The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, also referred to as the Wilmer Eye Institute, is a component of the

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. Ophthalmologist

William Holland Wilmer William Holland Wilmer (October 9, 1782 – July 24, 1827) was an Episcopal priest, teacher and writer in Maryland and Virginia who served briefly as the eleventh president of the College of William and Mary. Early life and education The fift ...

opened the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1925. Its home was completed four years later. Wilmer received an M.D. degree from the

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in 1885 and worked in New York, Washington D.C., in addition to Baltimore, where he established the institute.

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succeeded Wilmer as director in 1934. The third director,

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succeeded Woods in 1955.

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became the fourth director in 1979.

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became director in 1989. Peter J. McDonnell has been Wilmer's director since 2003.

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