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Bausch
& Lomb Diversity Speakers Series Features International
Eyecare Activist
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1974, Nag Rao came to the United States with a plan
to further his medical education, create a successful
ophthalmology practice and one day return to his native
India to help the blind and visually impaired.
After
achieving those goals, he has now turned his attention
to the effort to eliminate preventable blindness by
2020. As the featured speaker at the Bausch & Lomb
Diversity Speaker Series, sponsored by the South Asia
Employee Network, Dr. Rao outlined his strategy to a
standing-room-only crowd at the Optics Center.
"The
strategy has essentially three pillars," says Dr.
Rao. "One is to control the diseases that cause
most of the blindness in the world and at the same time,
work toward developing a broad human resource base to
make it possible to provide the necessary infrastructure
to realize success and active participation of the community."
As
president-elect of Vision 2020, a collaborative effort
of the World Health Organization and the International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness - and the group
to which B&L recently donated $1 million Dr. Rao
acknowledged our company's long heritage of perfecting
vision and enhancing life. "We are delighted and
privileged that Bausch & Lomb is first corporate
patron at the time of the celebration of their 150th
year," said Dr. Rao. "Together, let us hope
that by 2020, we will have a world free of all avoidable
blindness and we can have one more celebration at that
time."
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