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created on: 9/10/2025
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Geoffrey "Geoff" Tabin (born July 3, 1956 in Glencoe, Illinois, USA) is an eye surgeon, professor and mountain climber resideing in Vermont, USA.
When he was a 23-year-old Marshall scholar studying philosophy at Oxford University in England, he joined a group of fellow students addicted to dangerous sports such as bungee-jumping off of British bridges.
One jump led Tabin to more thrills, and pretty soon he was learning to climb cliffs, then Swiss mountains, and finally -- stealing time from medical school and graduate training as a physician -- Mount Everest lured him in 1988. It has kept him coming back to the region ever since.
In cataracts, a growing cloudiness of the eye's lens leads ultimately to blindness. Tabin learned that they were by far the leading cause of blindness throughout the Himalayan region. Thousands are afflicted in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim.
He left the mountains, completed a three-year residency in ophthalmology at Brown University, and flew to Australia, where the Fred Hollows Foundation was training nurses as well as physicians in the simplest and least expensive ways to treat eye diseases.
He left the mountains, completed a three-year residency in ophthalmology at Brown University, and flew to Australia, where the Fred Hollows Foundation was training nurses as well as physicians in the simplest and least expensive ways to treat eye diseases. It cost less than $15, and he was treating more than 100 patients a day.
Tabin adapted the method and over the next year, he says, he treated cataracts successfully in nearly 3,000 patients.

He contributed to Playboy magazine in the 1980s covering dangerous sports.

He later became the Fairweather Foundation Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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on : 09/10/2025