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Stay up to date on the latest breakthroughs in our field, cutting-edge research, and patient success stories. Learn how we realized our dream in the latest Vision magazine.

Hartwick College Silicon Valley Experience Participants Visit All May See

In March, ten students - along with Professor Carli Ficano and director of planned giving, Patricia Dopazo - from Hartwick College’s Silicon Valley Experience program, visited All May See Foundation at the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision.

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Yippee Mackenzie is Cancer Free!

All May See Foundation was honored to join little Mackenzie Fredeen and her family at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital for her bell-ringing ceremony. We've followed Mackenzie on her cancer journey in our 2020 and 2021 Vision magazine stories.

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Alejandra de Alba Campomanes, MD, MPH, Recipient of UCSF Exceptional Physician Award 2023-2024

Join us in celebrating the remarkable achievements of Alejandra de Alba Campomanes, MD, MPH, as she receives the prestigious Exceptional Physician Award for the year 2023-2024! Dr. de Alba Campomanes is a pediatric ophthalmologist and a Professor of Ophthalmology, embodying a strong advocacy for equitable patient care.

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World Health Day 2024

World Health Day is commemorated each year on April 7th and marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. This year’s theme is My health, my right. The theme for this year was selected to advocate for universal access to quality healthcare, education, and information, alongside access to safe drinking water, unpolluted air, nutritious food, adequate housing, fair employment conditions, environmental well-being, and freedom from discrimination, regardless of location.

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All May See Foundation President Deborah Chesky attends Vision Research Funding Partnership Event

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) and more than 35 other organizations convened this week in Washington, DC for the Vision Research Funding Partnership event. This high-level meeting brought together leaders of organizations that fund vision research to think collectively about how to best support scientific research related to vision and the eye.

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Join us in celebrating National Doctors’ Day on March 30th

We celebrate the dedication, compassion, and skill of our doctors at UCSF Department of Ophthalmology and Francis I. Proctor Foundation. Help support these remarkable individuals by making a donation in honor of National Doctors’ Day advancing vision research and education.

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UCSF School of Medicine Receives Unrestricted Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB)

The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine has been granted an Unrestricted Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) in the amount of $115,000 a year to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology.

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Highlights from The UCSF Department of Ophthalmology – #9 Vision Center in the Country

High National Rankings Once again, ophthalmology at UCSF was named the best in Northern California and among the top 10 vision care programs in the nation in the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Survey.

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UCSF Ophthalmology launches – Vitalizing Vision with Art (VIVA)

Madeline Yung, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at University of California, San Francisco is spearheading a new art pilot project entitled - Vitalizing Vision with Art (VIVA).  The mission of the project is to illuminate the human experience of vision disease.

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UCSF Opens World’s First Center for Gould Syndrome!

A news story featuring how Dr. Douglas Gould's work lead to the opening of the world's first center of excellence to help families of children with Gould Syndrome is featured on UCSF's News!

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ARVO Foundation names 2024 winners of Dr. David L. Epstein Award

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation announced today the 2024 recipients of the Dr. David L. Epstein Award: Yvonne Ou, MD (mentor) and Tyson Kim, MD, PhD. They will be granted an $100,000 award to support a collaborative project related to glaucoma.

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2024 Gould Syndrome Research Challenge Launching on Rare Disease Day (2/29)

We're thrilled to announce a new challenge to raise $200,000 to support Gould Syndrome research, beginning on Rare Disease Day on February 29 and continuing until Gould Syndrome Awareness Day April 12, 2024.

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