Geoffrey Craig Tabin (born 1956) is the Fairweather Foundation Professor at
Stanford University School of Medicine
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Fra ...
and the co-founder of the
Himalayan Cataract Project
The Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP) was created in 1995 by Dr. Geoffrey Tabin and Dr. Sanduk Ruit with a goal of establishing a sustainable eye care infrastructure in the Himalaya. HCP empowers local doctors to provide ophthalmic care through ...
along with Dr.
Sanduk Ruit
Sanduk Ruit (; ) is an ophthalmologist from Nepal who was involved to restore the sight of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery.
Ruit is the founder and the executive director of the Tilganga Institu ...
.
Education
Dr. Tabin graduated from Yale College where he was a two-time captain of the Yale Varsity tennis team.
After Yale he earned a M.A. in philosophy at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. 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.
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
Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...
in 1983, and in 1990 he became the fourth person to reach the top of the
Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents. On 30 April 1985, Richard Bass became the first climber to reach the summit of all seven.
In January 2023, ''Climbing (magazine), Climbing'' said "Today, t ...
.
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
Bungee jumping (), also spelled bungy jumping, is an activity that involves a person jumping from a great height while connected to a large elastic cord. The launching pad is usually erected on a tall structure such as a building or crane, a ...
.
Career
While mountaineering in Nepal, he was inspired by cataract surgeries performed by a Dutch team. Along with fellow ophthalmologist, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Dr. Tabin founded the Himalayan Cataract Project in 1995 which works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness both by performing surgeries and by training local doctors across 30 countries. As of 2024, HCP has performed over 1.6 million surgeries and trained over 20 thousand Doctors and Nurses.
Personal life
Geoff Tabin is the brother of
Cliff Tabin.
Books
* ''Blind Corners'' (1993)
* ''Corneal Transplantation'' (2002)
* ''Clinical Practice in Small Incision Cataract Surgery'' (2004)
* ''Fighting Global Blindness'' (2006)
References
External links
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1956 births
Living people
New Trier High School alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Yale University alumni
Harvard Medical School alumni
American ophthalmologists
Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
American mountain climbers
Summiters of the Seven Summits
Bungee jumpers