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Treasure Coast Medical Report
NEW VISION EYE CENTER
Dr. Sarah Khodadadeh, a fellowship trained glaucoma surgeon, conducts an eye exam at the Glaucoma Institute in Vero Beach.
Vero Beach center offers world-class
treatments for glaucoma patients
BY KERRY FIRTH
New Vision Eye Center is putting Vero Beach on the
map with its world-class Glaucoma Institute that
draws patients from far beyond its borders. The doors
of the Glaucoma Institute at New Vision Eye Center opened
in March, showcasing the most advanced equipment and two
new, fellowship trained glaucoma surgeons, Dr. Mohamed
Sayed and Dr. Sarah Khodadadeh.
“Our goal was to build a practice where folks would have
all the ophthalmology subspecialty needs served in one
place,” Dr. Paul Minnotti, founder of New Vision Eye Center,
said. “That goal came to fruition with the addition of Dr.
Sayed and Dr. Khodadadeh, and the subsequent opening of
the new Glaucoma Institute.”
The center had outgrown its 19,000-square-foot facility,
Minnotti explained, so they rented space across the street for
the new Glaucoma Institute. The campus consists of three
buildings. The original building that they began occupying in
2011, a leased building behind it where business billing and
clinical research is done, and the building just east of that one
where the Glaucoma Institute is housed. The institute has its
own personality and identity so it helps people know where
they are going yet remains convenient for all patients in its
location directly across from the Indian River Medical Center.
“The field of ophthalmology is constantly changing and
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