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International Outreach
D o c t o r r e a s o n L o c a t i o n D a t e
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Teaching and Medical mission Trinidad Tobego February 19-24
Balamurali Amba, M.D., Ph.D. ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Surabaya, Indonesi a March 8-25, 2012
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Outreach Medical Mission Nepal April 2-16, 2011
Robert Hofman, M.D. Medical Mission Ghana April 2011
Sonya Dhar, M.D.(fellow)
Karen Bourke, M.D.(fellow)
Balamurali Amba, M.D., Ph.D. Keynote: Sight for the Sightless Pune, India April 2011
Global Vision Conference Teaching
surgical procedures
R. Michael Dun, M.D. LDS Church Medical Mission Tonga April 28May 7, 2011
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Outreach Medical mission and Ethiopia May 1-3, 2011
hands on Surgical Training
Lloyd Williams, M.D. (Chief Resident) Medical Mission Zambia August 2011
Bala Amba, M.D., Ph.D.
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Medical Mission Tanzania August 8-12, 2011
Alan Crandall, M.D.
Jef Peey, M.D. (Fellow) Medical Mission Kathmandu, Nepal November 2011
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Medical Mission Kolkata, India November 25-28, 2011
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Medical Mission Paro, Bhutan November 28December 3, 2011
Bradley Katz, MD Idiopathic Opc Neuris Kathmandu, Nepa December 3-7, 2011
(Geofrey Tabin, MD) Cranial Nerves Palsies-Third and Sixth
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Speech: The World in 2012 Hong Kong December 8-9, 2011
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Medical Mission Rwanda December 10-13, 2011
Alan Crandall, M.D. Medical Mission Kenya December 10-13, 2011
Geofrey Tabin, M.D.
Geofrey Tabin, M.D. Medical Mission Sudan December 14-22, 2011
Alan Crandall, M.D.
Lloyd Williams, M.D. (Chief Resident)
Though his parents and siblings ha
incurable blindness, eight-year-old
fnds new ho pe when his sight i s re
Human
itarianMissions
Ater ve years o persistence, preparations and obtainingpermissions, a team o Moran Eye Center surgeons including Drs Georey
Tabin, Alan Crandall, and Lloyd Williams, (Chie Resident) and Moran
medical technicians taxied along a bumpy unpaved air strip, 8,000 miles
rom home they had landed in the newest country in the world. Looking
out a small, dusty window rom their cramped prop plane, they could see
the aces o the greeting party rom the Duk Payeul region o South Sudan.
They looked a little suspicious, like they might be thinking: Can these
doctors really cure our loved ones o their blindness?
Ater al l, these people had never been vi sited by an eye doctor. Yet, soon
all their doubts would be erased. Only six days later, when the Moranmedical team let on that same small plane, more than 200 o their
riends and loved ones would be healed o their blindness.
The soul is healed by being with children.English Proverb
I will now be able to go to school
and take care o my amily
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One o the villagers was Mayak,
a thin, eight-year-old boy whohad recently developed advanced
cataracts in both eyes. His parents
and siblings were even worse o -
they were aicted with incurable
blindness. And with South Sudans
average per capita income less thanone dollar per day, Mayak and his
blind amily were in sur vival mode.
His aunt and her children
Hi everybody. Greetings rom Duk countySudan. We are in an amazi ng primitive vill age with
thatched huts underneath a spectacular Sudan sky.
We are staying in tents. The only tin roo is on the
clinic where we are operating. We have done more than
sixty surgeries so ar. Amazing pathology with lots o
blindness. No phone electricity or running water but
we have satellite Internet. All else is well, Geof.
Dr. Geoff Tabin, Director, Division of International
Ophthalmology, Moran Eye Center. Satellite email early
in Morans six day mission to South Suda n
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Sudanese lost boysJohn Dau, one o three leaders o the orphaned Sudanese lost boys,established the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in 2007. In 1987 John Dau, along with
thousands o young boys, ed war-torn Sudan seeking reuge in Ethiopia. The
lost boys walked over a thousand miles bareoot without sufcient ood or
water. John eventually ound his way to America and has made it his lies
mission to help the people o Sudan receive a better chance at lie. Partnering
with the John Dau Foundation has given the Moran Eye Center an opportunity
to come one step closer to reaching their goal o alleviating the blindness in
the developing world and providing sustainable eye care to those in need.
Dr. Alan Crandall and Dr. Georey Tabin, Co-Directors o the Morans
International Ophthalmology Division, were introduced to John in 2006. Both
doctors committed to John to come to South Sudan to help alleviate the
growing number o blindness, but because o continued conict and instability,
the initial humanitarian mission was put on hold until this past year. Additional
missions to Sudan in cooper ation with Mr. Dau are planned in 2012 and 2013.
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Less than 40 miles rom where we were,tribal warare was waging. Forty people were
killed and 16 children were taken into slavery
just while we were there.
the orphaned Sudanese Lost Boys.
Mr. Dau ed the violent Sudanese
civil war and journeyed on oot
or ve years, struggling against
extreme dangers and violence to
reach the UN reugee camp in
Kenya. His organization is nowhelping children throughout Arica,
including children in this war torn
region o South Sudan. South
Sudan is one o the poorest places
on the planet, says Dr. Tabin. They
have 10 million people and not a
single native eye doctor.
Patients traveled great distances
or days in 100 degree weather toget to this makeshit clinic where
they were treated in or cataracts,
glaucoma, river blindness, andtrachoma. One typical blind woman
walked 80 miles clutching a st ick
held at the other end by her 8-year-
old grandson who led the way. Shed
been totally blind or six years, Dr.
Crandall said. She literally could
see nothing. She had never seen
her one-year-old granddaughter,
o whom she is sole caregiver.
Ater the surger y she sang, danced,and prayed with thanks or the
opportunity to see her children and
granddaughter.
The Moran team could hear gunreringing in the night air. This was
actually our third attempt to go
into this region, said Dr. Crandall.
Twice we were turned back because
o violence. Less than 40 miles rom
where we were, tribal w arare wa s
raging. Forty people were killed and
16 children were taken into slaveryjust while we were there.
Conditions during the day were
not ideal either. In the makeshit
surgery room, large bats and insects
would constantly y around
they operated. One night, th
generator went out while I w
doing surgery, said Dr.Willi
I ended up doing the case in
complete black room with julittle head lamp. I had a bat h
in the arm. Dr. Crandall said
actually liked the bats. They
care o the huge bugs and ie
would land on us and our pa
Dr. Tabin, a veteran o litera
dreds o medical missions w
wide had this to say, Hands
this years South Sudan miss
the most difcult situation w
been in. It was the most isolaneglected, and visually impacountry Ive ever visited. Yet
met brave souls like Mayak, n
the team is complaining.
literally struggled daily to help
them stay alive.
While medicine could do nothing
or the rest o his amily, Moran
surgeons were able to perorm
successul cataract surgery on both
o Mayaks eyes. Beore surgeryhe could only see blurry shadows
right in ront o his ace. When he
took o his bandages the ollowing
day, he could see everything. He
immediately jumped up and proudly
announced, I will now be able to go
to school and care or my amily!
Not only was Mayaks sight
restored, his lie was saved. There
are 28 million people in the
developing world who suer rom
preventable blindness. Due to loss oproductivity and liestyle challenges,
blindness lowers lie expec tancy or
children in this region to 1-2 years.
This Moran InternationalDivision mission to Sudan was
coordinated through world-renown
humanitarian John Dau, ounder o
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