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 vision in...
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...
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 remain...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
