NY Harbor VA Residency in Ocular Disease / Primary Eye Care

Category:
Primary Care

School Affiliation:
SUNY College of Optometry

Residency Location:
NY Harbor VA Health Care System Brooklyn/St. Albans

VA Medical Center, Optometry (112)
800 Poly Place
Brooklyn, NY 11209
Phone: 718-836-6600 ext 6497
Fax: 718-630-3573

Coordinator:
Dr. Evan Canellos - evan.canellos@med.va.gov
Residency Director:
Dr. Diane T. Adamczyk - dadamczyk@sunyopt.edu

Key Residency Information:

Residency Description:

The goal of this residency program is to enhance the clinical skills of recent graduates with emphasis on delivering primary care optometry within a multi disciplinary environment and treating and managing a host of ocular diseases. There are 3 positions for the program, with equal time spent at each hospital. The St. Albans V.A. Hospital sits on thirty acre campus-like site in Queens, New York, near Kennedy Airport. It is about three miles from the Nassau County border and twenty miles from both the Brooklyn V.A. Medical Center and Manhattan. The Brooklyn V.A. Medical Center is located at the base of the Verazzano Bridge, adjacent to Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The St. Albans V.A. Extended Care Center, a division of the Brooklyn V.A. Medical Center has 225 beds serving as an out-patient clinic, domiciliary and an intermediate and extended care facility. The Brooklyn V.A.M.C. is a 275 bed acute care medical and teaching center. The Optometry section provides primary eye care to inpatients and outpatients at the St. Albans V.A. Extended Care Center and the Brooklyn V.A.M.C.

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