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MEDIA ADVISORY

DEAN McGEE EYE INSTITUTE DEDICATES $46 MILLION WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH AND CLINICAL FACILITY
OKLAHOMA CITY Officials from the Dean McGee Eye Institute today announced the dedication of the Institutes new $46 million, five-story, 78,000-square-foot, world-class research and clinical facility. The new building, which adjoins the existing original facility built in 1975, doubles the space for research laboratories, expands clinical capacity by 40 percent, and consolidates all of the clinical care, vision research, teaching, and administrative functions into one location. Dedication ceremonies for the new facility are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, September 30 in the Dean McGee Eye Institutes new Inasmuch Foundation Atrium. Guest speakers for the event include Dr. Paul Sieving, Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health; Dr. David Parke II, Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and previously President and CEO of the Dean McGee Eye Institute; Dr. M. Dewayne Andrews, Senior Vice President and Provost of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Executive Dean of the OU College of Medicine; and the Honorable James Lankford, Congressman from Oklahomas Fifth Congressional District. When: Media Building Tours 1:30 pm Event Begins 2pm Friday, September 30, 2011 Where: Dean McGee Eye Institute Atrium 608 Stanton L. Young Blvd. Oklahoma City Who: Dr. Gregory Skuta CEO/President Dean McGee Eye Institute Congressman James Lankford Dr. Paul Sieving National Eye Institute Dr. David Parke II American Academy of Ophthalmology Dr. M. Dewayne Andrews Provost University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Visuals: Media Tour of Facility Clinical Research Operations Raw Video Available Contact: Jane Braden (jane@goodengroup.com/405.818.1905)

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