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Ex-Starbucks Exec Helps Develop Global Eye Banks


Some 10 million people suffer from corneal blindness. It's relatively rare in the U.S., and if you have it, you're likely to have a corneal transplant and your vision will be restored. But in the developing world, where most corneal blindness occurs, it's a different matter.

Now, a Seattle-based nonprofit is applying lessons learned in the coffee business in its efforts to bring sight to as many people as it can.

Tucked away in a downtown Seattle office building is one of the largest eye banks in the world. It's run by an organization called SightLife. It finds organ donors, collects the corneas from the newly deceased and prepares the tissue for surgery.

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 Ex-Starbucks Exec Helps Develop Global Eye Banks

Some 10 million people suffer from corneal blindness. It's relatively rare in the U.S., and if you have it, you're likely to have a corneal transplant and your vision will be restored. But in the developing world, where most corneal blindness occurs, it's a different matter.

SightLife

With strategic partners in over 30 countries, SightLife is expanding access to the full range of corneal health services that patients need, when and where they need them.

Cornea Research Foundation of America

Serving as a world-class research and educational organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of vision. "We give people back the use of their eyes."

NHS

At Organ Donation we are doing everything with one focus - to save or improve the lives of thousands of people every year through organ transplantation.

Larry Wall's Cornea Transplant Diary

It seems to be fashionable to keep a diary of your experiences if you have a cornea transplant, so I guess I'd better get with it. But first, a bit of history.

StatPearls

Corneal disease ranks as the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world. Keratoplasty is the most common and successful transplantation in humans with the first transplant completed in 1905.

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