Eyeworld

the ASCRS Foundation's International Division convened a series of virtual update meetings on COVID-19's impact on humanitarian eyecare ef- forts. Discussions centered on the Foundation's Ethiopian Master Trainer Initiative and how best to conduct the annual ICO Board Review Course held each year in Addis Ababa. All six of Ethiopia's residency directors participated, sharing advice on how they've adapted educa- tion and training within their programs during the pandemic period. The Foundation continues to recognize those leaders whose work advances global ophthalmology. We were proud to celebrate 99-year-old Lowell Gess, MD, as the 2020 Chang Humanitarian Award Recipient. Dr. Gess earmarked the $50,000 award to the Lowell and Ruth Gess Eye Hospital in Sierra Leone, where the funding will be used to expand facilities and provide a more complete eyecare program. In October, the Foundation announced it will rename the award, the Chang-Crandall Human- itarian Award, in recognition of the late Alan Crandall, MD's, exemplary life and commitment to charitable service. The Foundation remains steadfast in its commitment to delivering educational and inno- vative experiences to promising young ophthal- mologists. Ten Resident Excellence Awards and five Young Eye Surgeon International Service Grants were made as a means to improve access to education and help inspire a lifelong commit- ment to humanitarian eyecare. All of this has been possible through your support. You've enabled our many patients to experience joy, independence, and stability at a time when these things are in short supply. Thank you for your belief in the mission and for standing with us as we look with optimism to better days ahead. continued from page 8 The ASCRS Foundation is grateful for the following practices and organizations who have completed one or more charitable surgeries through Operation Sight in 2020. Operation Sight, the Foundation's U.S.-based charitable cataract surgery program, serves financially vulnerable, uninsured, and underinsured Americans, who cannot afford or access care. We are proud of our volunteers, who are changing lives, and we are grateful for their unwavering philanthropic commitment to our mission and to the ophthalmology community. • American Eye Surgery Center • AMSURG • Beach Eye Medical Group • Berkeley Eye Center • Bloomington Eye Institute • Boling Vision Center • Cabarrus Eye Center • Cedar Run Eye Center • Center for Sight • Central Florida Eye Specialists • Chesapeake Eye Care and Laser Center • Chu Vision Foundation • Clayton Eye Center • Cornerstone Charitable Clinic • Dean McGee Eye Institute • Eye Associates of Tallahassee • Eye Consultants of Atlanta Foundation • Eye Institute of West Florida • Eyecare Medical Group • Eye Specialty Group • Eye Specialists of Mid-Florida • Eye Surgeons of Nebraska • Eye Surgeons of Richmond • Florida Eye Clinic • Fry Eye Associates • Gailey Eye Clinic • Georgia Center for Sight • Georgia Eye Clinic • Hamilton Eye Institute Surgery Center • Hawaiian Eye Foundation • Houston Eye Associates Foundation • I Care San Antonio • John A. Moran Eye Center • Kansas University Eye Center • Key-Whitman Eye Center • Kirby Eye Center • Kremer Eye Center • Levenson Eye Associates Inc. • Loden Vision Centers • Medical Eye Center • Minnesota Eye Foundation • Montgomery Eye Physicians • Nevada Eye Surgery • Northwest Eye Specialists • Operation Access • Operation Sight SC • Orange City Surgery Center • Orange County Eye Associates • Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation • Outpatient Surgery Center of Boca • Price Vision Group • Professional Eye Associates • Raleigh Eye Center • Short Hills Ophthalmology • Southwest Retina Consultants • St. Louis Mission Cataract Foundation • St. Luke's Cataract & Laser Institute • Surgeons for Sight • Surgery On Sunday • The SurgiCare Center of Utah • Vance Thompson Vision • Vision Foundation • Virginia Beach Eye Center • Virginia Eye Consultants • West Texas Eye Associates • Wichita Vision Institute For more information: www.ascrsfoundation.org

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