Dr Van Lansingh to receive the 2017 Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award

 

Thanking PAAO for this recognition, Dr. Lansingh said, “For me, this reflects a true spirit of cooperation and education. I work in several capacities, primarily as HelpMeSee’s Medical Officer and also with the IAPB and with the ICO as Director of Advocacy, as well as serving on the board for several ophthalmology organizations. My efforts are to get many organizations working together towards one common goal: making blindness a thing of the past.”

 

Announcing the award, Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D., PAAO President and Chairman of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami, said, “The Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award could not be going to a more deserving person.  Dr. Lansingh has dedicated his life to community service, prevention of blindness programs and other humanitarian activities.  The Bascom Palmer family is extremely proud of Dr. Lansingh where he serves as a voluntary assistant professor of ophthalmology.”

From 2004 through 2015, Dr. Lansingh served as the regional coordinator in Latin America for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and the VISION 2020 Programme.