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- January 31, 2012
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Donor Families Honored at CNYETB-Syracuse Crunch Drop the Puck Ceremony
The families of organ and tissue donors Kelly Kline and Robby Somerville were honored in front of 6,352 Syracuse Crunch hockey fans Saturday, January 27, 2012, at the annual CNYETB- Syracuse Crunch ‘Drop the Puck’ donation awareness night.
read more > - December 19, 2011
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CNYETB 2011-2012 Affiliation with Syracuse CRUNCH Underway
The Central New York Eye and Tissue Bank’s (CNYETB) 2011-2012 annual sponsorship of and affiliation with the Syracuse CRUNCH hockey team took flight Saturday, December 17, 2011 at the CRUNCH’s home game against the Adirondack Phantoms and will continue throughout the team’s 2011-2012 season.
read more > - December 7, 2011
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CNYETB Exhibits at 62nd Annual SUNY Upstate Medical University Ophthalmology Post-Graduate Review Course Conference
The Central New York Eye and Tissue Bank joined 18 other international vendors (including Abbott Medical Optics, Bausch and Lomb, Genzyme, and Walman Instrument Group) as a primary exhibitor at the 62nd annual SUNY Upstate Medical University Ophthalmology Post-Graduate conference, held again at the Onondaga Convention Center in downtown Syracuse, N.Y.
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Upcoming Events
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Donate Life Table at the Syracuse Crunch
Friday, February 24, 2012
CNYETB and the Syracuse CRUNCH hockey team are once again joining forces to promote the value of organ, eye, and tissue donation at home games throughout the 2011-2012 season. If you are interested in volunteering at our table please contact Jessica Duffy @ jduffy@unyts.org or 315-476-0199 ext 3865.
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Donate Life Table at the Syracuse Crunch
Friday, March 16, 2012
CNYETB and the Syracuse CRUNCH hockey team are once again joining forces to promote the value of organ, eye, and tissue donation at home games throughout the 2011-2012 season. If you are interested in volunteering at our table please contact Jessica Duffy @ jduffy@unyts.org or 315-476-0199 ext 3865.
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Located in downtown Syracuse, NY, the Eye Bank of Central New York began providing eye tissue donation and recovery services in Central New York in 1955. In December 2001, the Eye Bank became a division of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Upstate New York Transplant Services (UNYTS), among the leading organ, eye, and tissue procurement organizations in the United States and just one of eight centers nationwide that houses laboratory and procurement services in one setting. With the addition of Community Blood Services, UNYTS became the first organization of its kind to provide procurement, community blood banking, and laboratory services via one location.
In 2005, the Eye Bank of Central New York became licensed to provide eye and tissue (musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, skin) donation and recovery services for transplant and research and updated its name to the Central New York Eye and Tissue Bank (CNYETB). Our organization’s comprehensive donation services continue to determine suitability for donation, work with pertinent parties in obtaining consent for donation, and coordinate an extensive donor family support service following donation.
Throughout its history and currently, CNYETB has remained steadfast in fulfilling its mission of saving and enhancing lives through eye and tissue donation while maintaining respect for those who give the Gift of Life. CNYETB is committed to educating its constituencies and the CNY population about transplantation and how vital it is to reclaiming and improving lives.