{"id":5656,"date":"2020-01-13T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2020-01-13T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:33:54","slug":"orbis-flying-eye-hospital-to-make-inaugural-landing-at-sun-n-fun-aerospace-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/01\/13\/orbis-flying-eye-hospital-to-make-inaugural-landing-at-sun-n-fun-aerospace-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbis Flying Eye Hospital to Make Inaugural Landing At SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world\u2019s only flying ophthalmic teaching hospital makes\nits inaugural landing in Lakeland, FL at the 46th annual SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo<\/a> taking place\nMarch 31st \u2013 April 5th, 2020. Orbis International\u2019s Flying Eye Hospital<\/a> is an MD-10\naircraft that travels the world providing first-rate surgical services to those\nin need as well as ophthalmology training, presentations, and live surgical\ndemonstrations to eye care professionals in low- and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital<\/a> is a state-of-the-art\nmedical teaching facility complete with an operating room, classroom and\nrecovery room. This third-generation Flying Eye Hospital allows world-leading\nmedical volunteers to travel far and wide sharing their knowledge with and\ndeveloping the skills of hard-to-reach communities that need it most. Orbis\u2019s\ntelemedicine platform, Cybersight<\/a>, expands its reach even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSUN \u2018n FUN is honored that Orbis has chosen our event to\nshowcase its adaption of medical technology with aviation. To inspire\nindividuals to pursue the limitless aerospace career options that are in high\ndemand today is the mission of the SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo,<\/a> the premiere fundraising\nevent for the Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE)<\/a>. Having this aircraft\nonsite and accessible throughout our event to the general public is a unique\nopportunity and one that will be showcased as part of our STEM-focused\nactivities\u201d, says John \u201cLites\u201d Leenhouts, President and CEO of ACE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE)<\/a> and Orbis<\/a> share a core belief that positive actions taken\ntoday impact the future. ACE\u2019s aerospace education programs and scholarships\nare addressing the ever-increasing demand for aerospace professionals. Orbis is\naddressing avoidable blindness and visual impairment. One third of the world\u2019s\npopulation has a vision impairment or blindness, and in nearly half of these\ncases, the condition could be prevented or treated, but a lack of access to\nquality eye care stands in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled that attendees at SUN \u2018n FUN<\/a> will have the opportunity to see our\none-of-a-kind Flying Eye Hospital and learn about its role in our mission to\nend avoidable blindness around the world,\u201d said Bob Ranck, President and CEO\nof Orbis International. <\/a>\u201cBy bringing together aviation\nand ophthalmology, Orbis has been training eye care teams in low- and\nmiddle-income countries to save and restore sight in their communities for\nnearly four decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 46th annual SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo<\/a>is the world\u2019s 2nd-largest event of its kind. The\nFly-In activities include daily airshows, two night airshows, a tradeshow,\ncareer fair, workshops, forums, and many family activities. Attendance reached\na new record last year of over 225,000 from 80 countries over a 6-day period.\nThe \u201cExperience Flight in 2020\u201d theme will highlight over 60 airshow\nperformers, hundreds of static displays, plus signature flight demonstrations\nby the USAF Thunderbirds<\/a> and the F-35 Lightning II Demo Team<\/a>. Other highlights include\nthe 75th Anniversary of the Pitts aircraft, commemoration of the 75th anniversary\nof the ending of WWII, a drone show, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world\u2019s only flying ophthalmic teaching hospital makes its inaugural landing in Lakeland, FL at the 46th annual SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo taking place March 31st \u2013 April 5th, 2020. Orbis International\u2019s Flying… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}