Hugh Taylor, MD

Board Member Himalayan Cataract Project

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.