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The Eye Bank at King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital is organizing the first symposium on “Eye Bank Technologies and Cornea Transplantation” from 23-25 Rabi` Al-Akhir 1435 AH corresponding to 23-25 February 2014 AD in the main lecture hall in the hospital’s western building. This symposium is held in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation. With the participation of an American Foundation for Eye Banks and the Eye Bank in North Carolina, USA.
The Executive Director General of King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Dr. Abd Al-Ilah Al-Tuwairqi, explained the importance of the Eye Bank in providing different eye tissues such as the cornea, sclera, and amniotic membrane to patients, as the hospital, since its establishment until the end of December 2013, has implanted 22,502 eye tissues. 17,114 of them were corneal transplants, and a large number of tissues were provided. To be sent to the various medical authorities in the Kingdom, he added that the symposium will discuss many topics, the most important of which are corneal diseases that require transplantation, different corneal transplant techniques, and methods for following up patients who have had corneal transplantation, and there will be two workshops on the sidelines of the symposium, the first on how The establishment and development of eye banks, and the second on techniques of removing, evaluating and preserving corneas. The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties accredited the symposium with (14) teaching hours.
The symposium will be celebrated with the participation of eye bank experts and a specialized professor from outside and inside the Kingdom, where Dr. Paul Debord, professor of frontal and corneal diseases at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and Chairman of the Trustees of the American Sight Life Foundation for Eye Banks, and (Monte Montea), President and CEO of the Foundation will participate. Sight Life, (Dean Favera), Executive Director of the Eye Bank in North Carolina, (Brian Washburn), Director of Training and Development, (Christopher Lanier) from the American Sight Life Foundation, and (Michael Trumper), Director of Clinical Services at Eye Bank in North Carolina, Dr. Ashley Burns, the executive medical director, Dr. Hamad bin Saad Al-Fraikh, head of the eye bank at the hospital and a consultant to the front side and blueberry diseases, and Dr. Sabah Jastiniya, a consultant for the anterior socket and the co-head of the anterior socket department of the hospital, will participate from the hospital. The technical staff of the Eye Bank in the hospital.
Dr. Faisal Shaheen, Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, gives two lectures on organ donation in the Kingdom, as well as the difficulties facing organ donation, and Dr. Abdul Qayyum Saleh, Director of Training and Continuing Education at the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, gives a lecture on the coordination role for organ donation, and the seminar is attended by a number of doctors Nurses, technicians and organ transplant coordinators from different regions of the Kingdom, from the Ministry of Health and government hospitals, as well as private hospitals.
It is noteworthy that the Eye Bank at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital is an international member of the American Organization of Eye Banks, as well as a member of the International Federation of Eye Banks, and a member of the All-American Organization of Eye Banks, whose members are from the countries of the Americas, and it has a close relationship with the European Organization of Eye Banks.
