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Wilmer Eye Institute

Cornea, Cataract and External Disease

The Division of Cornea, Cataract and External Diseases provides medical and surgical evaluation and management for corneal, cataract, and external disease problems, including corneal transplantation, cataract surgery, dry eye, and laser vision correction.

  • Our Cornea Experts

    Meet the renowned team of cornea experts who will help find the treatment that is best for you.

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  • Our Cornea Research

    Research efforts are aimed at improving the diagnosis, management and treatment of corneal and external diseases.

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Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic

This specialized team is dedicated to providing cutting-edge diagnostic testing and procedure-based treatments for the medical management of dry eye disease across multiple Wilmer locations.

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Conditions We Treat

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Henry's Story

By age 18, Henry Harten was legally blind, the result of a rare genetic disorder. Meet Henry and the team whose careful collaboration allowed him to see the world clearly for the first time.

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In the NewsPartnering to Restore Sensation

Until recently, people with neurotrophic corneas could receive treatment for symptoms but not for the root cause. That changed with a Johns Hopkins collaboration between Wilmer and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

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Dr. Fasika Woreta in the Wilmer operating room

Latest News

  • Woreta is Recipient of Inaugural ABMS Research Award

    Fasika A. Woreta, M.D., M.P.H., the Eugene de Juan, MD Professor of Ophthalmic Education, is a recipient of an inaugural research grant from the American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation for her work on "Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Oral Board Examiners of Surgical Specialties."

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  • Parikh, Shekhawat Win Discovery Awards

    Kunal Parikh, Ph.D. and cornea faculty member Nakul Shekhawat, M.D., M.P.H., the Stephen F Raab and Mariellen Brickley-Raab Rising Professor of Ophthalmology, won two Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards for their work on projects titled "Eliminating Cataract-related Vision Loss Through a New, Artificial Intelligence-based Screening Modality" and "Preventing Blindness Using AI-enabled, Point-of-care Diagnosis of Corneal Infections." The awards were among 44 given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across eleven units of Johns Hopkins.

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