LIVS – A Chronology 1999First successful corneal transplant surgery in a dog with blinding corneal disease. 1998Island Veterinary Referral moves to Plainview and changes name to Long Island Veterinary Specialists providing the Island’s first 24 hour critical care and trauma center equipped with CT and MRI in an 12,000 sq/ft facility. 1998Glaucoma gonioimplant surgery: pioneered the usage of the Ahmed glaucoma shunt in dogs and cats. 1996Long Island’s first Hydrocephalic shunt (to treat hydrocephalus). 1995Long Island’s first limb sparing (to remove cancer by grafting in a donor bone from a bone bank). Page 4 of 5 1 … 3 4 5
