Our mission & vision
Mission: Improving quality of life for people with dry eye disease
i.e. Ocular Surface Diseases, Ocular Surface Pain
Restoring hope
Dry eye disease takes a toll—functionally, emotionally, and financially. This means providing hope and help along the way through our community services and educational programs.
Redefining disease
As we begin to understand our disease differently, we can communicate about it more effectively - individually and as a community.
Reshaping the future
Today’s approaches are not meeting today’s, let alone tomorrow’s, needs. We want to innovate educational, mentorship, and health care delivery pathways that serve our community.
Read more about our vision, below.
Our vision: Making our community’s voices heard.
By and for our community
We see a new paradigm for dry eye care that identifies and addresses what we patients want and need: improvement to our symptoms and quality of life, not just the clinically measurable signs of disease that doctors, scientists, industry and regulators have historically prioritized.
Our programs keep us in conversation with our community’s needs and experiences. We want to use our unique position to bring the patient perspective to stakeholders in medicine, industry, and regulation.
In recent years, we’ve uncovered industry trends that need to be addressed. We promise to fight hard for the safety of our dry eye and scleral lens patients.
We seek
To start conversations.
To listen and learn.
To help our community understand and document its predicament and needs.
To provide and expand services that help shepherd patients safely through the most physically, emotionally and financially challenging phases of their experience.
To improve access to the information, advice, resources and tools we all need to see more comfortably more of the time.
To effectively communicate our needs to the doctors, the industry and regulators who can all be part of solutions.
To raise the bar in eye care and in advocacy.
