows doctors in developing cases to transmit patient information and digital images to volunteer physicians who can help with diagnosis and case management. There have been more than 10,000 electronic consultations and 40,000 individual messages sent since the program began."
Dr. Neely has been an ORBIS volunteer since 2002.
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