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Health Care, Education
Researchers studying age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have clarified what constitutes genetic risk or protection for the blinding disease, showing that certain forms of protection amount to an “ace in the hole” tha...
Education, Health Care
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah is routinely recognized for its exceptional care and has been ranked among the best eye centers in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and Ophthalmology Times.
Recent outcomes reflect the Moran Eye Center's dedication to providing exceptional care while fulfilling its teaching role as part of an academic medical center at the University of Utah.
University of Utah Health has led the way as health care systems nationwide pursue process and policy improvements. At the John A. Moran Eye Center, this commitment extends to a broad range of measures to provide the bes...
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.
Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, recently received a Knights Templar Foundation (KTEF) grant to support her research into Stickler syndrome, a hereditary childhood disorder that can cause retinal...
Education, Health Care, Recognition
The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation is honoring two Moran Eye Center student physician-scientists with grants to support research projects during their medical school residencies at the Unive...
A nationwide Ophthalmology Times magazine survey of eye center chairpersons and residency program directors placed the John A. Moran Eye Center as the No. 11 Best Overall Program in the country.
About a dozen John A. Moran Eye Center faculty members will soon be joining colleagues across the country for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting to learn and discuss the latest and greatest in car...
Scientists at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have discovered a new type of nerve cell, or neuron, in the retina.
Newly published research details how a team of scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University successfully created a form of artificial vision for a blind w...
For more than 30 years, John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Richard “Dick” Normann, PhD, has been working to create a form of artificial vision for people who have completely lost their sight. With the successful testing...
The John A. Moran Eye Center recently welcomed glaucoma and cataract specialist Austin S. Nakatsuka, MD, as a full-time faculty member.
A research team including John A. Moran Eye Center scientists has identified reading ability and reading speed as key measures for evaluating visual decline in patients with dry, late-stage age-related macular degenerati...
Night for Sight, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s largest community event benefitting the Global Outreach Division’s work to end curable blindness in Utah and worldwide, exceeded a fundraising goal of $1 million.
Education, Giving, Health Care
Join us for Night for Sight, the John A. Moran Eye Center’s largest community event benefitting our Global Outreach Division’s work to end curable blindness in Utah and worldwide. The benefit is set for Saturday, October...
Gabriel Hulewsky, OD, provides comprehensive optometry services and has special interests in contact lenses, dry eye management, and sports vision.
John A. Moran Eye Center surgeon-scientist Leah A. Owen, MD, PhD, is among 28 elite, early-career vision scientists selected to present their research to Congress this September. Her research is working to prevent retino...
Shandi Beckwith, OD, provides a full range of optometry services for adults and children, with an emphasis on specialty contact lenses. She is also certified in myopia management for children ages 8-12.
Nearly 30 Utahns attended Moran’s Hope in Sight Redwood Outreach Clinic recently for free comprehensive eye exams, eyeglasses, and surgery referrals.
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah continues to rank among the nation’s top eye centers according to U.S. News & World Report, taking the No. 11 spot on the magazine’s most recent annual list.
Doximity has ranked the John A. Moran Eye Center residency program among the nation’s top 10 programs for a fourth year running.
Research conducted at the Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine (SCTM) at the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center explains why people carrying a block of genetic variants strongly associated wi...
John A. Moran Eye Center faculty will share skills and present research at the upcoming American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meeting this week.
A new grant from the University of Utah School of Medicine’s GME Resident Engagement & Training for Underserved & Rural Needs will allow the Moran Eye Center to train certified ophthalmic assistants on the Navajo Nation ...
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...
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...
Education, Health Care, Research
The mission of the Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division consists of three parts: provide state-of-the-art care to patients; serve as leaders in the clinical education of uveitis locally, nationally, and internationally; a...
Ocular inflammatory disease, including uveitis, scleritis, and orbital inflammatory disease, can be acute or chronic, infectious, non-infectious, or present as a masquerade syndrome. Therefore, its management is manifold...
Cataract surgery in uveitis patients requires special consideration. Both intraocular inflammation and its first-line treatment (steroids) contribute to cataract progression, and cataracts are a main cause of decreased v...
Clinical updates from the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division, including a new CMV screening protocol, managing patient care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing clinical trials, and selected research publications...
In resource-poor countries such as Myanmar, which has the second-highest number of people living with HIV in Southeast Asia, the rates of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis and associated vision-threatening complications re...
Health Care, Research, Education
The John A. Moran Eye Center’s Uveitis Division took shape in 2003. Albert T. Vitale, MD, Akbar Shakoor, MD, and Marissa B. Larochelle, MD, comprise the only uveitis division between Colorado and California and are among...
Physician referral information and resources for the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.
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.
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.
A woman in her mid-20s was seen for a new gray spot in the vision of her left eye. Multifocal ERG, Humphrey visual field testing, and fundus autofluorescence were needed to help make a diagnosis.
Electrophysiology and multimodal imaging comes to the rescue of a 67-year-old woman referred to neuro-ophthalmology for visual disturbances that she had noticed for the last five years.
A one-year-old girl was referred to Moran Eye Center's pediatric retina clinic by her pediatric ophthalmologist for evaluation of likely persistent fetal vasculature syndrome, but a combination of imaging procedures help...
A 78-year-old man was referred for an ultrasound of his right eye to evaluate a small choroidal nevus. He also mentioned almost total loss of vision in his left eye over the past several days. Remaining open to alternati...
Patient-specific orbital implants are revolutionizing the results we can provide for patients who have experienced significant trauma to the eye sockets. We are utilizing patient-specific implants at the Moran Eye Center...
Retinal specialist Michael P. Teske, MD, has been an early adopter of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). We asked him to share how he’s using OCTA and the benefits this advanced imaging provides for patient...
Using the only imaging modality of its type in the U.S. in the past 2 1/2 years, Moran physician-scientists are working to revolutionize how clinicians diagnose and treat diseases.
Since its inception in 1972, the Utah Lions Eye Bank (ULEB) has facilitated the gift of sight worldwide. An extension of the Moran Eye Center, the nonprofit ULEB is dedicated to the mission of sight restoration and prese...
For this edition of Clinical Focus, we asked some of our leading clinicians and researchers to highlight the role of imaging and electrophysiology in the care of patients.
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
The John A. Moran Eye Center's Clinical Ophthalmology Resource for Education (CORE) website aims to close educational gaps near and far. The unique website provides open-access, peer-reviewed ophthalmic education for med...
Art Therapy for Children with Low Vision is a free yearly program—one in a series of classes and vision rehabilitation services for patients, families, and caregivers of all ages offered by Moran Eye Center's nationally ...
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.
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.
