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Eye Disease Research and Care

For millions of children and adults, the world can be blurry, distorted or hardly visible at all. The Eye Institute works to alleviate those patients’ suffering and improve the outcomes for many whose diseases were at one time untreatable. Since the Eye Institute opened more than 40 years ago, our researchers have diligently worked to understand the causes of eye disease. Discoveries in the lab, made possible in part through philanthropic support, have sparked an improved understanding and more effective methods of treatment.
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Support Eye Disease Research and Care

Your gift today makes tomorrow's breakthroughs possible.
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Our Programs

The foresight of visionary patients, alumni, and friends has helped us launch projects and programs that were once only dreams, make discoveries that previously seemed impossible, and provided seed funds for projects that were leveraged into subsequent NIH funding.

Patient Care

Patient Care

As a regional source for the latest medical knowledge, Eye Institute physicians are recognized nationally and internationally for advances in the diagnosis and management of complex medical and surgical eye diseases.
Education

Education

Trainees at the Eye Institute are exposed to a diverse patient population in clinical and research settings and a wide range of eye disease research opportunities as they prepare for a career in vision care and science.
Vision Research

Vision Research

The Eye Institute combines clinical expertise with innovative research to advance treatments of eye disease and is regarded as a world leader in the use of adaptive optics, a technique that allows noninvasive imaging of individual cells in the retina.

Impact

41

Eye Institute physicians and researchers

60,000

patient visits a year

3,300

surgical cases a year

How You Can Help

Advance Disease-Specific Research

Advance Disease-Specific Research

Help our faculty make inroads in the treatment and prevention of a given disease, including AMD, glaucoma, inherited retinal diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and retinopathy of prematurity, among others. 

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Graduate Education Funds

Graduate Education Funds

To pay stipends of graduate students training under one of our vision scientists or to cover travel expenses so they can present research at professional meetings.

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Residency Education Funds

Residency Education Funds

To purchase equipment to help residents develop their surgical proficiency or finance travel so residents can present research at national and international meetings. 

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Support a Specific Research Program

Support a Specific Research Program

Our programs include Advanced Ocular Imaging Program (AOIP), Ocular Gene Therapy Laboratory, retinal research, and pediatric vision research. 

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Contact Us

Gina Vrtochnick

Director of Development, Ophthalmology

(414) 805-3309
gvrtochnick@mcw.edu