FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com JANUARY 28, 2016 • QUEENS TOP DOCTORS 23 Now’s the Time to Sign Up Make signing up in the Donate Life Registry your New Year’s resolution and you may someday leave the beautiful gift of sight to someone who is blind. There is no cost to be a donor and even people who wear glasses, can donate. According to The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a non-profit organization serving the Greater New York City area, hundreds of men, women and children can be saved from blindness each year with sight-saving cornea transplants made possible with donor eye tissue. And more than 10,000 other New Yorkers who are waiting for life-saving organ and tissue transplants can be helped through organ and tissue donation. Donating your eyes and other organs at death can restore sight and health to persons in need. By signing up in the NYS Donate Life Registry you can make a difference in someone else’s life. To date, there are more than three million individuals registered to become donors in New York’s Registry. Be counted among them in 2016. There are a number of ways New Yorkers can sign up in the Donate Life Registry starting with when you are getting a new or renewed driver’s license either in person at a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office or when completing forms by mail. It’s easy and only takes a minute to sign up. Of course 2016 is a presidential election year and if registering to vote in New York State is also on your resolution list, whether for the first time, or if you have moved since voting last, you will find another opportunity to enroll in the Donate Life Registry. Look for the section to state your wishes to be an eye, organ and tissue donor on the forms provided by the New York State Board of Elections. Lastly, one can visit The Eye-Bank’s web site, www.eyedonation.org, and click on the “Become a Donor” button to download a form. Or, call The Eye-Bank at (212) 742-9000 and ask to be sent an enrollment form in the mail. Whether you sign up when getting a new driver’s license, registering to vote or by going to The Eye-Bank’s web site, your specific wishes about eye, organ and tissue donation will be entered and the New York State Department of Health will send you a letter confirming you are in the State’s Donate Life Registry. “I signed up!” Once you sign up to become a donor, encourage your family and friends to do the same. Join the thousands of friends on Facebook who have posted their decision to donate on their status bars. Or go to www.eyedonation. org and “like” The Eye-Bank on Facebook. Registered donors can share their story with friends and urge others to sign up to give the gift of sight and life. For more information about eye donation and the good that it can do, call The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration (212) 742-9000 or go to www.eyedonation.org. Atlantis Oral Surgery advertorial Dr. Julia Abend began her medical education in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1990. She attended St. Petersburg’s First Medical Institute until 1992 when her family moved to United States. In 1997 Dr. Abend graduated Summa Cum Laude from Hunter College of City University of New York with BA in Biology and proceeded to pursue her doctor of dental surgery (DDS) degree from New York University College of Dentistry, and graduated Summa Cum Laude, in 2002. At New York University, she was elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the National Dental Honor Society. To further specialize in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Abend completed her residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center and has been in private practice since 2006 while maintaining several hospital and teaching appointments. Dr. Abend holds a faculty appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is dually board certifi ed in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dental Anesthesia with membership in numerous professional societies. Dr. Abend is currently on staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Hospital-Queens and Lutheran Medical Center, where she is actively involved in trauma coverage and resident’s education. Dr. Abend’s clinical interests include full-scope oral and maxillofacial surgery, involving maxillofacial trauma, orthognathic surgery, oral pathology, facial reconstruction and osseo integration (implants). Dr. Abend lives in New York City with her husband, Alexander, and two children – Audrey and James. They enjoy traveling, skiing, fencing, opera, and ballet. 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