New Partnership enhances eye care for Ebola survivors in Liberia
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) have joined forces with partners in Liberia to strengthen medical education and increase access to ophthalmology care in the aftermath of the 2014-2015 West African Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people.
Program principal investigators are Bonnie Miller, MD, senior associate dean for Health Sciences Education at VUSM and Executive Vice President for Educational Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and Troy Moon, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases.