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Education, Health Care
The John A. Moran Eye Center is welcoming Abdulkhaliq M. Barbaar, MSW, MBA, as the inaugural Dumke Endowed Director of Global Outreach, leading a division dedicated to increasing access to sight-saving care in Utah and w...
Health Care, Education
Seventeen people walked into the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah on June 12, 2021, with severe vision loss or blindness from cataracts. By that afternoon, they could see again thanks to Operation Sight Day, an...
Thanks to a University of Utah collaboration, a group of mechanical engineering students developed a portable eye-exam table kit that will allow Moran Eye Center outreach doctors to conduct more comprehensive exams in re...
The Moran Eye Center is among a select group of institutions evaluating a unique simulator-based training system developed by non-profit organization HelpMeSee to help turn the tide of cataract blindness worldwide.
New Moran resident-driven interactive sessions called Training a Complete Ophthalmologist (TACO) focus on non-clinical but essential topics.
The Moran Eye Center has always been committed to the vision that no person with a blinding condition, eye disease, or visual impairment should be without hope, understanding, and treatment. Internally, Moran is equally ...
For years, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Clinical Ophthalmology Resource for Education (CORE) has offered worldwide access to high-quality ophthalmic learning. The educational role of CORE’s free, peer-reviewed curricul...
Research, Education, Health Care
An international collaboration of scientists publishing in Nature Reviews Disease Primers this week advocate for a new way of thinking about and finding treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD)—the developed...
Recognition, Education, Health Care
The University of Utah has honored John A. Moran Eye Center CEO and Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Professor and Chair Randall J Olson, MD, with the rank of Distinguished Professor.
Scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will present their latest work at the upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the world’s largest...
One of Moran’s earliest residents, Jane Durcan, MD, eventually returned as a faculty member specializing in glaucoma—a position she calls a “dream job.” She later moved into private practice in Spokane, Washington. Durca...
The Ophthalmologist has named the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Kathleen B. Digre, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, and Liliana Werner to its 2021 Power List of the Top 100 Women in Ophthalmology.
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s latest Focus annual report is here, featuring a tribute to Alan S. Crandall, MD, who embodied Moran's vision to provide hope, understanding, and treatment.
In 2020, the Moran Eye Center co-hosted the first Global Ophthalmology Symposium to bring together fellowship trainees from across the nation.
The Moran Eye Center is partnering with local service organizations to identify eye care needs in underserved populations across the state.
As the COVID-19 pandemic prompted new concerns for doctors and their patients, Moran’s ophthalmologists found ways to adapt.
Backed by a new five-year, $2 million National Eye Institute Research Project Grant, the lab of Frans Vinberg, PhD, at the John A. Moran Eye Center is seeking a deeper understanding of photoreceptors and how major blindi...
The new Utah Retinal Reading Center at the John A. Moran Eye Center plays a pivotal role in the development of therapies.
A map of retinal disease generated by Moran’s Marclab for Connectomics offers a deeper understanding of a host of neurodegenerative diseases.
Alan S. Crandall, MD, embodied the John A. Moran Eye Center's vision to provide hope, understanding, and treatment.
A collaborative program designed to treat thyroid eye disease (TED) at the University of Utah offers patients access to highly customized treatments—including a delicate endoscopic surgery at the Moran Eye Center now ava...
An oxysterol that accumulates in the eye with age can transform choroidal endothelial cells; interfering with the process might help patients with treatment-resistant age-related macular degeneration.
One of ophthalmology’s most prestigious research societies and other prominent organizations are tapping John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientist Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, for leadership roles in 2021 as her work ...
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division has expanded its donor-funded local care for uninsured and under-insured Utahns to patients with diabetes and other sight-threatening retinal conditions.
The John A. Moran Eye Center welcomes Ryan Coyle, OD, to the Redstone Health Center in Park City.
Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, is investigating how lipids known as VLC-PUFAs could be used to prevent eye disease thanks to a new way to synthesize them for research.
Health Care, Education, Research
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has selected the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah to receive an unrestricted annual grant of $115,000 to support eye research over the next five years.
Researchers including the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, are identifying the scope of the problem as outreach experts like Moran’s Jeff Pettey, MD, work to solve it.
Education, Recognition, Health Care
Each year the American Academy of Ophthalmology brings together physicians from across the country to learn and discuss the latest and greatest in care. The COVDI-19 pandemic prompted the annual event to go online, but 1...
Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, has been named the John A. Moran Eye Center’s inaugural Vice-Chair for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). As a key part of Moran’s senior management team, Werner will lead a range of efforts...
When Manuela Lechuga explains the reason she needs to see well, it’s not about her own desire to remove the cloudy haze that has been stealing her vision, preventing her from driving or cooking safely.
Ophthalmology leaders nationwide have ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah as among the top 12 programs in the nation when it comes to clinical care, research, and education.
John A. Moran Eye Center physicians will restore vision to 12 Utahns in need on Saturday, October 24, by performing free cataract surgery during Moran’s Operation Sight Day.
Moran’s 2020 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar is an accomplished researcher who has already contributed to medical advances using new imaging technology to detect eye diseases earlier ...
Health Care
It is with a heavy heart that John A. Moran Eye Center CEO Randall J Olson, MD, shares the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Alan S. Crandall, on Friday, October 2, 2020, following a sudden illness.
Residency applicants are invited to meet the Moran Eye Center’s education program director, take a virtual tour, and learn more about our nationally ranked program.
New research from a team including scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah provides insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively ...
Moran’s Marclab for Connectomics was the first to complete a map of the circuitry of the retina, or connectome. Now, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab has produced the first pathoconnectome showing how e...
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s global outreach team has conducted vision screenings in high school gyms, in local clinics, and remote homes on the Navajo Nation, but screening potential patients through the windows of mo...
Health Care, Research, Recognition, Education
The National Eye Institute (NEI) has granted John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Leah A. Owen, MD, PhD, a prestigious career development award to support her innovative research into a blinding eye disease affecti...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded John A. Moran Eye Center scientist Bryan W. Jones, PhD, funding as part of an international group of neuroscientists that will explore the connections between neurons, kn...
A software based on artificial intelligence (AI) developed in collaboration with John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientists Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, and Monika Fleckenstein, MD, could assist age-related macula...
Doximity has ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center residency program among the nation’s top 10 programs for a third year running.
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah No. 13 in the nation for providing excellent patient care.
Health Care, Education, Giving
The Dee family has been investing in the Utah health care community for nearly a century, including efforts at the Moran Eye Center to fight age-related macular degeneration. The Dee Foundation also recently funded a new...
At the forefront of LASIK and PRK research, physicians at the John A. Moran Eye Center continue to push the field forward. Their most recent study compared the effectiveness of two painkillers given to patients following...
As ophthalmology residency education programs across the country acknowledge burnout and its consequences, the Moran Eye Center is taking unique steps to address the issues, launching a wellness program for residents to ...
A new, interactive ophthalmology curriculum set to roll out in July at the John A. Moran Eye Center arrives thanks to a unique development process driven by residents.
When Sophia Fang, MD, MS, learned a long-time partner of the John A. Moran Eye Center's Global Outreach Division in Haiti had to shut its doors because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to battle a COVID-1...
Moran’s Global Outreach Division conducts large-scale surgical outreach with partners throughout the world to create sustainable eye care systems. However, Moran’s work goes beyond providing care. Through broad training ...
As Moran Eye Center’s 2019-2020 global outreach fellow, Sophia Fang, MD, created behind-the-scenes tools and practices needed to make sustainable, effective eye care in outreach settings a reality.
Education, Research, Health Care
In the future, a two-minute retina scan could let doctors spot eye diseases—or even the risk to develop them—long before any symptoms appear.
At the John A. Moran Eye Center, your safety is our primary concern. Since mid-March, we have limited patient access to Moran clinics to do our part to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to protect our patients. Now...
Giving, Education, Health Care
The Dr. Ezekiel R. and Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation has given a transformative $1 million gift to support sight-saving outreach work in Utah and around the world by creating the John A. Moran Eye Center Global Outreach D...
The University of Utah School of Medicine Alumni Association has chosen John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Nick Mamalis, MD, to receive its 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award.
While the coronavirus pandemic has temporarily halted routine exams and surgeries, the John A. Moran Eye Center continues to provide essential, urgent treatments for conditions like age-related degeneration—with extra pr...
The John A. Moran Eye Center continues to provide sight-saving outreach care to Utah’s homeless and low-income communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Care, Education, Recognition
The Ophthalmologist magazine has named five John A. Moran Eye Center faculty members among the most influential figures in ophthalmology, placing them on its 2020 Power List.
Continuing work to make eye care more accessible in Tanzania, the John A. Moran Eye Center's Global Outreach Division conducted a second Allied Ophthalmic Training Program mission in February.
Research, Health Care
Groundbreaking new research by John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientists suggests ophthalmologists may want to reconsider treatment approaches for one of the world’s most blinding eye diseases.
Moran Eye Center researchers continue to shed new light on the potential of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) to treat eye disease.
Retinal specialist Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD, an internationally recognized expert on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), has joined the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded $490,000 in grants to support ongoing, innovative vision research at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.
Tamara Gibo’s path to LASIK vision-correction surgery was longer than most. But when she finally met with specialist Amy Lin, MD, at the Moran Eye Center, everything came into focus.
Education, Health Care, Research
Brian C. Stagg, MD, joined the John A. Moran Eye Center in September, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He also performs cataract surgery and has a special interest in geriatric ophthalmology.
Monika Fleckenstein, MD, recently joined the John A. Moran Eye Center, specializing in degenerative retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
It's time for the Moran Eye Center year-end sale!
Research, Health Care, Education
The latest discovery by Moran’s Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, sheds light on potential new treatment approaches for age-related macular degeneration.
Choose from hundreds of designer styles from the world's top brands during the show and sale at the John A. Moran Eye Center's Redstone optical shop in Park City.
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division works to meet the growing need for eye care around the world and among underserved Utahns—from the homeless to resettled refugees.
Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, joined the John A. Moran Eye Center in October 2019. She specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of children and adults with retinal conditions.
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division has been working to create sustainable eye care systems in the developing world for more than 20 years and recently expanded efforts to assist underserved populatio...
Education, Health Care, Recognition
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, as the recipient of its 2020 Mildred Weisenfeld Award.
Outstanding education, research, and clinical care put the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the top 10 programs in the nation, according to the latest Ophthalmology Times survey results.
Research, Education, Recognition, Health Care
The ARCS Foundation Utah generously extended its support to not one but two Moran residents for 2019. Each scholar brings a robust history of research and service to the role.
Recognition, Research, Education, Health Care
John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and his patients at the University of Utah played a key role in the recent discovery of the first genetic cause for a rare eye disease.
Two John A. Moran Eye Center researchers recently won grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to work on the Human Cell Atlas, an international collaboration to map all cells in the human body for better understan...
The John A. Moran Eye Center has expanded its effort to help underserved populations, such as resettled refugees living in Utah, access high-quality eye care.
Physician website Doximity has ranked the ophthalmology residency program at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the nation’s top 10 for a second year running.
Physicians around the country voted the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah one of the nation’s top eye hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 Best Hospitals for Ophthalmology rankings.
Education, Health Care, Research, Recognition
A world-renowned expert in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine (SCTM) will hold a prestigious Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Cha...
The Moran Eye Center, collaborating with Utah Navajo Health System and other local partners, delivers pediatric and adult eye care to those in need in the remote Four Corners region several times a year.
Research, Recognition, Education, Giving, Health Care
The John A. Moran Eye Center recently honored seven of its University of Utah faculty scholars who hold endowed chairs and professorships and the generous donors who made the positions possible.
Research, Recognition, Health Care, Education
Since 1956, the Knights Templar Eye Foundation has supported research and helped launch the careers of clinical and basic researchers focused on the prevention and cure of potentially blinding diseases in infants and chi...
Physicians from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah provided free cataract surgeries to refugees resettled in Utah, the homeless, and low-income, uninsured residents as part of Moran’s Operation Sight ...
With each eye care mission, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division makes progress toward its goal of building sustainable eye care in one of the most remote regions of the world: the Federated States of ...
John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, will receive the 2019 Paul Kayser/Retina Research Foundation Global Award later for her efforts to develop a better treatment for the leading cause of chil...
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s highly regarded academic program combines quality training and rigorous surgical experience.
A new study by researchers from the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine suggests women who experienced hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are at greater risk for a blind...
Choose from hundreds of designer styles from the world's top brands during the show and sale at the John A. Moran Eye Center's optical shop at the University of Utah.
New World Medical, Inc., a privately held ophthalmic company dedicated to developing cutting-edge glaucoma medical devices intended to alleviate the suffering of patients globally, has selected the John A. Moran Eye Cent...
A John A. Moran Eye Center program created one year ago to help refugees resettled in Utah has now assisted more than 300 people, restoring eyesight to allow them to participate fully in the community.
John A. Moran Eye Center physician and researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, has been ranked a distinguished professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah.
Health Care, Recognition, Research, Education
After more than three decades of caring for patients and working to improve eye surgery through research, Nick Mamalis, MD, will become president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery during the grou...
Scientists and physicians from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will present research and lead workshops on a vast array of topics during the upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Research ...
Education, Giving, Health Care
Support the John A. Moran Eye Center during the University of Utah’s first-ever U Giving Day, a 36-hour fundraising effort starting May 21.
In February, John A. Moran Eye Center Global Outreach Division Senior Medical Director Alan S. Crandall, MD, again answered a call to provide desperately needed cataract surgeries in the African nation.
Choose from hundreds of designer styles from the world's top brands, including Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Miu Miu, Modo, Bevel, and Blake Kuwahara, during the show at Moran Eye Center's Redstone optical shop.
You might compare most researchers to a scalpel, honed for a specific type of work through years of training. But the newest scientist at the John A. Moran Eye Center seems more akin to a deluxe Swiss Army knife.
The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation recently chose three current and recent John A. Moran Eye Center graduates to receive 2019-2020 Heed Fellowship Awards.
Sixteen Moran ophthalmologists and optometrists have earned top marks when compared with their peers, scoring in the top 10 percent nationwide for patient satisfaction in 2018.
Giving, Health Care, Research, Education
Check out the John A. Moran Eye Center’s latest Focus annual report.
Gregory S. Hageman, PhD, and his talented team at the John A. Moran Eye Center have developed the first therapy for age-related macular degeneration based on a better understanding of the genetics of the disease and a ...
Governor Gary R. Herbert will honor Randall J Olson, MD, professor and chair of the University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center, with a 2019 Governor’s Medal...
Health Care, Research, Giving, Education
The Adobe Systems Inc. founder and his wife have gifted $5 million to support ongoing research at the John A. Moran Eye Center.
Health Care, Education, Health Care Transformation
After years of providing sight-saving surgeries and ophthalmic training in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Moran Eye Center Global Outreach Division has taken an important step toward sustainability. Moran ...
Aidan’s retinopathy of prematurity was becoming more severe, but the delicate surgical and laser treatments that could possibly save the young boy's vision weren’t available in his home of Trinidad and Tobago. Physicians...
Health Care, Recognition, Education
The University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Chair and John A. Moran Eye Center CEO built a world-class institution from the ground up starting 40 years ago—and continues to lead it toward a bold ...
Education, Health Care, Giving
The Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division has long worked to meet a growing need for eye care among underserved Utahns. It recently partnered with community organizations to expand outreach for the state’s homeless...
Moran Eye Center research has prompted new instrument sterilization guidelines that stand to impact millions of procedures nationwide.
As part of its ongoing mission to build sustainable eye care in developing countries around the world, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division conducted its fourth major mission to Tanzania in February 20...
John A. Moran Eye Center physicians restored hope and vision on Saturday, January 12, by performing free cataract surgeries for 17 Utahns in need as part of Moran’s twice-yearly Operation Sight Day.
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah is starting 2019 with three new clinicians and new genetic counseling services.
Three John A. Moran Eye Center ophthalmic technicians traveled 6,200 miles to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in December to train 12 nurses from the remote Pacific island nation to conduct thorough vision scree...
John A. Moran Eye Center physicians will restore hope and vision on Saturday, January 12, by performing free cataract surgeries as part of Moran’s twice-yearly Operation Sight Day.
John A. Moran Eye Center physician-scientists Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, will receive awards in 2019 from the Macula Society, a prestigious invitation-only international group focused on...
The Moran Eye Center offers one of the country’s most robust patient support programs to help people like Judy Summer, a Utah artist who learned to shift the way she lives her life and works on her sculptures as her visi...
A resurgence of syphilis worldwide is bringing new attention to the serious damage the venereal disease can have on vision.
Physicians from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will restore vision to support employment, independence, and education for former refugees at the second Hope in Sight Refugee Eye Care Clinic on Sat...
New research by the Angelucci Laboratory at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah offers insight into how the brain combines pieces of visual information into one larger scene.
The John A. Moran Eye Center's exceptional clinical care, residency program, and research place it among the top 10 programs in the nation, according to a survey of top leadership at eye centers across the country.
More than a dozen specialists and researchers from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will be traveling to Chicago this week to share their expertise with colleagues from around the country at the ann...
Working with the Waldron family, glaucoma specialists and researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center are gaining valuable new insights to exfoliation syndrome (XFS), a systemic genetic disorder that’s often diagnosed fi...
Three decades ago, University of Utah bioengineer Richard A. Normann, PhD, had a radical new idea he hoped might create artificial sight for people who had lost their vision due to disease. If the eyes couldn’t function ...
New research from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah highlights a little-known phenomenon that can produce vivid yet harmless hallucinations among older adults as America’s population ages.
Ariana M. Levin, MD, will receive a $15,000 award from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation to support her research.
Leading researchers discussed the future of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in health care, telerobotic eye surgery, and diagnostic imaging at the John A. Moran Eye Center’s recent Translational Research Day.
To better serve patients and keep pace with increasing demand, the John A. Moran Eye Center recently remodeled the entire second floor of its University of Utah location.
A new, donor-supported Nurse Exchange Program furthers the goal of sustainability for Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division.
The U.S. News & World Report 2018-2019 Best Hospitals for Ophthalmology rankings place the Moran Eye Center among the nation's best for providing exceptional care to patients with the most complex eye conditions.
University of Utah President Ruth Watkins has appointed two John A. Moran Eye Center researchers to endowed professorships.
Physician website Doximity has ranked the ophthalmology residency program at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the top 10 in the country.
Two John A. Moran Eye Center clinician researchers now hold endowed chairs at the University of Utah.
True to the charitable mission of their medieval forefathers, today’s Knights Templars continue to support humanitarian causes—such as pediatric blindness—impacting generations to come.
John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, loves travel and a good mystery—and her work provides plenty of both.
Moran Eye Center's latest Operation Sight Day included former refugees screened at Moran's first Hope In Sight Refugee Eye Care Clinic.
The International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) has named the John A. Moran Eye Center as an official ICO Fellowship Host--a designation which brings both an honor and a boon to Moran’s work creating sustainable eye car...
