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Since its founding in 1908, the Department of Ophthalmology has benefited greatly from the generosity of grateful patients; faithful alumni, faculty, and staff; and humanitarian-minded citizens and service organizations.
Gifts of all kinds have been put to good use throughout the department in the clinics, research laboratories, and classrooms, helping the department increase medical knowledge and offer the best possible care to all in need.
We welcome you to be a part of the future of the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology. If you are considering a gift, below you will find answers to commonly asked questions.
How might my gift be used?
- Purchase research and vision-testing equipment
- Provide residents and fellows with travel stipends to present research papers
- Establish a lecture series
- Support laboratory and clinical research
- Endow a Laboratory/Research Fund ($100,000); Lectureship ($100,000); Fellowship ($250,000); Professorship ($500,000); Senior Professorship ($750,000); Faculty Chair ($1.5 million); or Senior Faculty Chair ($2 million).
- Support expansion of research labs and create an ambulatory surgery center
- Buy ophthalmology textbooks for the library
What are some actual gifts which have been given in the past?
- Optical Coherence Tomograph machine-state-of-the-art equipment used to analyze the retinal nerve fiber layer and used in the diagnosis and study of eye disease
- Letzter Professor of Ophthalmology-first endowed chair in the Department of Ophthalmology, held by Alon Harris, Ph.D.
- Spencer's Ophthalmic Pathology-a 4-volume ophthalmology textbook donated to the Ophthalmology Library Merrill Grayson Chair in Ophthalmology to support vision research in the Department
- Jay C. and Lucile L. Kahn Chair for Glaucoma Research and Education held by Louis B. Cantor, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology
What sort of donations might I make?
- Cash (cash, check, or online credit card). Checks should be made out to the Indiana University Foundation-School of Medicine, and addressed to P.O. Box 660245, Indianapolis, IN 46266-0245. On the check or in an accompanying note, please indicate the purpose of the gift. Credit card gifts may be made on the IU Foundation secure website, accessed by the "Give Now" button on the right of the screen.
- Securities (e.g. stocks and bonds)
- Real Estate and personal property (e.g. books, art, coins)
- Estate bequests and planned gifts (e.g. charitable remainder and lead trusts, life insurance, charitable or deferred gift annuities, pooled income funds, retirements plans, IRAs)
- Pledges (up to 5 years)
What if I don't really have a particular use for my gift? I just want to support education, treatment, and research in eye diseases.
Your gift can help any of the various areas of the Department of Ophthalmology:
- Comprehensive (general) ophthalmology
- Corneal and External Ocular Disease
- Glaucoma
- Neuro-ophthalmology
- Oculoplastic Surgery
- Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus
- Retina and Vitreous Disease
Gifts to our Ophthalmology Gift Fund, Merrill Grayson Chair in Ophthalmology, or the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Research Endowment directly support vision research.
