Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer opened the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1925. Its home was completed four years later. Wilmer received an M.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1885 and worked in New York, Washington D.C., in addition to Baltimore, where he established the institute.[1]Alan C. Woods succeeded Wilmer as director in 1934. The third director, A. Edward Maumenee succeeded Woods in 1955. Arnall Patz became the fourth director in 1979. Morton F. Goldberg became director in 1989. Peter J. McDonnell has been Wilmer's director since 2003.[2][3][4][5]
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^Parker, Walter R. (1936). Dr. William Holland Wilmer. Vol. 34. American Ophthalmological Society. pp. 20–23. PMC1315552. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Wilson, John; Hughes, Sally Smith; Maumenee, A. Edward (2016-05-10). The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at the Johns Hopkins University and the Stanford Medical School: Oral History Transcript. BiblioLife. ISBN978-1-356-23421-9.