Geoffrey Tabin
Geoffrey Tabin is an ophthalmologist and the Fairweather Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Ophthalmology and Global Medicine at Stanford University[1].
He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Himalayan Cataract Project.[2]
Early Life and Education
Tabin graduated from Yale College where he expanded his climbing experience.[3] As a climber, Tabin was the fourth person in the world to climb to the highest point on all seven continents while pioneering difficult rock and ice climbs on all seven continents including the first ascent of the East Face of Mt. Everest.[4]
After Yale he earned a M.A. in philosophy at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and then his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Tabin completed his ophthalmology residency at Brown University and a fellowship in corneal diseases and surgery at Melbourne University in Australia. He then worked in Nepal with Sanduk Ruit teaching cataract surgery[5].
The Himalayan Cataract Project
In 1995 Tabin and Ruit founded the Himalayan Cataract Project which works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness through high-quality ophthalmic care, education and the establishment of world class eye care infrastructure. In the past twenty-five years The Himalayan Cataract Project has performed over one million sight-restoring cataract surgeries.[6] They have trained more than 200 doctors, from 22 countries, in modern micro-surgical cataract extraction and established training programs for nurses, ophthalmic assistants, doctors learning cataract surgery, ophthalmology residency training program, and ophthalmic subspecialty fellowships to train the teachers of the next generation of eye surgeons in low and middle-income countries.[7] Tabin and Ruit and their work are the subject of the book “Second Suns,” (Random House 2013) by New York Times bestselling author David Relin.[8]
Accomplishments
Tabin is a leader in both the national and international ophthalmic community. He is a member of the International Education Committee for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and teaches a course on cataract surgery at both the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.[9]
He is a recipient of numerous awards including Dalai Lama's 2009 "Unsung Hero of Compassion" Award[10] and the ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award in 2021.[11]
Tabin is the author of “Blind Corners – Adventures on 7 Continents” (Lyons Press 2002) as well as four Ophthalmology text-books including “Fighting Global Blindness” published in February 2006 by the American Public Health Association Press. Tabin has published more than sixty peer reviewed academic articles and book chapters. He has been featured on multiple television programs including 60 Minutes, ABC News with David Muir, National Geographic Television, Discovery Channel, PBS, NPR as well as being a guest on Late Night with David Letterman and “That's Incredible” for the invention of Bungy Jumping.[12]
References
- ↑ "Geoffrey Craig Tabin, MD's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Geoff Tabin, MD Co-Founder of HCP". www.cureblindness.org. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Video: Dr. Geoff Tabin: Achieving the Impossible | LAI". www.leadingauthorities.com. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Dr. Geoff Tabin, Himalayan Cataract Project | This Is Capitalism". This is Capitalism presented by Stephens Inc. 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Dr. Geoff Tabin Co-founder of Himalayan Cataract Project". Explorer's Club. Explorer's Club. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Kristof, Nicholas (2020-11-21). "Opinion | Choose a Gift That Changes Lives". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Doctors team up to stop preventable blindness". Fox News. 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ Okie, Susan (2013-06-14). ""Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives" by David Oliver Relin". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ "Geoff Tabin | Bio | Premiere Speakers Bureau". premierespeakers.com. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ "How is one man working to eradicate blindness in developing countries? Find out at Case for Sight's Distinguished Lecture April 19". The Daily. 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ "2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award Announcement". ascrs.org. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ "Geoff Tabin: The Invention Of Bungee Jumping". WGBH. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
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