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Humanitarian “The work we do improves the life of the patient. We gain new friends; we always learn from other cultures. It keeps me humble and happy to know I’m helping to make a difference.” —AL AN S . CR ANDALL , MD
The founder and senior medical director of Moran’s Global Outreach Division, Crandall began his now-legendary outreach work in Kumasi, Ghana, more than two decades ago. He traveled there in response to a request from a longtime patient who had family ties in that region. She told Crandall about the lack of ophthalmologists and the dire need for eye care, including curable blindness from cataracts, and asked him to do what he could to help. True to his nature, he said, “OK, let’s do it.” “Alan has dedicated his career to humanitarian service, and his loving, generous spirit permeates all that he 10
does,” said renowned cataract surgeon and American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Foundation Co-Chair David Chang, MD, in awarding Crandall the inaugural ASCRS Foundation Chang Humanitarian Award. “The list of places where Dr. Crandall has given his time and skill is long and varied, including Ghana, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Nepal, India, China, Guatemala, Tonga, Haiti, Micronesia, and Cuba, as well as regular service on the Navajo Nation,” said Chang. “The nature of these outreach efforts is as impressive as the list itself.”
