Laser Locators to Host Round Table with Dr. James Wynne, Inventor of the Excimer Laser Which has Improved the Vision of More than 25 Million People World-Wide

Laser Locators, a world-wide leader selling ophthalmic lasers and diagnostic equipment, is pleased to announce that Dr. James Wynne will visit their corporate headquarters on Wednesday, May 27th to lead a round table discussion on his latest endeavor called “Smart Scalpel.” This is a procedure using excimer lasers to debride necrotic lesions of skin, including burn eschar, without causing collateral damage. It is much less painful that procedures used today for burn wounds.

Dr. Wynne is a senior member of the staff of IBM Research Headquarters and manages the T. J. Watson Research Center's outreach to local schools. He was raised in New York, earned a B. A. in physics in 1964 and a Ph. D. in applied physics in 1969 from Harvard University. Dr. Wynne and two IBM colleagues discovered the excimer laser surgery in 1981, which laid the foundation for the development of techniques for changing the shape of the cornea, thus surgically correcting common vision abnormalities of myopia, astigmatism and hyperopia. The techniques commonly used by many ophthalmologists are LASIK and PRK which are practiced around the world and as a results have improved the vision of more than 25 million people.

Dr. Wynne has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, won the R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and awarded the Rank Prize for Opto-Electronics in 2010. He is the author of numerous articles and scientific journals and the holder of many patents, including several in laser dentistry and laser dermatology, and has received numerous Outstanding Innovation Awards throughout his career at IBM.

Laser Locators, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is a world-wide leader partnering with ophthalmologists to buy and sell new or refurbished ophthalmic lasers and diagnostic equipment. For more information on the wide array of products available, go to www.laserlocators.com. To schedule a tour of our new 12,000 square foot state-of- the-art corporate headquarters, please call 813-855-0343 or 1-877-924-2020.

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