The WVU Eye Institute is West Virginia’s premier center for trusted ophthalmic care, education, and research. Our nationally recognized doctors specialize in diabetic eye disease, retinal detachments, macular diseases, and much more. From routine eye exams to specialty services, our teams ensure patients in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and surrounding areas have access to the region’s principal vision health center.
For more than two decades, the WVU Eye Institute has continued to build upon its solid foundation of excellence in patient care, clinical research, and education.
We’re committed to shaping the future of vision health in West Virginia and beyond. Investing in the WVU Eye Institute enables our clinicians and scientists to combat vision-threatening diseases and give the gift of sight to many West Virginians and residents of surrounding states.
Your financial support helps meet pressing clinical needs and aid groundbreaking research, as well as providing means to care for patients regardless of their ability to pay. Your gift is an investment in better health outcomes.
We are grateful for your support. It ensures the WVU Eye Institute can do more than otherwise possible. Here are ways you can give to support our work and the people we serve:
WVU Eye Institute Building Fund (2W1980): On Jan. 24, 2025, WVU Medicine broke ground on a new WVU Eye Institute. A new building will more than double the clinical space necessary to meet vision care and science needs across West Virginia and its expanding healthcare footprint. Growth is needed to meet increasing patient need, expand residency and fellowship training capacity, support translatable clinical and basic research, and strengthen on-site surgical care. Gifts to the WVUEI Building Fund will support facility buildout and equipment needs, growth in graduate medical training, and key outreach from the Morgantown campus into clinical satellites across the state and region.
WVU Eye Institute Resident Education Fund (2W251): Training young doctors to become clinical ophthalmologists is one of the defining purposes of the WVU Eye Institute. The cost to train an ophthalmologist can be as much as $250,000 over four years. The opportunity to build a growing, committed core of physicians who choose to make their careers in West Virginia or at WVUEI is imperative given our state’s prevailing realities. Giving to support the professional development needs of our residents can have long-term benefits.
WVU Eye Institute Greatest Needs Fund (2U165): Financial support is critical to the vitality and health of our WVU Eye Institute. Your generous contributions to our Greatest Needs fund help meet unexpected needs that arise, provide the flexibility to allocate funding to our highest priorities, and turn challenges into opportunities.
Children’s Vision Rehab Program (2W242): The Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Program opens doors to independence for blind and visually impaired children across West Virginia. By providing life-changing vision care, adaptive tools, and educational support—regardless of a family’s ability to pay—CVRP helps children overcome barriers, succeed in school, and build the foundation for a productive, independent future.