Helping children with disorders that cause the eye’s natural lens to dislocate is tricky. Now, new research from the John A. Moran Eye Center is identifying surgical techniques that provide the best long-term outcomes fo...
A groundbreaking new study by John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, moves physicians one step closer to better treatments for premature babies at risk for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)—the l...
John A. Moran Eye Center physician and renowned neuro-ophthalmologist Kathleen B. Digre, MD, has been appointed the rank of distinguished professor, an honor reserved for individuals whose achievements exemplify the high...
Over the past three decades, Moran Eye Center’s Nick Mamalis, MD, and Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, have vetted some of the most innovative devices in eye care.
A new imaging tool at the Moran Eye Center—the first of its kind in the U.S.—has allowed retinal specialist Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and colleagues to identify subtle changes in retinal cells that point to disease ear...
A prolific new body of research from the John A. Moran Eye Center is vetting a variety of phacoemulsification settings and techniques aimed at making cataract surgery as efficient— and safe—as possible.
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has chosen John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon and researcher Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, as the recipient of its 2018 Mildred Weisenfeld Award. A skilled ped...
The latest technology to arrive in the nonprofit Intermountain Ocular Research Center at the John A. Moran Eye Center—laser-assisted Refractive Index Shaping—stands to transform cataract surgery.
For 20 years running, Moran's Nick Mamalis, MD, has surveyed physicians to examine trends behind IOL explantation surgeries. His 2017 survey found the number of multifocal removals had increased, with ophthalmologists ci...
The founder and senior medical director of the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division, Alan S. Crandall, MD, is the only physician to receive humanitarian awards from all three major ophthalmology organizati...
Refugees now resettled in Utah found help as part of the John A. Moran Eye Center’s first Refugee Eye Care Clinic, held April 7, 2018.
One runner is blind and the other is losing her sight; both are models of resiliency. Utah's Becky Andrews and Alanna Whetsel will run the Boston Marathon together using a tether on Monday, April 16.
Physicians from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah will provide free, comprehensive eye exams to more than 150 adult refugees on Saturday, April 7.
The John A. Moran Eye Center is supporting global efforts to eliminate curable blindness on an unprecedented scale thanks to a new partnership with the world’s largest eye care provider.
Ophthalmic medical device company New World Medical, Inc., has selected incoming John A. Moran Eye Center international fellow Avni Shah, MD, to receive a $10,000 fellowship award.
The latest John A. Moran Eye Center annual FOCUS report features award-winning photos of our outreach work in Tanzania and inspiring stories highlighting the latest advances in research, education, and patient care.
John A. Moran Eye Center Scientist Behrad Noudoost, MD, PhD, is making significant new discoveries about working memory and its impact on the brain’s processing of visual information.
Learn how getting LASIK helped world para-nordic skiing champion Oksana Masters improve her eyesight, her quality of life, and shave points off of her time during competition.
Moran Eye Center CEO Randall J Olson says the new position emphasizes the importance of the department's educational mission.
Retinal researcher Rebecca Pfeiffer shared her work in Washington, D.C., and advocated for continued federal research funding.
Lean how Moran's Global Outreach Division is providing patient care, eyeglasses, teaching and training in Micronesia, a nation with just one ophthalmologist for 70 inhabited islands.
New research from the Moran Eye Center shows potentially negative implications for using the hormone erythropoietin to treat patients with AMD, the leading cause of blindness in adults over 60.
New findings from Moran Eye Center researchers suggest the viability of a different, more selective approach to treating retinopathy of prematurity, the leading cause of blindness and vision loss in children.
Moran Eye Center researchers Wolfgang Baehr and Mary Elizabeth Hartnett recently compiled an exhaustive review of the latest research on diabetic retinopathy in a special issue of Vision Research.
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah an unrestricted grant in the amount of $115,000 a year for five years to support eye research.
As an experienced mom of three school-age boys, Laura Whitton wasn’t unusually concerned, at first, when her ten-year-old son, Avery, experienced what looked like ‘pink eye’ and flu-like symptoms. But Avery grew sicker.
What's it like to come out of blindness, seeing your grandchild's smile for the first time? Share the moment with Mary Reid, one of 19 uninsured Utahns in need who received the gift of sight during the John A. Moran Eye ...
John A. Moran Eye Center physicians will lift the burden of blindness from a 57-year-old widow and 17 other Utahns on December 2 as part of its Operation Sight Day, a twice-yearly event providing free surgeries to low-in...
The David W. Bernolfo Global Vision Center is providing the Johh A. Moran Eye Center’s outreach team with vital spaces and state-of-the-art equipment to improve eye care and education worldwide.
Each year, ARCS awards $15,000 to a first-year Moran Eye Center resident to seed promising research. Moran then matches the award for the following two years of residency, providing a total of $45,000 for a young researc...
Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division hosted their first booth at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in New Orleans, sharing their efforts to end curable blindness worldwide.
