Will Curing Blindness Bring Peace?
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John A. Moran Eye Center University of Utah Health Care 40 years of civil war... Will curing blindness FOCUS bring peace? 2013 SOUTH SUDAN PEACE C IRCLE MORAN ADVISORY COUNCIL ROBERT F BENNETT WAYNE IMBRESCIA Falls Church, Virginia John A. Moran Eye Center JOHN BLOOMBERG CLAUDIA S LUTTRELL La Jolla, California Salt Lake City, Utah REED BRINTON ROBERT E MARC, PHD Salt Lake City, Utah John A. Moran Eye Center ALAN S CRANDALL, MD JOHN A MORAN John A. Moran Eye Center Palm Beach, Florida IAN CUMMING RANDALL J OLSON, MD 2013 Jackson Hole, Wyoming John A. Moran Eye Center STEVE DEZII CHASE N PETERSON, MD Las Vegas, Nevada Park City, Utah SPENCER F ECCLES LYNN WARD Salt Lake City, Utah John A. Moran Eye Center GREGORY S HAGEMAN, PHD STEVE WYNN John A. Moran Eye Center Las Vegas, Nevada ALAN HIRSCHFIELD NORM A ZABRISKIE, MD Jackson, Wyoming John A. Moran Eye Center JoHN A. M o RAN E y E CENTER FOCUS 2013 Contents Official Publication of the John A. Moran Eye Center University of Utah Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 2 Message from the Chair John A. Moran Eye Center The Words of a Mother, the Miracles 65 Mario Capecchi Drive of Vision and Peace Today Salt Lake City, UT 84132 801-581-2352 4 South Sudan Seeing Your Enemy in a New Light EDIToR Steve Brown, Communications Manager 8 Night for Sight ExTERNAL RELATIoNS TEAM/CoNTRIBUToRS Dedicated Volunteers, Friends, and Linda Bult, Editor, Writer Generous Donors Tawnja Carballo, Development Specialist 10 Highlights B.J. Fullmer, Administrative Assistant Kirsten Mallik, Director of Development 13 Ophthalmologists Esther Pomeroy, Communications Specialist 18 Val A. and Edith D. Green Foundation Heidi Reid, Development Officer Three Generations of Giving Lynn Ward, Executive Director Every Little Bit of Kindness Comes Back INTERNATIoNAL DIVISIoN oF oPHTHALMoLoGy 19 AND LoCAL oUTREACH 22 Charitable Saturday Surgery Day Julie Crandall, Project Coordinator Tara Kisow, Program Coordinator 24 Andy’s Unexpected Pit Stop Michael Yei, Manager 27 Research Team CoNSULTANTS 30 Our Mission is Remission Virginia Rainey, Editor, Writer Diagnosis and Treatment of Uveitis GRAPHIC DESIGN Spatafore & Associates 32 Moran Researchers Upend Prevailing Theories about Rare Childhood Disease PHoToGRAPHy Steve Brown 34 Shedding New Light on Retinopathy of Prematurity patient ca e Laurel Dokos r 1 James Gilman, CRA, FOPS 36 Residents and Fellows 2013-2014 Bryan W. Jones, PhD Ace Kvale 38 Moran’s New Resident 1 Steve Leitch Continuity Clinic esea c Brandee Michaelson r r h A Clear Vision of Service Timmy O’Neill 40 Patrick Reddish 41 Community Clinics F o c u s 2 0 1 3 Michael Schoenfeld 42 David Kelby Johnson out each PRINTING Hope Fund r Printers Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah The Expanding, Enduring Legacy A special thanks to the many hard working Moran Eye Center 44 of Sam Skaggs employees, management, health care workers, physicians, education patients, and researchers who generously contributed their 46 Second Suns time and talent to make this publication possible. Special Moran’s Drs. Geoffrey Tabin thanks also to Kay Spatafore and Lori Garfield, Designers. and Sanduk Ruit For more information about the Moran Eye Center, visit our 48 Donors 2012 website: www.moraneyecenter.org. Follow us on Facebook at Moran Eye Center and on Twitter @MoranEyeCenter. 54 Appointments, Honors, and Awards Requests for additional copies of this publication may be 2012-2013 sent to the following: Communications Manager, Moran Eye Industry Leadership and Service Center, 65 Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132. 56 ©2013 John A. Moran Eye Center. All rights reserved. The 62 Clinical Trials Moran Eye Center does not assume responsibility for any 64 Technology Commercialization and representation therein, nor the quality or deliverability of the Intellectual Property/Patents 2012-2013 product themselves. Reproductions of articles or photographs, in whole or in part, contained herein are prohibited without 66 Grand Rounds express written consent of the publisher, unless otherwise stated. 