Geoff Tabin

Geoff Tabin
Born
Geoffrey Craig Tabin

(1956-07-03) July 3, 1956 (age 68)
Glencoe, Illinois
Education
ParentJulius Tabin
Awards
Website

Geoffrey Craig Tabin (born 1956)[9] is the Fairweather Foundation Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine[10] and the co-founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project along with Dr. Sanduk Ruit.[11][12]

Education

Dr. Tabin graduated from Yale College where he was a two-time captain of the Yale Varsity tennis team.[13]

After Yale he earned a M.A. in philosophy at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.[14] Dr. Tabin received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School before completing his ophthalmology residency at Brown University and a fellowship in corneal diseases and surgery at Melbourne University in Australia.[15][16]

Adventuring

Dr. Tabin is an avid mountaineer who has made many first ascents, including being part of the first ascent of the Kangshung Face of Mount Everest in 1983, and in 1990 he became the fourth person to reach the top of the Seven Summits.[17]

While at Oxford, Geoff Tabin, along with members of the Oxford Dangerous Sports club, came up with the idea for, and then performed the world's first Bungee Jump.[18][19]

Career

While mountaineering in Nepal, he was inspired by cataract surgeries performed by a Dutch team.[20] Along with fellow ophthalmologist, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Dr. Tabin founded the Himalayan Cataract Project in 1995[21][22] which works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness both by performing surgeries and by training local doctors across 30 countries.[23] As of 2024, HCP has performed over 1.6 million surgeries and trained over 20 thousand Doctors and Nurses.[24]

Personal life

Geoff Tabin is the brother of Cliff Tabin.

Books

  • Blind Corners (1993) [25]
  • Corneal Transplantation (2002) [26]
  • Clinical Practice in Small Incision Cataract Surgery (2004) [27]
  • Fighting Global Blindness (2006) [28]

References

  1. ^ "2024 Annual Benefit Gala Awards". 26 February 2024. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ "HCP Co-Founder Wins Prestigious Alpine Award". Archived from the original on 7 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Geoff Tabin, MD, and Sanduk Ruit, MD, selected for 2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award". March 2021. Archived from the original on 30 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Geoffrey Tabin (2017) - George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award".
  5. ^ "Geoff Tabin Speaking Fee, Schedule, Bio & Contact Details". Archived from the original on 4 August 2024.
  6. ^ "New International Division of Ophthalmology". 30 August 2011. Archived from the original on 30 December 2024.
  7. ^ "American Academy of Ophthalmology Announces Recipients of Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award". Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
  8. ^ "Geoff Tabin Speaking Fee, Schedule, Bio & Contact Details". Archived from the original on 4 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Geoff Tabin | Net Worth, Education, Family & Career". 15 January 2022. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Geoffrey Craig Tabin, MD | Stanford Medicine".
  11. ^ "History". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Geoff Tabin, MD". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024.
  13. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20241230015826/https://yalebulldogs.com/services/download_file.ashx?file_location=https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/yalebulldogs.com/documents/2020/4/29/Team__Records_by_year.pdf
  14. ^ "The Mountaineering Opthamologist, Doctor Geoff Tabin". 12 January 2017. Archived from the original on 19 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Geoffrey Craig Tabin, MD | Stanford Medicine".
  16. ^ "Geoffrey Craig Tabin, MD's Profile | Stanford Profiles".
  17. ^ "2024 Annual Benefit Gala Awards". 26 February 2024. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024.
  18. ^ "No Barriers Podcast Episode 132: Restoring Vision with Geoff Tabin | No Barriers, USA". Archived from the original on 6 December 2021.
  19. ^ "The Mountaineering Opthamologist, Doctor Geoff Tabin". 12 January 2017. Archived from the original on 19 May 2024.
  20. ^ "Geoff Tabin, MD". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024.
  21. ^ "Fact-Checking Relin's New Book 'Second Suns'". 9 May 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022.
  22. ^ "Fact-Checking Relin's New Book 'Second Suns'". 9 May 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022.
  23. ^ "Our Work". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024.
  24. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20241203233037/https://cureblindness.org/
  25. ^ Tabin, Geoff (1993). Blind Corners: Adventures on Seven Continents. ICS Books. ISBN 978-0-934802-03-1.
  26. ^ Vajpayee, Rasik B.; Sharma, Namrata; Tabin, Geoffrey C. (2002). Corneal Transplantation. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7179-974-9.
  27. ^ Fry, Luther L.; Garg, Ashok; Guitérrez-Camona, Francisco; Pandey, Suresh K.; Tabin, Geoffrey (14 October 2004). Clinical Practice in Small Incision Cataract Surgery. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-84184-467-1.
  28. ^ Ruit, Sanduk; Tabin, Geoff; Wykoff, Charles C. (2006). Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision Through Cataract Elimination. American Public Health Association. ISBN 978-0-87553-067-3.

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