Wonder girl
Three-year-old Aliyah nearly lost sight in her right eye after an accident. After the nearly two-year journey, Aliyah celebrated her recovery — thanks to the OHSU Casey Eye Institute.
Impact Area: Eye & Vision
The OHSU Casey Eye Institute is working to create a world in which no one has to go blind.
In memoriam: Paul Casey
Note: The following profile appeared in the November 2019 issue of Onward Magazine, just prior to Mr. Casey’s passing. We are grateful for his generous and steadfast support of the Casey Eye Institute. Paul Casey cares deeply about the OHSU Casey Eye Institute. Not a surprise: His family name is on the building. But you […]
Donor spotlight: Glenn and Marilyn Hart
Marilyn Hart jokes that her eye doctor once told her she could be a poster child for successful eye surgeries. Hart is grateful for the care she has received at Casey Eye Institute over the last 25 years.
John Wold’s legacy for macular degeneration research
John S. Wold was a businessman, geologist, inventor, a former U.S. congressman and a philanthropist. In the last 20 years of his life, macular degeneration — a blinding eye disease — came between him and the things he loved the most. He was passionate about supporting research to stop the disease and return vision to […]
An eye-opening era in gene therapy
Pictured Above: Achromatopsia clinical trial patient Annie Joiner. She’s seen the world throughout her life in black and white until a gene therapy clinical trial gave her a first glimpse of color. No one has looked at the colors on an iPhone with as much fascination as Annie Joiner has in the past couple of […]
