Volunteer

Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD, MHCM, FASCO, has been named president-elect of ASCO and will lead the 2026 to 2027 term.

ASH will honor Judith Kleinerman, MD, with the 2024 ASH Exemplary Service Award during the ASH Annual Meeting.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Carey Powers of Powers & Company highlights volunteer efforts across ophthalmology that are changing patients’ lives for the better.

I do not like, and have never participated in, programs in which outside physicians come in with a team to cure lucky cataract patients in a low-resource country without engaging the local physicians.

Donating time to serve those in need by volunteering abroad can be a personal life-changing experience as well as a meaningful contribution to the health and social well-being of disadvantaged communities.

I made my first trip as a volunteer surgeon to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in 1978.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Andrew A. Kao, MD, discusses the nonprofit Advanced Center for Eyecare and its partnership with Operation Sight.

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective, Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, discusses recent developments for Sight for Life, a nonprofit organization located in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Barb Schreiner, PhD, RN, CDCES, BC-ADM, has seen a lot of changes in diabetes care and education during her career.

Volunteering may protect the brain against cognitive decline and dementia, according to research reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.