68 Published Research 72 Research Grants and Contracts 2012-2013 79 National and International Presentations Message from the Chair The Words of a Mother, the Miracles of Vision and Peace Today Lloyd Williams, MD, John Dau, Alan Crandall, MD, Geoffrey Tabin, MD—South Sudan 2011 Journal entries from the Lost Boys Clinic, South Sudan: Day Three “The team completed 34 cataract surgeries. Patients from all three opposing tribes (the Nuer, Dinka, and Murle) were brought together under the dire circumstances of blindness.” Day Four “The team completed 34 more cataract surgeries. While some spent endless hours in the extremely hot operating room, others offered post-operative care for patients in the blazing sun.” Day Six “The peace initiative was a huge success. Formerly blind patients, their families, and leaders from the warring tribes gathered together in peace to discuss how the sight-restoring surgeries will change their lives. The evening concluded with a group hug between the three tribes, resulting in tears from all.” MIRACLES —Michael Yei, Moran International Division Manager Randall J Olson, MD, Professor and Chair Division of Ophthalmology, SIGHT University of Utah; CEO Moran Eye Center Did you know that by the age of eight, the average child has heard between 13 and 48 South Sudan Peace Circle 2012 million words from his or her mother? Our mother’s words act as a compass as we navigate PEACE through life. When we’re young, we may reject them, but soon we lean on them, recite them, Our first story in this issue is about the Moran Eye Center’s five-year commitment to help cure treatable blindness in 2 3 and eventually live by them. John Moran, our chief benefactor and namesake, can point to the world’s newest, and one of the most violent countries, South Sudan. It is also about peace. It’s about a second words his mother said that changed not only his life but the lives of countless individuals miracle where the leaders of three warring tribes came together in a peace observance with their fellow South F o c u s 2 0 throughout 1 3 the world. Sudanese citizens—regardless of tribal affiliation—who had received the gift of sight. We have now watched this F o c u s 2 0 1 3 extraordinary event take place and, in this issue, you can read about its extraordinary effects on the lives of individuals “When Dr. Olson told me about his dream to carry out research that might someday restore vision to the and the improved situation between the various tribes. blind, it brought to my mind stories my mother read to me as a child,” John says. “As a little boy, I was particularly touched by the stories of the blind beggar, the power of faith, the miraculous restoration of This year, we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the John A. Moran Eye Center. In the appendix of this annual sight, and being kind to our neighbors as well as toward strangers. One of the reasons this building exists is report, we highlight our growth and accomplishments for 2012; but perhaps one of our most extraordinary because my mother planted within me a belief in miracles. Even today, these many decades later, my vision achievements can be found in the evidence from South Sudan—that we are successfully navigating the compass of life’s possibilities is influenced by my mother’s love.” points taught to John Moran by his mother. I’ve told John’s story many times, but it feels especially fitting for this publication as we spotlight our outreach programs. I watch in awe as this simple yet profound story plays out through our local and international charitable programs every day. While I’m confident the devoted researchers at the Moran Eye Center will play a big role in discovering treatments and cures for blinding eye diseases in the near future, until that time Randall J Olson, MD Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology comes, we will bring sight to as many individuals with curable blindness as we can—not sometime in the CEO, John A. Moran Eye Center future, but today. Fulfilling the vision that John Moran’s mother instilled in him as a young boy cannot wait! University of Utah We receive word of these modern miracles of sight restoration through regular updates from our doctors in the field. Here’s an example from our most recent mission to South Sudan. John Dau and Randall J Olson, MD Young South Sudan patient will soon see again Seeing Your Enemy in a Seeing Your Enemy in a New Light Dr. Tabin, John Dau and Dr. Crandall, 2011 South Sudan mission New Hope South Sudanese man needlessly blind from untreated cataract In December 2011, a Moran surgical team was nally able gate South Sudan’s continuing warfare, the Moran team could What can one man and ophthalmologists from the Moran Eye to enter the country, but only under the protection of armed tie future medical missions to peace; Dr. Crandall agreed. e guards. "is was actually our third attempt to go into this Moran team would not return to perform eye surgeries unless Center do to bring peace to South Sudan that United Nations region. Twice we were turned back because of violence, but the warring tribes pledged to assemble together in peace for we persisted,” says Dr. Crandall. a shared eye camp. With this mandate, aer the clinic ended, peacekeepers, diplomacy, and millions of dollars in international those who had been given the gi of sight and their families e rst eye camp was a challenge unlike anything the Moran South Sudan and friends returned home and spread the wonderful news of aid have struggled to do? The answer lies in a simple ten-minute team had ever experienced.