Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

September 18, 2005 — New Orleans, LA

Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, expressing gratitude to Dr. Carmen Puliafito for Bascom Palmer’s efforts in New Orleans.	Dr. Carmen Puliafito with patients from the California National Guard who came to the Vision Van in their Humvee.

Patients line up outside the Vision Van waiting their turn to be examined.	Patients waiting to be examined in the state-of-the-art Vision Van, the only ophthalmic facility in all of New Orleans.

Mike Kelley, Dr. Carmen Puliafito with Commodore Sinclair Harris (right) and a medical staff member aboard the USS Iwo Jima, multi-purpose amphibious assault ship.	Ophthalmic technicians Gregory Freelove and Ramon Diaz, Dr. Andrew Moshfeghi and members of the 82nd Airborne Division in front of Bascom Palmer's Vision Van

Dr. Carmen Puliafito meets with flight surgeons aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima