The gift of eye donation helps doctors and researchers preserve, enhance, or restore vision.
Minnesota Lions Eye Bank hosts two Donor and Family Recognition Programs each year, usually at the O'Shaughnessy Education Center at St. Thomas University in Saint Paul. Welcomed are donor families, cornea recipients, physicians, researchers, Lions club members, and other friends of the eye bank.
Annually, more than 1,000 Minnesotans give the gift of sight by becoming eye or cornea donors. Each of these donors has a family who supports eye donation and assists the eye bank to make donation happen. The recognition service honors donors and thanks donor families. Of special honor at these services are donors from the past year.
Programs include: talks by a donor family member, a cornea recipient, and an ophthalmology research scientist; music; readings; and a Donor Memorial Slide Show.
Donor and Family Recognition Programs are made possible by grants from the Minnesota Lions Vision Foundation and private donations from Lions and friends of the eye bank.
For more information, contact:
Jodi Altenhofen
Community Services Liaison
Direct Line: 612-624-0446
Toll-Free: 1-866-887-4448
Email: magnu007@umn.edu