Board of Directors
Co-Director Geoffrey Tabin, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Director, Division of International Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Utah, USA.
Co-Director Sanduk Ruit, MD, Medical Director, Tilganga Eye Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Richard Litwin, MD, Private Practice Ophthalmologist, San Francisco, USA.
Matthew Oliva, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Division of International Ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University and Private Practice Ophthalmologist, Oregon, USA.
Randall Olson, MD, Professor and Chairman; Director, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Utah, USA.
Hugh Taylor, MD, Professor, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. Vice President, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
Further Background on Board Members
More on Co-Director Geoffrey Tabin, MD
More on Co-Director Sanduk Ruit, MD
Richard Litwin, MD
- Dr. Litwin at the Mechi Zonal Hospital in Nepal in 1982.
Dr. Dick Litwin trained at the University of California San Francisco and currently runs a private ophthalmology practice in Berkeley, California. Dr. Litwin has dedicated his career and life to improving eye care in the world. He has taught cataract surgery in Asia for more than 30 years. In the 1980’s he worked to help establish the Aravind Eye Institute in India, one of the finest eye care facilities in the developing world. He was the first person in Nepal to perform cataract surgery using a lens implant. He has been working with Dr. Ruit since 1985. Dr. Litwin is a pioneer in the establishment of modern eye care in India, Nepal and in other countries in which Tilganga and the Himalayan Cataract Project operate.
Matthew Oliva, MD
- Dr. Oliva with a patient in Ethiopia.
Dr. Oliva is Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of International Ophthalmology at Casey Eye Institute and Oregon Health Sciences University and a private practice ophthalmologist in Medford, Oregon. He is also an associate medical director for SightLife Eye Bank with a focus on international eyebank development and eliminating corneal blindness worldwide. As a fellowship-trained corneal surgeon, he specializes in surgical and medical treatments of the anterior eye. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Washington and a fellowship in corneal diseases/corneal transplantation/and refractive surgery in Melbourne Australia at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He has a special interest in international cataract and corneal blindness and travels several times a year to the Himalayas and Africa to perform surgeries and teach resident physicians.
- Dr. Olson
Randall Olson, MD
Dr. Olson is Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Director of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. He is one of the most respected and noted ophthalmologists in the country with a practice focused on all areas of cornea and external disease, as well as other anterior segment disorders. He has a special interest in intraocular lens related complications.
Hugh Taylor, MD
- Dr. Taylor
Doctor and Professor Hugh Taylor won the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology for humanitarian service. He has held many positions in the World Health Organization program against blindness, and is currently the Asian and Pacific Coordinator for the WHO project called Vision Twenty-Twenty, designed to eliminate treatable blindness by the year 2020. Taylor is the former medical director of the Fred Hollows Foundation and was a professor and director of the Dana Center for International Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School before returning to his native Australia. He is the most widely published ophthalmologist in Australia. His research into the second and fourth causes of world blindness, trachoma and onchocercasias, has earned him a prestigious reputation in the field of international ophthalmology.
- Dr. Taylor doing an eye exam.
See also:
- Taylor's interview in article called "Tackling Trachoma"
- "Eye Care: Dollars and Sense" [PDF, 117Kb], the 63rd Edward Jackson Lecture by Hugh R. Taylor AC MD