title: The Vision Van, a mobile eye clinic, aids relief efforts in tsunami-stricken areas.
abstract: In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, our group at Keio       University worked diligently to bring the Vision Van, a mobile eye clinic, from Miami,       Florida, to disaster areas where medicines, eyeglasses, and indeed all other ophthalmological       supplies and services, were nonexistent, thereby assisting many tsunami survivors suffering       from eye problems. This act was encouraging not only to the patients and those working in the       disaster-hit areas but also to ophthalmologists who wanted to use their medical specialty to       assist those in need.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo,           Japan.
authors.forename: Catherine Ross
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Kenya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yuki
authors.forename: Atsuro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dogru
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koto
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsubota
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D007564:Japan; D008952:Mobile Health Units / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009907:Optometry; D012066:Relief Work; D057192:Tsunamis