With the coming of fall, we are anticipating the opening of the new Jacobs Retina Research Eye Center, the Hamilton Glaucoma Research Center, the Eva Weyland Teaching Library and the Ruth Schulmann Community Ophthalmology offices. I am grateful to our generous donors who have made this possible. Your gifts continue to be crucial to us as we grow our clinical practice; attract new fellows; and, expand our research activity in all our specialty areas.

Our physicians and researchers are producing award winning work and we continue to attract new talent. The challenges of adding space, equipment and dollars to support faculty and fellows are with me each day. Patients travel from all corners of the globe because of the reputation of our outstanding physicians. You can read more about that on page 15.

In addition, our community ophthalmology programs are reaching out to more children and more people with Macular Degeneration. Our efforts to find solutions for their visual challenges are highlighted on pages 3 of this issue of the Viewpoint. I am pleased with the new look for this publication and hope that you join me in that. We look forward to a resurgence of membership in Circle of Sight and to seeing you at our fall events.