Organisation: Cure Blindness Project
Location: USA

Each year, Cure Blindness Project sponsors one ophthalmology resident for a global medicine fellowship with Stanford’s Byers Eye Institute. Spending most of the year in Asia and Africa with Dr. Geoff Tabin, fellows shift focus from personal training to serving others—building skills, forging collaborations, and creating lasting global impact.

Each year, one exceptional ophthalmology resident is invited to complete a one-year post-graduate clinical training subspecialty in global medicine sponsored by Cure Blindness Project. The fellowship in partnership with the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford exposes young surgeons to challenges most likely not previously encountered in the United States.  

Selected participants spend two-thirds of the year working in Asia and Africa alongside Stanford Professor and Cure Blindness Project co-founder, Dr. Geoff Tabin. 

“An interesting phenomenon occurs when you start a global ophthalmology fellowship. While the focus of the trainee in all other realms is primarily, almost solely, on the quality of their training, in global ophthalmology the focus shifts to what the trainee will do for others—global partners, residents abroad, and others,” says Dr. Sean Collon, who recently completed his global fellowship.  

The fellowship exposes and encourages residents to pursue uncharted paths and establish new collaborations for maximum unique impact.  

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