Seizing this moment
Change has been a constant in the 150+ year history of the Emory Eye Center and Department of Ophthalmology. Over the next few years, some of that change will be reflected in the near doubling of our enterprise.
In 2024, Emory Healthcare approved the expansion of our research, clinical services, and teaching space to include an additional 95,000-square-foot building, located in Brookhaven’s Executive Park 59. The newly renovated building will provide an accessible, convenient, and seamless pathway for all of our communities to receive eye care. The additional space will accommodate the latest teaching technology in surgical simulation for our residents and fellows. It will also allow us to meet the increasing demand for translational research, basic scientific inquiry, and new clinical trials – the seeds of truly innovative patient care.
We expect to move into the Emory Eye Center at Executive Park in 2027.
In the meantime, we will continue to invest in people who are ready to seize this moment with us. People like our Vice Chair of Research, Machelle T. Pardue, PhD - a recognized retinopathy and myopia expert in her own right who is actively recruiting some of the best minds in the world to join our Research Division. One of her first recruits, Michael Girard, PhD brings with him an electrifying background in ophthalmic engineering/artificial intelligence, biomedical imaging and ocular biomechanics. What great collaborations lay ahead!
In summary, the future for EEC is very bright. Please join us as a patient, a colleague, a student, or as a friend.
F. Phinizy Calhoun, Sr. Chair of Ophthalmology
Director of the Emory Eye Center