The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled us last year – but we are back this year with a physically distanced, socially cohesive celebration of coming back into the light – in both vision and in pandemic recovery. Please join us in person, or virtually, for our 91st Annual Meeting!
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Deerfield Country Club
507 Thompson Station Road, Newark, DE 19711
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Agenda
Reception
6:00 – 6:45 pm
Dinner
6:55 – 7:30 pm
Annual Meeting
7:30 – 8:00 pm
Business Meeting, voting in 2021-2023 Board Members, passing of the gavel to the new Board President
President’s Award
Executive Director’s Public Health Award
Keynote Speaker: Geoffrey Tabin, MD
Co-founder, the Himalayan Cataract Project.
8:00 – 9:00 pm
Dr. Tabin is a mountaineer, relentless adventurer, pioneering ophthalmologist and visionary. Dr. Tabin is the fourth person in the world to reach the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. His passion for mountain climbing directed him to his professional career in eye care. After summiting Mt. Everest on one of his expeditions, he came across a Dutch team performing cataract surgery on a woman who had been needlessly blind for three years. It was then he understood his life calling.
Dr. Tabin graduated from Yale University, and then earned an MA in Philosophy at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. From there, he took his interest in moral philosophy and health care delivery to Harvard Medical School, where he earned his MD in 1985. After completing an ophthalmology residency at Brown University and a fellowship incorneal surgery in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Tabin returned to Nepal to work with Dr. Sanduk Ruit.
Tabin and Nepalese eye surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit established the Himalayan Cataract Project in 1995 – with a vow to work to eliminate all preventable and treatable blindness from the Himalayan region in their lifetime, a goal, in Tabin’s words, “more audacious than setting out to make the first ascent of the East Face of Mount Everest.” Today, he is Chairman of the Himalayan Cataract Project Board of Directors, and a Professor of Ophthalmology and Global Medicine at Stanford University
The Himalayan Cataract Project has since expanded beyond the Himalayas, and Dr. Tabin spends a considerable part of the year working abroad throughout the Himalayas and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Effective Friday, May 21st, the State of Delaware’s masking and capacity of restaurants restrictions changed. This means that Deerfield Country Club can now operate at full capacity. It also means that those who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask.
By attending this event in person you are certifying that you are fully vaccinated, and we invite you to show your smiling face to the world again if you are comfortable doing so. If you wish to continue to wear a mask that is fine as well.
For those whom these are not options, we invite you to attend the event virtually.
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Virtual Event
The business meeting and keynote address will also be broadcast via Zoom. If you prefer to attend virtually, please register and check back for login information closer to the event.
Zoom will broadcast from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.
If you are having trouble with connecting on the evening, please e-mail ksmith@delamed.org.
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