GIMBEL ONLINE SURGICAL VIDEO LIBRARY

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In September, 2009, we were pleased to welcome Dr. Albena Dardzhikova to the Gimbel Eye Centre as a Research Fellow.  Dr. Albena (as she is known to us) spent the next nine months working in our vast video archives. She was focused on gathering and editing the valuable teaching videos that are added daily to our digital library, making them ready for online sharing.  

For many decades Dr. Gimbel has been known worldwide for teaching, always using video footage of actual surgeries he has performed.  He pioneered the use of this teaching medium. He has received recognition, affirmation and many honors for the value that his innovative techniques and training videos continue to provide for ophthalmic surgeons worldwide. The videos share unique surgical experiences and teach new techniques that he has developed.  

Currently, almost all of Dr. Gimbel’s surgeries are digitally video recorded and saved when they have a particular educational value.  We are committed to making these surgery videos – and others archived in our library – available online, in order to enhance the surgical practices of surgeons worldwide. In a very fundamental way, this project fulfills the mandate of the Foundation – a mandate to share (at no cost to the end-user) the experience and research of Gimbel Eye Centre doctors. Sharing with others ensures that patient care around the world is enhanced.  

Dr. Dardzhikova is an accomplished ophthalmologist who completed two years of clinical fellowship at Gimbel Eye Centre (August 2007 - August 2009.  She is a highly skilled and experienced and cataract surgeon, who understands and embraces the enthusiasm we have for sharing surgical techniques developed at Gimbel Eye Centre.  We were very fortunate to have her join us for a 9-month research fellowship. Her excellent background  and close experience having already worked with Dr. Gimbel was  invaluable for collaborating with us on this project. 

We are very delighted that Dr. Albena has agreed to continue working with us to contribute edited videos to our online libraries.  She is currently (Winter/Spring 2011) in another fellowship program at UBC, living in Vancouver, but with her experience she continues to work, remotely, on editing videos and uploading them.  We are so pleased that this project continues, and regularly get feedback from all over the world about the positive impact of these videos.

We thank all of our "Caring Friends" for making it financially possible to enhance our teaching mission in this way.

Be sure to see our collection of training videos and surgical footage at Gimbel Library on YouTube.  

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