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St. John's Eye Specialist to present at Harvard
Nov. 3, 2004
Shachar
Tauber, M.D., director of eye research at St. John's, will
be a guest speaker at the Unite for Sight second annual International Conference
at Harvard University April 2-3, 2005.
Unite for Sight is a national nonprofit organization that empowers communities
worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
The International Conference is for health professional students, doctors,
professors, public health professionals, nurses, patients, philanthropists,
volunteers, and leaders in ophthalmology, public health, academia, corporations,
and policy.
Dr. Tauber, who is on Unite For Sight's Medical Advisory Board, is a leader in
refractive surgery. He participated in clinical research supporting the FDA
approval of LASIK for correction of hyperopia. He was Visiting Fellow in
advanced techniques in refractive surgery in Venezuela, and served as an
observational fellow in cornea and external disease at Massachusetts Eye & Ear
Hospital.
Dr. Tauber was invited to educate ophthalmologists at the 1998 Global
Ophthalmology Conference in China and at Tamil Nadu Medical University in India
in 1999.† He was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Corneal
and Refractive Surgery Service at Yale University before coming to St. John's.
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