85,411
Number of corneas provided for transplant in 2018
68,102
U.S. donors of ocular tissue in 2018
95+%
Success rate of cornea transplants
$6.0B
Lifetime economic benefit of cornea transplants performed in 2018
“Knowing Maddie's giving spirit, I am sure she is smiling down on us every day because we allowed her to help someone else.”
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“Today, he isn’t scared to do any of the things he loves, like swimming and riding four-wheelers with his cousins or playing quarterback with his brothers during football.”
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Everyone is a universal eye donor - give the gift of sight!More than 113,000 people are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants. Twenty of them will die today because there simply aren’t enough organs to meet the need. Help save lives. Sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor at bit.ly/2P7gmXf
Eye Donation Month may be over, but it was certainly celebrated and recognized all over! From sea to shining sea, at National Parks, across the ocean, and even at Disney World - Eye Donation Month was everywhere! Thanks to all the amateur photographers who captured the spirit and helped spread the good word about eye and cornea donation. We can't wait to see where Eye Donation Month turns up next year! 👁 #eyedonationmonth #restoresight #giftofsight
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) have partnered to launch EyeFind, a new online tool
that will connect eye and vision researchers with eye banks to more efficiently obtain eye tissue that is critical for their research.
The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) has released its 2018 Eye Banking Statistical Report which includes data from all 57 U.S. and 11 international member eye bank reporting entities for the calendar year 2018.
Read MoreThe Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), a nonprofit member-based association dedicated to the restoration of sight worldwide, today launched its Ocular Network Exchange, also known as ONE, to help member eye banks provide higher quality ocular tissue to surgeons and to find the best possible use for donated corneas.
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