The Ophthalmic Photographers Society recently gave top honors to photos from Moran’s Jim Gilman, Melissa Chandler, Becky Weeks, and Danielle Princiotta.
Health Care, Research, Education
A unique new educational website created by the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah supports both medical providers in developing nations and U.S. primary care physicians who are the first line of defense ...
Five John A. Moran Eye Center physicians have earned prestigious honors from the world’s largest association of eye physicians and surgeons, recognized for achievements ranging from surgical innovation to exceptional pat...
Moran Eye Center CEO Randall J Olson, MD, is suggesting improvements to the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for Ophthalmology ranking methodology at the magazine's prestigious Healthcare of Tomorrow conference.
The John A. Moran Eye Center's exceptional clinical care, residency program, and research place it among the top 12 programs in the nation, according to top leadership at eye centers across the country.
Carotenoids are vital nutrients for vision, but how do they reach our retinas?
Douglas P. Marx, MD, an oculoplastic surgeon with extensive pediatric and adult reconstructive experience, has joined the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.
New laboratories at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah are working to understand how the brain processes visual information, and to unravel the mysteries of retinal signaling.
Exactly how one particular kind of carotenoid that humans don’t usually eat winds up in the part of the eye responsible for sharp, central vision has been a mystery—until now.
Low-vision patients can schedule personal evaluations and demos of assistive devices through Moran's Patient Support Program.
What can physicians do to prevent blindness in premature babies? Researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah are getting closer to an answer with the most comprehensive study on the subject to d...
The John A. Moran Eye Center was among many across the country notified via email by Amazon.com of a recall of solar eclipse glasses.
The role of preeclampsia in ROP continues to be controversial, but Moran’s Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, is tracking it down.
Where would ophthalmologists around the country send patients with the most complex eye conditions to receive the best care? The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah was the answer for many in the latest U....
An international group of researchers now estimate at least .5 percent of the world’s population, or 36 million people, are blind.
John A. Moran Eye Center ophthalmologists are warning solar eclipse onlookers about the dangers of viewing the spectacle with the naked eye.
Zenger, 42, has Usher syndrome, a disease characterized by combined retinal degeneration and progressive hearing loss.
Marc, Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and the Calvin and JeNeal Hatch Presidential Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Utah, retired this month as Distinguished Professor Emeritus after 24 years at Moran...
Blind and visually impaired fans treated to a different kind of performance.
The John A. Moran Eye Center Cornea and Refractive Department’s partnership with the Spinal Cord Injury Program and Rehabilitation Center at the University of Utah gives spinal cord injury patients, who have limited or n...
Education, Health Care, Research, Health Care Transformation
The Knights Templar Eye Foundation visited the John A. Moran Eye Center to award two $65,000 Career-Starter Research Grants in pediatric ophthalmology.
Health Care, Health Care Transformation, Education, Research
Two of the nation’s top associations in the field of ophthalmology honored John A. Moran Eye Center physicians and researchers in May for their leadership and work.
Research, Health Care Transformation, Health Care, Education
Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed, MD, called on residents and ophthalmologists to challenge the status quo at Moran's 2017 Resident Alumni Day.
Giving
Generous Night for Sight donors, sponsors, and volunteers raised more than $540,000 to support Global Outreach Division local and international programs.
In April 2017, a team from the Moran Eye Center and Utah Lions Eye Bank (ULEB) completed an historic medical mission in Bolivia to help establish that country’s first eye bank at the Instituto Nacional de Oftalmologie (I...
Choose from among the world's top eyewear fashions at the John A. Moran Eye Center's June 23 Luxury Eyewear Show & Sale.
Health Care, Research
Volunteer physicians, nurses, and medical staff from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah changed the lives of 23 cataract patients on April 8 by providing free, sight-restoring surgeries.
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett MD, is gathering pediatric ophthalmologists and retinal specialists from around the world for a unique new opportunity to learn about the latest treatments and surgical techniques from the field’...
Moran’s David Krizaj, PhD, has identified a new protein that regulates intraocular pressure in glaucoma and is designing a potentially sight-saving treatment.
The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS) has selected John A. Moran Eye Center Glaucoma and Cataract Division Director Alan S. Crandall, MD, as the first recipient of its Chang Humanitarian Award....
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), a New York-based foundation, has recently awarded a grant of $115,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology.
To most people, vision correction surgery seems like a convenience, freeing them from the day-to-day hassle of contacts and glasses. But for patients with mobility issues, it can feel like a lifeline.
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, and colleagues at the John A. Moran Center and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, were looking for a way to tease apart the effects of pr...
October 27, 2016: Salt Lake City: Moran Physicians and principal investigator Paul Bernstein, MD, PhD, published a case study released today in JAMA Ophthalmology showing reasons to monitor your supplement intake if you ...
Moran Researcher, Alessandra Angelucci, MD, PhD, is one of four faculty members from the University of Utah to receive Neurotechnologies grants from the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiatives.
