WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Miracles In Sight (MIS), a nonprofit eye bank that recovers, processes and distributes ocular tissue, announced today that it has expanded its reach with a new partnership. Lone Star Lions Eye Bank based in Manor, Texas, has joined the MIS family. The agreement was effective Aug. 3, 2020. (more…)
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Update: MIS Face Shield Project Gets a Boost from a 10-Year-Old
A few weeks ago, we posted an article about how the Miracles In Sight team had started to use the organization’s 3D printers to create face shields for health care workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the project has grown significantly, in part, due to the efforts of a 10-year-old boy, his dad, and a remarkable birthday present. (more…)
MIS Using 3D Printing to Help Shield Health Care Workers
At Miracles In Sight (MIS), we are always working, innovating and collaborating to improve the quality of care and services in our industry. However, with elective corneal tissue transplants on hold, we’re also applying that same innovative, collaborative spirit to helping our fellow health care professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)
Miracles in Sight Hosts Latin American Surgeons for Wet Lab
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Miracles In Sight (MIS) hosted 22 surgeons from Latin America at its eye bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The surgeons were part of the first-ever International Duke-Latin America Workshop held April 1 – 2 and sponsored by Mexico-based Sophia Pharmaceutical Labs. Surgeons representing 11 Latin American countries participated in a wet lab and gained valuable hands-on experience working with DMEK, DSAEK and PKP surgical techniques. (more…)
Miracles In Sight Seeks to Expand Adoption of Innovative Surgery with Prepared DMEK Grafts
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Across the world, Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) is becoming the standard of care for endothelial dysfunction. Miracles In Sight (MIS), a nonprofit eye bank that recovers, processes and distributes ocular tissue, is helping reduce the learning curve for this new surgical technique by offering traditional, pre-loaded and free-floating DMEK grafts. (more…)
Miracles In Sight Contributes Corneal Tissue to Help Train Surgeons in Vietnam
(WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.) — Miracles In Sight (MIS), a nonprofit eye bank that recovers, processes and distributes ocular tissue, recently supported an effort led by UNC Eye to train ophthalmologists in Vietnam. MIS provided all the corneal tissues for the trip, resulting in 16 Vietnamese patients receiving the gift of sight. (more…)
Miracles In Sight Now Offers Options for DMEK Grafts To Facilitate More Successful Transplantation Procedures
At Miracles In Sight, we collaborate closely with our surgeon partners to determine what we can do to help them better serve their patients, and then we focus on meeting those needs. To achieve that, we are constantly looking for new and innovative techniques that allow surgeons to achieve more positive outcomes. That’s why we are adding both Pre-punched and Preloaded DMEK grafts to our tissue processing services.
Winston-Salem Journal Profiles Dean Vavra
Dean Vavra got confirmation that the Miracles In Sight eye bank was the right place for him in a dream in 2008.
He had just arrived at Miracles In Sight in Winston-Salem from Denver, Colo., where he had worked in various positions at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank.
“I had a dream that I was trying to park a big truck in a snow storm,” said Vavra, the president and chief executive of Miracles In Sight. “I couldn’t get it parked, so I kind of just left it in the street. I went through a gate into what was like a community college setting. I walked into the cafeteria, and my mother was sitting in the cafeteria.”
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Miracles in Sight, Bringing Light to the World for Thousands
Miracles in Sight is the second largest eye bank in the United States and helps train future eye specialists, locally, nationally and internationally. It is open 7 days a week, and 24 hours a day. The organization strives to help the third of the population who experience corneal blindness.