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Vision Excellence Awards: Christian Garms

Christian Garms

Christian Garms is an ex-President of IAPB and also headed CBM before that. Mr Garms showed extraordinary leadership spanning 20 years; first as a convenor of the 5th General Assembly in Berlin; a board member as the representative of CBM; founding chairman of the Task Force for Prevention of Blindness; and finally during his tenure as IAPB President; and of his pivotal role in the creation of ā€œVISION 2020: The Right to Sightā€ initiative and collaboration with the World Health Organization. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his services at the IAPB 9th General Assembly in Hyderabad, India.