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Upcoming Events

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2023 EBAA Annual Meeting
June 21, 2023 – June 24, 2023
Join us in Dallas!
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2023 AOPO Annual Meeting
June 12, 2023 – June 15, 2023
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Identifying New Partners to Promote Donation in Your Community
July 13, 2023
virtual
The CEBT Exam: What You Need to Know!
July 27, 2023
virtual
Hosting a Wet Lab: What You Need to Know
August 10, 2023
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Annual Events & Observances

EBAA Annual Meeting

The EBAA Annual Meeting, held each June, brings together hundreds of eye bank professionals and corneal surgeons for four days of sessions and activities designed to enhance attendees’ eye banking careers, connect with colleagues, and recommit to EBAA’s mission to #RestoreSight worldwide.

  • 2023 Annual Meeting June 21-24, Fairmont Dallas
  • 2024 Annual Meeting June 5-8, Loews Kansas City
  • 2025 Annual Meeting June 25-29 Loews Coronado Bay Resort   

Eye Donation Month

For 35 years, EBAA and its member eye banks have utilized this commemoration to raise eye donation awareness, honor donors and their families and celebrate cornea recipients.

Learn more about Eye Donation Month

Run for Vision

Since 1986, EBAA has hosted the Run for Vision, a 5K race that raises public awareness about cornea donation and transplantation. The Run, held in conjunction with EBAA’s Fall Leadership Conference, attracts hundreds of eye bankers, physicians, cornea recipients and donor family members, as well as interested members of the public.

Since its inception, the Run has been underwritten by Bausch + Lomb, which ensures that ever dollar contributed to the Run can be used to further our shared mission to restore sight.


National Minority Donor Awareness Month

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM). Its purpose is to save and improve the quality of life for diverse communities by creating a positive culture for eye, organ, and tissue donation.

Learn more about NMDAM

National Donate Life Month

Donate Life America (DLA) has headlined the National Donate Life Month celebration since 2003. In conjunction with DLA, the nation’s eye banks, tissue banks, organ procurement organizations and other transplant groups celebrate this occasion annually in April, to acknowledge the extraordinary generosity of organ, eye, and tissue donors and their families, and to encourage fellow Americans to follow their example by registering as a donor.

Learn more about NDLM

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