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2011 Year-End Update: A letter from Co-Director Geoff Tabin and CEO Job Heintz reflecting on HCP in 2011.
Snapshots of 2011: Highlights of 2011 achievements with images, anecdotes and accomplishments.
HCP in South Sudan
A December eye care workshop in South Sudan, where 300 eye surgeries were performed, has earned a variety of media coverage. See the South Sudan eye care articles, photos and TV coverage.
- Dr. Tabin on Park City TV.
- Dr. Tabin on Plum TV.
Recent videos featuring Dr. Geoff Tabin
Park City Television aired a 13-minute interview (watch the video here) on January 4 with HCP Co-Director Dr. Geoff Tabin, who discusses his international work and recent eye care workshop in South Sudan.
An award-winning video by Plum TV features Dr. Tabin speaking about eradicating blindness and remembering his high-altitude adventures. Watch this video.
After speaking at Mountainfilm in Colorado this summer, Dr. Tabin also sat for a video interview with the editor of Outside Magazine. Watch this and other videos.
HCP News and Events
Faculty exchanges in Ethiopia
Recent activity at Quiha Zonal Hospital, Gondar University and Arbaminch Hospital in Ethiopia.
Refractive Surgery Unit opens in Nepal
HCP Advisory Board member Dr. Dan Reinstein of London Vision Clinic Foundation (LVCF) traveled to the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology to participate in the soft launch of the new Refractive Surgery Unit.
HCP featured on Philanthroper.com, where “a little helps a lot!”
HCP was featured on the Philanthroper.com on January 31. The site shines a spotlight on important nonprofits and their work, and encourages small donations.
HCP visits partner in Ghana
HCP staff met with partners at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to discuss collaborative efforts dedicated to eliminating curable blindness in northern Ghana.
HCP in the Media
Recent Headlines
New Dr. Geoff Tabin interview on Park City Television
HCP's Dr. Geoff Tabin discussed his international work during a 13-minute interview with Park City Television.
The Jakarta Globe – “Famed Eye Surgeon Turns Sights on Indonesia”
A feature story on Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Co-Director of HCP, describing how the doctor is working on surgical missions and training in Indonesia.
NPR reports on HCP Affiliated Institution, Aravind Eye Hospital
NPR broadcast a report on the Aravind Eye Care System, in Madurai, India. It's a HCP Affiliated Institution with over 300,000 surgeries per year.
UNMC shines spotlight on affiliated ophthalmologist Dr. Mike Feilmeier
Dr. Mike Feilmeier has worked alongside Dr. Geoff Tabin and he's initiated an international division at University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Highlights
National Geographic Adventure magazine featured Dr. Geoff Tabin and his work with HCP in a cover story called "The Visionary" in its December 2009 issue
TIME magazine wrote about HCP and co-director Dr. Geoff Tabin in its article called “A Global Coalition of Good”
Reader’s Digest published a profile of HCP co-director Dr. Sanduk Ruit when the publication named him “Asian of the Year 2007” (PDF, 267Kb)
National Geographic Explorer Television and its host Lisa Ling followed the HCP team into mountain villages in Nepal for an episode called “Miracle Doctors.”
Outside magazine featured HCP's challenging work in Nepal in “The Light of Seven Mountain Suns”
Video Clips
“Out of the Darkness” selected to be screened at an international film festival
“Out of the Darkness” is an independent documentary that features HCP Co-Directors Drs. Sanduk Ruit and Geoff Tabin returning to Dr. Ruit’s home village in western Nepal to provide critical direct care and training. The team from Tilganga trekked for four full days to reach the village.
The Documentary Edge Film Festival in New Zealand has selected the film to be one of the 50 screened at their festival in early 2011. The beautiful trailer is now available online and will be submitted to additional international film festivals in the coming year. The film is an independent film by Stefano Levi.
Click on the image to the right to watch the trailer on the “Out of the Darkness” website.
Dr. Geoff Tabin interview: In early-January, 2012, Dr. Tabin speaks with Park City Television about his international work and recent eye care workshop in South Sudan.
Dr. Geoff Tabin's mission: In the Plum TV video above, Dr. Tabin speaks about his work to eliminate uneccessary blindness and his high-altitude adventures.
Interview with Dr. Geoff Tabin: After speaking at Mountainfilm in Colorado in the summer of 2011, Dr. Tabin sat for an interview with the editor of Outside Magazine.
Care and training in Kenya: In the Toronto Star video above, HCP International Fellow Dr. Matt Bujak conducted eye surgeries and training in Kenya in July 2011.
High-Volume Workshop in Ethiopia: Above, post-operative exams at Quiha Zonal Hospital in Mekelle in May 2011.
Mobile Eye Camp in Nepal: Dr. Sanduk Ruit, co-director of Himalayan Cataract Project and medical director of the Tilganga Eye Centre in Kathmandu, was featured in a Aljazeera news report in December 2010.
HCP Video by Serac Films: Above, the life of an elder in Nepal is turned around through cataract surgery.
Eye Care in Ethiopia: In the two videos above, HCP coordinates eye care camps and brings change to the lives of villagers in Ethiopia.
Eye Care in Nepal: Dr. Paul Yang of the John A. Moran Eye Center recently traveled to Nepal as a Freeman Fellow with support from the HCP. He participated in an Outreach Microsurgical Eye Clinic (OMEC) in Hetauda at the Community Hospital that HCP supports. Dr. Yang created a short video documenting the cataract program.
National Geographic Explorer: In this clip from "Miracle Doctors," Dr. Geoff Tabin shows Lisa Ling the rustic schoolhouse that is being transformed for eye surgery. See more NGE video clips.
Publications
Academic Articles from HCP Authors
“Age-based comparison of successful probing in Nepalese children with nasolacrimal duct obstruction”
Published in Orbit in 2010.
“Refractive error, strabismus and amblyopia in congenital ptosis”
Published in the Journal of Nepal Medical Association in 2010.
“Ocular morbidity among orphanages”
HCP Co-Director Dr. Ruit was a co-author of this article published in the Journal of Nepal Medical Association in 2010.
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