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Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences offers one of the nation’s top educational programs, providing excellent didactic training and extensive surgical experience. It operates the John A. Moran Eye Center—the largest clinical care and research facility in the Mountain West—and 10 community clinics, providing care in all ophthalmic subspecialties.

Moran is also home to 20 innovative research labs and centers, where internationally awarded faculty are developing the treatments of tomorrow.

Letter from the Chair

Randall J Olson, MD

The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine began in 1979 as a one-person division within the Department of Surgery. Since that time, we have become a celebrated vision institute with an international reputation for excellence in ophthalmology care, research, education, and charitable outreach.

Randall J Olson, MD

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah

The Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair

CEO, John A. Moran Eye Center

Director, University of Utah Vision Institute

In the News

Moran Eye Center Again Ranked Among the Top 10

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah among the nation’s Top 10 eye centers for the third year running.

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Moran Eye Center Docs Named to 2024 Power List

The Ophthalmologist magazine has named five John A. Moran Eye Center leaders in care and research to its 2024 Power List of the 100 most influential people in ophthalmology worldwide.

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Remembering John A. Moran

The John A. Moran Eye Center mourns the loss of its namesake, a University of Utah alum remembered for his generous philanthropy and dream to restore vision.

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Patient Testing Begins for AMD Therapy Developed at Moran

Patient testing is underway for a new therapy for age-related macular degeneration developed by the Moran Eye Center’s Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine.

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Driving Discovery: The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah

John A. Moran Eye Center Research Overview 2023

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