Eye services at Duke are provided by the Duke Eye Center. Established in 1973, the Eye Center is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art eye care to the more than 130,000 patients we serve each year.

The Duke Eye Center seeks to preserve and restore the sight of present and future generations by continuing to provide the highest quality and most complete health care to our patients, by developing new knowledge and skills, and by passing on our knowledge to other health care providers and patients.

Thanks to Duke Eye Center research, education, and technology development programs, our physicians -- and subsequently our patients -- have access to the latest breakthroughs in eye care. Our researchers constantly strive to improve ophthalmic treatments, and they are dedicated to finding cures for blinding eye diseases.

Duke’s Department of Ophthalmology has been ranked eighth in the nation by the 2008 America’s Best Hospitals issue of U.S.News & World Report.