acknowledgments

 
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We are very grateful to the EyeSight Foundation of Alabama for their financial support of The Age-related Macular Degeneration Project and its web site.  A special thanks to Torrey Smitherman, EyeSight’s Executive Director, for her guidance and patience as the web site has unfolded.
 
Our deep appreciation is also extended to the following public and private organizations that support our research activities on AMD:

The National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health
The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health
Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
The International Retinal Research Foundation
American Health Assistance Foundation

We extend a special note of appreciation to both Lanning B. Kline, MD, Chairman of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Robert Rich, MD, PhD, Dean of the UAB School of Medicine for their support of our efforts.

Finally, we were fortunate to have a team of very talented people who helped us create the web site’s content and design.  Many thanks to . . .

Joel Valencia

Joel Valencia for overall site design.

Deidre Seker

Deidre Seker for content development.
Dina Payne

Dina Avery for content development.

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Sloane Bibb of Mindvolt for logo design.
Gregory Jackson, PhD Gregory Jackson, PhD for technical consultation. Lisa Keene
Lisa Keene for information systems support.

For the AMD Project at UAB, we thank you for visiting the site.

Cynthia Owsley, MSPH, PhD
Cynthia Owsley, MSPH, PhD
Principal Investigator
Christine Curcio, PhD
Christine Curcio, PhD
Co-Investigator

Department of Ophthalmology
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham