The Orbis Future Vision Leaders is a collective of university and medical students, ophthalmology postgraduate trainees and alumni from across Canada who are passionate about eye health. The goal of the Orbis Future Vision Leaders is to create an engaged and inspired community of students and recent graduates who want to network, learn, share and exchange ideas – all while building awareness and raising funds to support Orbis’s sight-saving work around the world.
Orbis Future Vision Leaders
The Orbis Future Vision Leaders is an exciting new initiative from Orbis Canada designed specifically for Canadian university and medical students, ophthalmology postgraduate trainees and alumni who are passionate about eye health and supporting Orbis in our fight to end avoidable blindness globally.
About Orbis Future Vision Leaders
Become a Member
Are you a university or medical school student, postgraduate trainee or recent grad with a passion for eye health and a desire to help others? Do you want to network, exchange ideas and learn from eye health professionals with years of international experience? Join the Orbis Future Vision Leaders and you can help change the way the world sees.
Join Orbis Future Vision Leaders
Membership with the Orbis Future Vision Leaders offers a number of unique and interactive opportunities for students and recent graduates to pursue their passion for eye health, while making a real difference for the 1.1 billion people living with vision loss and blindness around the world.
Orbis Speaker Series
Featuring our world-renowned Volunteer Faculty and medical/clinical staff, the Orbis Speaker Series explores Orbis’s sight-saving work, as well as the latest from the fields of ophthalmology, global eye health and international development.
Network & Connect
Become part of a truly international community of students and eye health professionals all learning, sharing and working together to change the way the world sees.
Fundraising & Awareness Events
Join together with hundreds of other members from universities across Canada to build awareness and raise funds in support of Orbis’s sight-saving work.
Join the Orbis Future Vision Leaders Today
Join NowThe Orbis Future Vision Leaders is a community that empowers and inspires the next generation of eye health professionals to become champions of Orbis’s vision. Like Orbis, this community of students and trainees believe no one should ever live a life of blindness or visual impairment simply because of where they were born.
Meet Dr. Dominique Geoffrion
Dominique is President of the Orbis Future Vision Leaders. She is training as a medical doctor and scientist at McGill University in Montreal, where she is pursuing her MDCM degree. Passionate about eye health and novel discoveries in ophthalmology, Dominique conducted her PhD in artificial corneal transplantation.
To learn more about Orbis Canada and the Orbis Future Vision Leaders, or to find out if your university already has an affiliated Orbis Future Vision Leaders' chapter, click here.
If you have any other questions, please contact:
Clare Szalay Timbo
Orbis Canada
Email address: [email protected]
Address: 192 Spadina Ave, Suite 421
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
