Medical Advisory Board

Dimitri Azar, MD, Chair and Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Ophthalmology

James Clarke, MD Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Peter Egbert, MD, Stanford Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology; Director, Stanford Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory; Director, Cataract Service

Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke Glaucoma Service

Robert Ritch, MD, Shelley and Steven Einhorn Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology; Chief, Glaucoma Service; Surgeon Director, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY; Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY; Medical Director and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, The Glaucoma Foundation; member, Advisory Committee to the International Council of Ophthalmology

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

Geoffrey Tabin, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Director of Division of International Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah; Co-Founder and Co-Director of Himalayan Cataract Project

Shachar Tauber, MD, Director of Ophthalmology Research Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, St. John's Hospital and Clinics

Seth Wanye, MD, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

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