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Global Sight Alliance and the ASCRS Foundation has a close partnership with Geoff Tabin, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, and the Himalayan Cataract Project whose work in Nepal was greatly affected by the recent earthquake. Below is an email we received updating us on the progress that is underway. We encourage Read more:

Dr. Sui Chien Wong joined the team of EyeCare Project Physicians in 2014, when the London-based ophthalmologist got a call from the EyeCare Project's Founder Dr. Roger Ohanesian. Dr. Ohanesian shared with Dr. Wong the overwhelming number of babies in Armenia who were going blind due to a Read more:

Start: 15th June 2018 Type: Seminar Description: Globally, there are 37 million people blind. 80% of this blindness is avoidable. Major efforts have been undertaken in the past 20 years to tackle this burden of blindness and vision impairment throughout the world. The UK has a strong and long Read more:

I attended the Handling Eyes Together Conference this weekend in Fort Worth TX and couldn't be more glad I did. When I first saw the email about the conference, I thought I've been meaning to follow through with medical missions after going to Camp Diego October 2013 where I did 11 MSICS Read more:

The chief of ophthalmology at Gondar is Dr. Yared Assefa, an excellent clinician and surgeon. Yared is a resourceful and capable leader who has built his eye department from scratch during the past decade. More recently he oversaw construction of a freestanding eye hospital that can accommodate a Read more:

David F. Chang, MD says that of all the challenges we must overcome in reversing the rising backlog of cataract blindness in the developing world, the most formidable is the dire shortage of properly trained cataract surgeons. Fortunately, a number of international centers have demonstrated the Read more:

This summer, two newsworthy developments are providing Himalayan Cataract Project with substantial mainstream publicity. At the 35th annual Telluride Mountain Film Festival, the documentary "Duk County" won two of the top three awards - the Vaughan Indomitable Spirit Award and the Moving Mountains Read more:

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February 26, 2013

INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO REDUCE CATARACT BLINDNESS IN DEVELOPING WORLD HAS PROMISE, NEEDS TO BE TESTED, RAND STUDY SAYS

Use of high-fidelity simulators to train cataract surgeons in developing nations could dramatically cut the prevalence of blindness around Read more: