30 Duke Eye Center News and Notes 2020

S. Grace Prakalapakorn, MD, MPH (left) with colleagues and the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital in Hue, Vietnam. Photo by Geoff Oliver Bugbee/Orbis

GLOBAL MISSIONS

S. Grace Prakalapakorn, MD, MPH, participated in an Orbis mission trip in Hue, Vietnam, where she conducted a Pediatric Ophthalmology Workshop as part of a three-week flying eye hospital program. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, once a cargo plane, is used as a teaching facility where doctors, nurses and medical technicians have received training onboard from some of the best ophthalmologists, nurses and biomedical engineers in the world. S. Grace Prakalapakorn, MD, MPH Leon W. Herndon, Jr., MD

Prakalapakorn also volunteered through the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) Faculty Exchange program with partner hospital Tianjin Eye Hospital in Tianjin, China. She spent time lecturing, seeing patients and held hands-on workshops for local pediatric ophthalmologists. Faramarz Hidaji, MD

Leon W. Herndon, Jr., MD, participated in a Cure Glaucoma Foundation Medical Mission trip in Lagos, Nigeria in Feb, 2019. The team lectured to over 100 ophthalmologists, and performed more than 100 glaucoma surgical procedures. Faramarz Hidaji, MD, recently completed a mission trip with Healing the Children in the Dominican Republic where 25 strabismus surgeries were performed. Lloyd Williams, MD, PhD, continues to be active in international ophthalmology and humanitarian work. He is the founder and chair of the board of HelpMercy International. HelpMercy International is focused on bringing light to the world through curing blindness in Sierra Leone and bringing clean water and health care to Man’Gunza Zambia.