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Vision loss. Visual impairment. Low vision. Blindness. The loss of vision is frightening for the individual, costly to society and, to this day, virtually impossible to prevent or reverse once disease has laid claim to a person’s sight. For 150 years, the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary has been committed to improving the ophthalmologic care and quality of life for individuals who are visually impaired and blind.

Your gift can help us deliver highly specialized patient care with compassion to those who are losing or have lost their vision. It can help us identify what causes blinding eye diseases – the first step in finding a cure – and to develop novel diagnostic tools, clinical interventions and applications of emerging technologies to treat eye diseases. Just as importantly, your gift can help to ensure that the next generation of clinicians and scientists are equipped not only with superb ophthalmologic knowledge but are also inspired to ask questions and never willing to settle for simple answers in their quest to provide the best possible care to their patients.

Over the years, the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary has provided charitable care while responding to advances in medical practice and training that have produced the powerhouse academic medical centers we recognize today as champions of innovation, technological breakthroughs and life-changing biomedical discoveries. As we celebrate our 150th anniversary, our physicians and scientists are equally able to embrace the historic charitable mission of the Infirmary and the rigorous standards of a leading–edge academic medical center. Please join us in our mission to improve the lives of people who are losing or have lost their vision by giving to the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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Illinois Eye Fund: Gifts to the Illinois Eye Fund support the education, clinical and research efforts of the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Learn more about Illinois Eye Fund.