On May 22, 2013, the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center was opened. The Truhlsen Eye Institute combined state-of-the art diagnostic medicine with the latest advances in clinical research to bring hope to patients suffering from blinding eye diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, corneal dystrophies, uveitis and other ocular inflammatory diseases.

The institute was named after legendary Omaha ophthalmologist Stanley M. Truhlsen, M.D., who was affiliated with UNMC for more than 40 years and made the lead gift on the facility.