Prevent Blindness has declared its sixth annual Inflammatory Eye Disease (IED) Week as October 19-25, 2026. To provide patients, care partners, and health care allies with expert-approved educational resources on inflammatory eye diseases, Prevent Blindness is offering a dedicated webpage, shareable social media graphics, downloadable fact sheets in English and Spanish, and multiple expert and patient-testimonial videos. 

New this year, Prevent Blindness introduced the educational video, Uveitis: A Closer Look. This resource includes easy-to-understand information on the disease, including uveitis basics, causes, symptoms, treatment options, and more.

Prevent Blindness ASPECT patient engagement program participant, Lindsay, shares her patient journey in Pars planitis (Peripheral Uveitis): Lindsay’s Story. Parsplanitis, also referred to as peripheral uveitis, causes inflammation of the pars plana.

Additional videos from the Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Expert Series include: 

• Uveitis and Inflammatory Eye Diseases featuring Steven Yeh, MD, professor and Stanley Truhlsen Jr. Chair of Ophthalmology, Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Yeh is also a volunteer on the Prevent Blindness Public Health and Science Committee.  

• Inflammatory Eye Disease with Ann-Marie Lobo-Chan, MD, MS, associate professor, codirector of the Uveitis Service, and director, Uveitis/Medical Retina Fellowship, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine.

• Thyroid Eye Disease and Mental Wellness with Dr. Prem Subramanian, MD, PhD, neuro-ophthalmologist with the UCHealth Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center.