The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, also referred to as the Wilmer Eye Institute, is a component of the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a Private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Ho ...
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Ophthalmologist
William Holland Wilmer
William Holland Wilmer (October 9, 1782 – July 24, 1827) was an Episcopal Church (USA), Episcopal priest, teacher and writer in Maryland and Virginia who served briefly as the eleventh president of the College of William and Mary.
Early lif ...
opened the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1925. Its home was completed four years later. Wilmer received an M.D. degree from the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
in 1885 and worked in New York, Washington D.C., in addition to Baltimore, where he established the institute.
succeeded Wilmer as director in 1934. The third director,
A. Edward Maumenee succeeded Woods in 1955.
Arnall Patz
Arnall Patz (June 14, 1920 – March 11, 2010) was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 ...
became the fourth director in 1979.
Morton F. Goldberg became director in 1989.
Peter J. McDonnell
Peter J. McDonnell is an American ophthalmologist who is the director of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and the William Holland Wilmer Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Life
McDonnell completed a bachelor ...
has been Wilmer's director since 2003.
References
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Eye hospitals in the United States
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