title: Jules Stein, MD: Ophthalmologist, Entertainment Magnate, and Advocate for Vision.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the lifetime activities and accomplishments of Jules Stein, MD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Assessment of published and unpublished biographical material.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Jules Stein combined his love of music and medicine with organizational skills to achieve successive careers as a musician, an ophthalmologist, an entertainment magnate, and an advocate for vision. To preserve vision, he founded Research to Prevent Blindness, founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and led a multiyear campaign to establish the National Eye Institute.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With successive careers and extraordinary achievements, Jules Stein created an enduring legacy of benefits to ophthalmology, vision research, and the prevention of blindness.
authors.affiliation: Jules Stein Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: straatsma@jsei.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Bradley R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Straatsma
authors.affiliation: Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York.
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Weeks
mesh_terms: D037921:Gift Giving; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014785:Vision, Ocular