Moran physicians receive honors and are major educational contributors at this year’s AAO Meeting in Chicago.
World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. In the spirit of World Sight Day 2016’s theme of “Stronger Together,” the...
One Moran Physician Researches a Promising New Alternative. Vitreoretinal surgeon and retina specialist, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, published recently how new experimental research may have a role in precision medicine...
Moran celebrated it's newest clinic location at the Farmington Health Center at Station Park. Moran physicians Brian Zaugg, MD; Alan Morgan, OD; David Dries, MD; and Griffin Jardine, MD; lead the vision healthcare team.
Moran Glaucoma Faculty Partners with the Utah Population Database, University of Utah Healthcare System, Duke University, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Genome Institute of Singapore to show the relationship between...
Dry eye is a serious, progressive condition that can potentially lead to severe vision problems if not treated. Dr. Amy Lin, discusses how to recognize dry eye symptoms.
Drs. Young and Hartnett teamed up with video game developers from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program and won “Best Student Game” in the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge in Orlando, Flor...
A long awaited intraocular lens made it's debut on August 25th at the Moran Eye Center. This lens is an exciting new option for cataract patients.
The John A. Moran Eye Center leaps to number 13 for "Best Hospitals in Ophthalmology" in the U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking.
Dr. Olson received the Jan Worst Medal Lecture at the annual ASCRS meeting in New Orleans on May 8, 2016.
Leah Owen, MD, PhD, Moran pediatric specialist and Moran assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, discusses the development of a new model to predict children at risk for ROP, which could potentially hel...
Dr. Albert Vitale received a prestigious Humanitarian award from the Utah Ophthalmology Society for his exemplary service to the local, national, and/or international community.
Moran’s Barbara Wirostko, MD, found that for many ophthalmic healthcare practitioners, managing patients with infected corneal wounds can be difficult. So Dr. Wirostko realized that a polymer—CMHA-S hydrogel could be us...
Dr. Alan Crandall received a prestigious Humanitarian award from the American Glaucoma Society for his work in underprivileged areas around the globe.
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO has been named the 2016 recipient of the Paul Henkind Memorial Lecture and Award by the Macula Society.
Dr. Geoff Tabin received Biosyntrx Thornton Humanitarian Award.
Moran received a grant in the amount of $115,000 from Research to Prevent Blindness to help fund our research in the prevention of blinding diseases.
University of Utah students win national competition for video game completely controlled by eye movement.
Drs. Randall J Olson and Nick Mamalis received AAO's Lifetime Achievement Awards earlier in November.
Dr. Nikko Ronquillo was awarded the prestigious 2016 ARCS Foundation’s Randall J Olson Scholar Award. This award will enable Nikko to continue his research during his residency.
Dr. Alessandra Angelucci partners with the University of Utah’s School of Computing to construct a 3D map of the brain that will save precious time in understanding connections in an abnormal brain.
On Saturday October 10, 2015 more than forty volunteers at three Utah sights restored sight to thirty-four Utahans in need.
Saturday October 10th, Utah eye surgeons will perform dozens of sight saving surgeries on low income patients across the state.
Governor Herbert declares October 8, 2015 as Utah Sight Day.
Research
The Johnson Foundation out of New York donated $100,000 to the Moran Eye Center to support Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) research. AMD is the leading cause of worldwide blindness.
Education
Moran Resident Brian Stagg has been accepted into an elite scholars program that offers a two-year fellowship.
Doximity, the leading medical professional network, ranked Moran's residency program tenth in the nation. Determined by peers, the ranking also reflects how Moran is viewed by the national ophthalmic community.
Presidential Candidate Senator Rand Paul will join the Moran in Haiti for his second international outreach trip to perform sight-saving surgery to those without access to healthcare.
The Moran Eye Center is nationally ranked as one of the top Ophthalmology Departments in the nation according to US News and World Report.
At the helm of Moran’s Intermountain Ocular Research Center, Nick Mamalis, MD, and Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, have revolutionized intraocular lens (IOL) implants, design, and surgical techniques.
Thanks to generous sponsors, a dedicated committee, and 500-plus guests—including local business and community leaders, physicians, families, patients, friends, and more than 60 volunteers—the John A. Moran Eye Center’s ...
Eye to Eye: Re-visioning Eye Disease is an interactive exhibit that explores stories of eye disease in Utah and celebrates the many ways that people thrive by using their other senses and technology to adapt to low visio...
Art Access Gallery is collaborating with The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah for Visions, an exhibit bridging the worlds of art and science. The exhibit will consist of retinal photography by several p...
Thanks to the combined efforts of volunteer doctors, nurses, technicians, anesthesiologists, and staff, 27 individuals had cataracts removed and their sight restored on Saturday, March 28, 2015, as part of the Moran Outr...
Researchers with the Marc Laboratory at the John A. Moran Eye Center were among the top finalists for the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards.
