Dr. Geoff Tabin Helping Blind Ethiopians See

Eye surgeon and founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project, Dr. Geoff Tabin, travels to Ethiopia to help 700 to 1,000 blind patients see. 40 million people are blind around the world but for three out of four of them, it is reversible. Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world and Dr. Tabin performs a simple cataract procedure he perfected with a fellow doctor. One of these procedures can be completed every seven or eight minutes. 

Dr. Geoff Tabin is a medical visionary, humanitarian, accomplished mountain climber, professor of ophthalmology and global medicine, and co-founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP), a non-profit organization working to eradicate preventable blindness in the developing world. A graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Tabin is known for working with HCP co-founder and Nepalese eye surgeon, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, to develop and implement a revolutionary cataract surgery in the developing world that reduced costs from roughly $200 to $25 per procedure. Since its founding in 1995, the Himalayan Cataract Project has become a leader in international health innovation based on its unrivaled model in eye care and, together with its partners, has serviced more than 5.2 million patients from 16 countries including Nepal, Ethiopia, and Rwanda—providing more than 750,000 reparative surgeries to individuals suffering from curable blindness in those regions.