ORBIS UK appoints Robert Walters as new Chairman

Governance | 1 Aug 2008

ORBIS UK has appointed consultant ophthalmologist Robert F. Walters, FRCS, FRCOphth, DO, as the new Chairman of its Board of Trustees. ORBIS UK is an affiliate of ORBIS International, a non-profit, global development organisation whose mission is to eliminate avoidable blindness worldwide.

Robert Walters has been involved in the governance and management of ORBIS UK as a member of the Board since 2003. He has also been an ORBIS volunteer surgeon since 1994, participating in programmes to India, Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Myanmar, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Robert's next assignment as an ORBIS volunteer will take place this August when he will participate in a week-long teaching programme in Vietnam. He will train local doctors to carry out specialist paediatric eye surgery to correct squints.

Robert is a consultant eye surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He serves as examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in London and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is also a trustee of the Cardiff Eye Research and Therapeutic Trust and the author of three books on the causes of blindness. Past appointments include Regional Adviser for Wales on behalf of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Clinical Director of Cardiff Eye Unit at the University Hospital of Wales.

In addition to his appointment as Chair of ORBIS UK, Robert Walters has also been appointed as a member of the board of Directors of ORBIS International.

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