Glaucoma is caused by increased pressure in the eye. Dr. David Krizaj has discovered that we can block those pressure sensors with pressure-reducing drugs, and we could protect cells from dying.
John A. Moran Eye Center graduate Michael Feilmeier, MD, was recently named a recipient of the United States Junior Chambers Ten Outstanding Young Americans award.
Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, was honored with the Utah Ophthalmology Society’s 2014 Lewis A. Petersen, MD Humanitarian Award at the society’s annual meeting on February 20, 2015.
Randall J Olson, MD, Chair of University of Utah Health Care's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center, was awarded the Philip M. Corboy, MD Memorial Award for Distinguish...
Art Access is collaborating with The Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah for an exhibit bridging the worlds of art and science.
The Moran Eye Center Outreach team returned Sunday from a mission to Salama, Guatemala—a region with 800,000 people and only one ophthalmologist. While there, the all-volunteer group performed over 100 sight-restoring su...
Jade Therapeutics, Inc., announced today the election of Randall Olson, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Ut...
It's hard to believe, but there are still thousands of individuals in the United States suffering from curable blindness¿and many of them live right here in Utah. For the past three years the University of Utah¿s John A....
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Scientific Contribution Award and the Honorary Lecture Award.
Randall J. Olson, MD, professor and chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, was honored at the commencement ceremonies with the Rosenblatt Prize for E...
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Scientific Contribution Award.
Three neuro-ophthalmologists at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, participated in a recent NIH-funded study that revealed the use of an inexpensive glaucoma drug (acetazolamide), when added to a weight re...
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah today announced that Voyant Biotherapeutics, LLC, a company formed out of its Center for Translational Medicine (CTM), has signed an exclusive R&D Collaboration Agre...
Study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; results offer hope for future treatments for retinal degeneration
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected Wolfgang B. Baehr, PhD, received the Proctor Medal, an international award recognizing contributions to vision research in the basic or clinica...
Digre Will Share Insights on Moran's Efforts in Research, Patient Care, and Education
Barbara M. Wirostko, MD, Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, has joined the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of The Glaucoma Foundation (TGF). Dr. Wirostko's specialties are glaucoma a...
As the Project Administrator of Ophthalmic Imaging at the Moran Eye Center, Jim Gilman has established a reputation for both technical mastery and artistic skill, winning more than 40 awards for his work since 1982.
An award-winning documentary about the Moran Eye Center¿s bold, five-day mission to deliver eye care in a remote and war-torn region of South Sudan¿one of the blindest places on earth¿is making its New York debut at ...
"Came in blind, going out seeing. It can't get better than that." Moran Patient, after donated surgery at Moran Eye Center.
The John A. Moran Eye Center is proud to join with Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert in observing World Sight Day and the newly declared Utah Sight Day on October 10, 2013.
A University of Utah researcher and ophthalmologist helped confirm important findings from a group of Icelandic scientists who uncovered a rare risk locus for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Dr. Hartnett is celebrating the release of the second edition of her textbook, Pediatric Retina, which is considered to be the first of its kind and the main industry reference on pediatric retina. Dr. Hartnett slowed do...
A new study published by The University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center highlights significant progress toward isolating the underlying causes of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition that commonly affects pre...
Dr. Paul S. Bernstein. MD, PhD, Moran Eye Cente: 2013 UPDATE ON NUTRITION AND MACULAR DEGENERATION New results from a large study on nutritional supplements for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). What did AREDS2 ...
Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, was recently appointed as Chairperson to the Diseases and Pathophysiology of the Visual System Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health.
Book recounting the efforts of Tabin and his colleague Dr. Sanduk Ruit goes on sale June 18, 2013.
November is Diabetes Awareness Month, a good time to learn-and do something about-the possible effects of this disease that affects more than 25 million people in the U.S.
The American Journal of Pathology, the leading global forum for reporting quality original research on cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease, has published a research paper originating from the John A. Moran Eye C...
Barbara Wirostko, MD, a clinical adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, saw an opportunity to learn more about glaucoma through using a tool unique to Utah, ...
Jun Yang, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine and researcher at the John. A. Moran Eye Center, is committed to studying the molecular mechanisms u...
The University of Utah's M.E. Hartnett, MD, has a full calendar at this week's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting in Orlando. She is organizing and moderating a cross-disciplinary symposi...
Dr. Norm Zabriskie, MD, is an associate professor and vice-chairman and director of clinical operations for the Moran Eye Center at the university of Utah School of Medicine. He discusses the intricacies of intraocular l...
Alan Crandall, MD, Receives Clark Lowe Rich Distinguished Surgeon and Mentor Award
Wolfgang Baehr, PhD, will be awarded Research To Prevent Blindness Nelson Trust Award for Retinitis Pigmentosa for work studying retinal diseases. Research to Prevent Blindness, a New York-based foundation, has announ...
