The Wilmer Eye Institute 2025 Annual Report

2026-01-14 12:09:08

News from our full member Wilmer Eye Institute Johns Hopkins Medicine

The Wilmer Eye Institute recently released its 2025 annual report, commemorating a landmark year in which the institute celebrated its 100th anniversary. Among the year’s highlights was the 19th annual World Association of Eye Hospitals (WAEH) meeting, which took place in Lausanne (Switzerland), and Paris (France) on October 7-11, 2025. Themes of the meeting included low vision care, innovations in ophthalmology and hospital design, and AI and data in eye health. Wilmer presenters included Rahul Shah, M.H.A., Cathy Kowalewski, M.B.A., Lindsey Schwartz and Megan Ward, M.B.A.

Read the full annual report of 2025 from the Wilmer Eye Institute here.

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