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About Dr. Geoff Tabin
Biographical Sketch for Geoffrey Tabin, M.D.
Dr. Geoff Tabin is a Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Himalayan Cataract Project. Geoff was a former Associate Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology at the University Of Vermont College Of Medicine. He was the fourth person to climb the “7 Summits,” the highest point of all seven continents; and has pioneered difficult technical rock, ice, and mountaineering routes on all seven continents including the East Face of Mt. Everest. He is the author of, “Blind Corners– Adventures on Everest and the World’s Tallest Peaks” published by Lyons Press in October 2002
 
Dr. Tabin is a graduate of Yale College, Oxford University (on a Marshall Scholarship) and Harvard Medical School. He completed a general surgery internship at The University of Colorado Hospitals, a residency in ophthalmology at Brown University and a corneal fellowship at Melbourne University in Australia. He then spent a year teaching eye surgery in Nepal. In 1994 he co-founded the Himalayan Cataract Project which strives to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the Himalaya through high quality ophthalmic care, education, and establishment of a world-class eye care infrastructure.
To learn more about Dr. Tabin and the Himalayan Cataract project, please visit the website: http://www.cureblindness.org
Below is a tralier of the film "Light of the Himalaya". The film is based on Dr. Tabin and other amazing doctors' work at the Himalayan Cataract Project. It was produced by the award-winning filmmaker Michael Brown. Enjoy!
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Light of the Himalaya
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A moving story of giving back where it counts from award-winning filmmaker Michael Brown. At the heart the most formidable mountain range on earth lives a gracious people who suffer from the highest rates of cataract blindness on the planet. The North Face athlete team joins eye surgeons from Nepal and America in hopes of making a difference. This spectacular film follows the doctors' work on the Himalayan Cataract Project all the way to the summit of a 21,000-foot Himalayan giant.
Light of the Himalaya is a trenchant, inspiring story that combines the allure of mountaineering with the vitally important efforts to cure the epidemic of cataract blindness afflicting the people who inhabit one of the world's most scenic mountain regions. This is adventure filmmaking at its finest: bold, engrossing, important, and relevant to the rapidly globalizing world we all share. -- Nick Heil
Rush HD and The North Face present a Serac Adventure Films production
cast Dr. Geoff Tabin, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Pete Athans and Conrad Anker
music by Kip Keupper director of photography Michael Brown narrator BD Wong
director Michael Brown writer Mitchell Scott producer David D'Angelo
executive Producers: Greg Moyer, Mark DeAngelis and Rob Faris
BUY A DVD and contribute to the Himalayan Cataract Project, $18 of each purchase is donated and is enough to fund one sight restoring cataract surgery. |
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