In this special crossover episode, Eyeluminaries hosts Jim Mazzo and John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, are joined live by Susan MacDonald, MD, and Cathleen McCabe, MD, at Eyecelerator 2024 in Chicago, IL.

• Intro :07
• Welcome to the Eyeluminaries podcast 3:14
• In this episode 5:02
• Intro of Susan MacDonald, MD, and Cathleen McCabe, MD 5:11
• What started you on this journey to do humanitarian work? 5:30
• MacDonald discusses the role of parents in defining of happiness. 10:56
• Hovanesian discusses the background of his humanitarian work in Armenia. 11:36
• What about the funding of these humanitarian projects? 12:50
• What are your stories from doing humanitarian work? 14:11
• What advice to do you have for physicians who want to get involved in humanitarian work? 18:55
• Hovanesian discusses the commonalities in MacDonald and McCabe’s humanitarian missions. 22:23
• McCabe discusses the commonalities in Hovanesian and MacDonald’s humanitarian missions. 22:50
• MacDonald discusses how her humanitarian work began. 23:28
• Thank you. 27:05
• MacDonald talks about the ophthalmic industry and their contribution to humanitarian work. 27:51
• McCabe discusses ways physicians can get involved in humanitarian work without having to travel overseas. 28:42
• Visit ACE Global, Cybersight or Operation Sight to get involved. 28:54
• Mend the Gap podcast 30:49
• Preview of episode 30 32:17
• Give us your feedback 32:44
• Thanks 33:17
• Thoughts 33:27
• Visit the ASCRS Foundation to get involved in Operation Sight. 34:20
• Thank you for listening! 35:17
• Don’t forget to like and subscribe to Mend the Gap and Eyeluminaries! 35:39

John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, is a faculty member at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute and in private practice at Harvard Eye Associates in Laguna Hills, California.

Susan MacDonald, MD, is president of Eye Corps and associate clinical professor at Tufts School of Medicine.

Jim Mazzo is an ophthalmic industry veteran with over 40 years as CEO/chairman of both public and private companies, including Allergan, Avellino Labs, Carl Zeiss, Neurotech Pharmaceuticals and AMO. Additionally, he is an advisor for Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners and sits on numerous industry boards such as MDMA.

Cathleen McCabe, MD, is chief medical officer of Eye Health America and medical director of The Eye Associates in Sarasota, FL.

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Disclosures: Hovanesian consults widely in the ophthalmic field. Mazzo reports being an advisor for Anivive Lifesciences, Avellino Labs, Bain Capital, CVC Capital and Zeiss; executive chairman of Neurotech, Preceyes BV and TearLab; and sits on the board of Crystilex, Centricity Vision, IanTech, Lensgen and Visus. MacDonald and McCabe report no relevant financial disclosures.