Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Thanks to a network of Lions Club volunteers, the University of Iowa-based program identifies eye problems early in toddlers and preschoolers.

Following Larry Molyneux’s eye injury, surgeons at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics performed an artificial iris implant using advanced technology. The What Cheer man’s vision has improved and his eye looks natural.

Chick Weiner, the author of 12 books on independent living and managing disabilities, does not remember a time that she was not involved in disability rights work. As young child in the Great Depression, she has clear memories of her grandmother pulling out raffle tickets from her purse to raise...

Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD) is a complex genetic disease that affects 6.1 million Americans over the age of 40 and causes endothelial cells, which form a thin layer on the inside of the cornea, to die. Without any available medical therapies to treat or slow the progression of...

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine has been granted an Unrestricted Grant by Research to Prevent Blindness ( RPB ) in the amount of $115,000 a year to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology. This funding has been awarded based on a thorough review of...

When Gabi Von Roedern was in high school, her optometrist said something wasn’t right with her eyes. Not only was her vision imperfect, but her eyes were dry and red all the time.

When Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, was an ophthalmology resident, he found himself spending a lot of his time with patients doing annual diabetic retinopathy exams, only to confirm they didn’t have the disease and telling them to come back in a year. Conversely, he’d also see patients who were...

The Diversity Visiting Student Scholarship, a new initiative started in 2022 by UIHC's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commitee, is awarded to extraordinary students from under-represented backgrounds. Adetayo Oladele-Ajose was a recipient of this scholarship when she did a rotation at the...

Resident education has been a focus of the Department of Ophthalmology since it became its own department at Iowa, with Dr. Cecil Starling O'Brien as the first Chair of the Department in 1925. At the time, O’Brien’s three-year residency program accepted one resident per year. Today the Residency...

A 27-year-old man from Galesburg, Illinois came to the University of Iowa Glaucoma Clinic in 1986 seeking surgery for his glaucoma. He recognized that the few people with glaucoma in his family who were not blind had undergone surgery, and he knew he needed help if he were to keep his sight....