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Published on: 2/6/2008
Last Visited: 2/27/2008
Dr. James Tsai
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The move to Temple Medical and the larger full-time faculty have enabled Tsai to expand the Eye Center's capacity.The new facility has 28 examination rooms, compared to 18 in the previous space, and patient visits have increased slightly over the past year, to 20,000 annually."We hope to increase patient volume dramatically over the next several years," says Tsai.
In addition to the Temple facility, the faculty sees patients at a hospital-based eye clinic that is moving from the Boardman Building to Dana 2.Faculty members teach at the Temple Street practice, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, and at the Hill Health Center on Columbus Avenue, where they provide affordable care for disadvantaged patients.The department has moved its basic science research operations--which have produced major recent findings, including the identification of genes for macular degeneration--to newly renovated space at 300 George Street.
Patients have followed Tsai to New Haven from his old practice in New York City (a glaucoma specialist, he was on faculty at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons before coming to Yale), and Tsai envisions more patients coming from out of state as the reputation of the center grows.