TRIPS AND EVENTS
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JACK McHALE VISITS VISIONARIES, APRIL 2016
Visionaries: A Day of Student Achievement
The annual NECO event gathers the College community to celebrate student accomplishment and community impact.
Photo (left): The journey with Orbis begins with Jack McHale.
Jack McHale, former President of Orbis International, attended Visionaries 2016 to encourage NECO students to share their optometric skills. He told students, “You have the opportunity to make a difference both in your community and the world.”
LAUNCH OF THE MD-10 FLYING EYE HOSPITAL, JUNE 2016
Photos: Vero Image
FLYING EYE HOSPITAL PROGRAM SHENYANG 沈阳 CHINA, SEPTEMBER 2016
Photo (left): The Shenyang 2016 Orbis optometry team.
Photo (below left): Watching a surgery in 3D on the Flying Eye Hospital
Photo (below right): Volunteer Faculty, Gary Chu, discussing a patient case with optometry trainees
ORBIS VISITS FOR VISIONARIES, APRIL 2017
Visionaries: A Day of Student Achievement.
In 2017, Visionaries focused on international health care and optometry's global impact.
Photo (left © 2017 Marilyn Humphries): Dr Danny Haddad speaking with second year students about the impact of working in global health
Posters (below): Global Health Expo posters showing students the impact of Orbis International
HOSPITAL BASED PROGRAM KITWE ZAMBIA, MAY 2017
Photo (left): Kitwe Central Hospital trainees with Volunteer Faculty, Sarah Wassnig, and Obris Africa coordinator, Lucy Nadaf.
Photos (below): Kitwe Central Hospital trainees practicing their new techniques and discussing patient cases.
THE OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNING, AUGUST 2017
Photo: Orbis CEO, John "Bob" Rank (left), and NECO President, Clifford Scott (right), sign a Memorandum of Understanding in New York, making the Orbis-NECO partnership official!
FLYING EYE HOSPITAL PROGRAM YAOUNDÈ CAMEROON, OCTOBER 2017
Photo (left): Yaoundè Central Eye Hospital bus dropping off trainees for the day at the new Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute.
Photos (below): Yaoundè Central Eye Hospital trainees practicing their new techniques and discussing patient cases.
HOSPITAL BASED PROGRAM SHENYANG 沈阳 CHINA, NOVEMBER 2017
Photo (left): He Eye Hospital, Dr Gayathri Srinivasan demonstrating binocular vision techniques to trainees
Photo (below, left): He Eye Hospital trainees with Dr Qing Lu, Orbis Beijing, and NECO Volunteer Faculty, Dr Gayathari Srinivasan.
Photo (below, right): He Eye Hospital trainees practicing their new techniques with patient cases.
FLYING EYE HOSPITAL CHITTAGONG চট্টগ্রাম BANGLADESH, NOVEMBER 2017
Photos (left and below): NECO Volunteer Faculty, Dr Alexis Malkin, with the Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Centre (CEITC) low vision trainees practicing their low vision techniques.
Photos (left): Dr Malkin lecturing live on the Flying Eye Hospital
Missed it? Click here to watch the lecture on Cybersight!
HOSPITAL BASED PROGRAM MORADABAD मुरादाबाद INDIA, DECEMBER 2017
Photos (left): NECO alumni and Volunteer Faculty, Dr Jennifer Liao, demonstrating specialty contact lens fitting to Moradabad trainees.
Photo (below left): Dr Liao presenting a lecture to Moradabad practitioners.
Photo (below right): Dr Liao with trainees and the Moradabad vision van.
HOSPITAL BASED PROGRAM SHENYANG 沈阳 CHINA, JUNE 2018
Photos (above): NECO alumna and Volunteer Faculty, Dr Nicole Ross, presenting the latest knowledge on low vision to He Eye Hospital doctors.
Photos (left and below): Dr Ross working with local doctors to assess children with low vision.
