University Hospital of Brooklyn
Local director, Eric Shrier, D.O.
University Hospital of Brooklyn, physically part of the SUNY Downstate campus and home to the Ophthalmology Department’s administrative and research offices, is a 376-bed hospital that provides a full range of primary, preventive and tertiary care services to central Brooklyn. In a recent change in the residency program curriculum, first-year residents are active participants in the ophthalmology outpatient care and surgery programs at University Hospital, allowing earlier opportunities for surgical exposure.
Since 1996, University Hospital has benefited from a wide range of clinical and administrative area renovations, including modernization of outpatient facilities that began in 1998 and were completed in spring 1999. The state-of-the-art equipment added has made University Hospital outstanding among facilities in Brooklyn—with physicians practicing there now capable of performing an exhaustive range of therapeutic testing. Improvements to the hospital’s main operating rooms allowed the number of ophthalmic procedures conducted there to grow from an average of five cases yearly to 500 procedures performed in 1999.
Patients treated in the outpatient clinic facilities of University Hospital’s Suite J rose from 3,349 visits yearly to 8,336 visits in 1998, an increase of 148 percent.
