Practice Statement

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. As part of UHealth’s University of Miami Hospitals and Clinics, Bascom Palmer is a not-for profit medical, research and academic institution. The Institute’s full-time faculty of internationally respected physicians and scientists encompass every ophthalmic sub-specialty. Its contribution to ophthalmic knowledge, research, diagnostics and therapies have, in many cases, revolutionized ophthalmologists’ understanding and management of eye diseases and disorders. As a result, US News & World Report has consistently ranked the Institute as the nation’s "Best in Ophthalmology".