Moran Eye Center

The Moran Eye Center is the largest vision treatment and research center between the west coast and Texas, and is considered one of the top eye centers in the world. The center employs over 60 faculty members and more than 420 staff. Faculty members include ophthalmologists, optometrists and basic science vision researchers who come from 23 different countries.

The first center opened in 1993 thanks to a generous gift from U of U alumnus, John A. Moran. The new 210,000 square foot…

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The Moran Eye Center is the largest vision treatment and research center between the west coast and Texas, and is considered one of the top eye centers in the world. The center employs over 60 faculty members and more than 420 staff. Faculty members include ophthalmologists, optometrists and basic science vision researchers who come from 23 different countries.

The first center opened in 1993 thanks to a generous gift from U of U alumnus, John A. Moran. The new 210,000 square foot facility on the University of Utah campus opened on August 3, 2006.

The center's ophthalmologists and optometrists see patients at 13 clinics locations across the Wasatch Front and provide patients with a wide range of services including: comprehensive family eye care, glasses and contact lenses, laser and non-laser vision correction (including complex LASIK cases), cataract surgery and glaucoma treatment, plastic and reconstructive surgery, surgery and treatment for diseases of the retina, neuro-ophthalmology, orientation to vision loss services, and 24-hour emergency services.

The center is recognized as a world leader in clinical research for AMD & the design of intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery, as well as complications associated with cataract surgery.

The center's basic science research is focused on the areas of retinal diseases, artificial vision, genetics and genetic therapies in ophthalmology, retinal cell regeneration and transplantation, and retina and retinal cell development.

The center's graduate physician training program is consistently ranked among the best residency programs in the country.

The center is home to the Utah Lions Eye Bank which provides donor tissue for vision-restoring corneal transplants to more than 450 recipients throughout the intermountain-west every year.

In 2010, the center received nearly $8.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to support vision research. Additional support comes from private donors and revenue generated from clinical and surgical services. Less than one percent of the center’s budget comes from the State of Utah.

The profits generated from the center's optical locations are used to support ongoing clinical and basic science research into blinding eye diseases.

The center and its 12 satellite clinics host more than 120,000 clinic visits each year. Moran Eye Center surgeons perform more than 7,000 surgical procedures each year.

The John A. Moran Eye Center is committed to the goal that no blinding condition, eye disease or visual impairment should be without hope, without understanding and without treatment.

We dedicate ourselves to serve the visually impaired through education, research, clinical care, and community outreach, and to create a legacy upon which future generations can continue to build. Categories:   Opticians and Optical Goods | Ophthalmologists | Optometrists

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