Andrew Bastawrous: Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
安德鲁·巴斯塔劳斯: 用智能手机来做次眼科检查吧
Andrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people. Full bio
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例如肯尼亚,
或者是可以提前预防的。
我和我年轻的家庭,
我们训练了一个团队。
为人们提供眼科检查服务。
traditional hospital equipment,
昂贵又不易维护的
跨越语言,年纪的障碍
通过应用程序和眼动仪
we've learned in the field,
分享诊疗数据是极其重要的,
这和他们有什么关系。
连接到智慧型手机,
任何人都能轻松操作它。
超过2500人,
needed to deliver health care.
提供备用电源。
为他们提供治疗,
可能永远也不会来寻求治疗的病人。
anyone with minimal training.
仅需短期少量训练即可。
选择感兴趣的病例。
他们的位置也很清楚地显示在这里。
或者是当地领袖
我们恢复了她的实力。
失明就是失明了。
以及身体疾病
却无法将治疗提供给患者。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Bastawrous - Eye surgeon, inventorAndrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people.
Why you should listen
Andrew Bastawrous is cofounder and CEO of Peek Vision, a social impact organization that uses smartphone technology to radically increase access to eye care in some of the most challenging places in the world. Bastawrous is also an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) and Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Peek's vision app, Peek Acuity, is being used to transform eye health in more than 150 countries. The organization ran one of the top-ten all-time Indiegogo crowd-funding campaigns in the health sector -- for Peek Retina, a smartphone ophthalmoscope -- and was voted "best social-impact start-up in Europe" by Google and McKinsey in 2016. All prize money has been re-invested in Peek.
Bastawrous is working with astrophysicists to crowdsource retinal data; with National Geographic explorers to reach isolated communities; and with artists and activists to advocate for eye care globally. He and his wife Madeleine have established a social enterprise healthy bakery in Kenya that provides employment, with profits paying for eye care.
In 2018, Bastawrous was invited to deliver the Commonwealth Address in the presence of the British Royal Family, where he announced the creation of a new one-billion-dollar Vision Catalyst Fund -- a new vision for international aid.
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