 Dr. Suresh R. Chandra is the Founder and Chairman of the Combat Blindness Foundation (CBF). A Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin, he did his Retina Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Chandra has been Principal Investigator of DRS, ETDRS, MPS, COMS, CAPT, and AREDS, supported by the National Eye Institute. He has authored 134 publications and 9 book chapters.
Dr. Chandra has received numerous awards for his humanitarian work. He received the American Academy of Ophthalmology “Honor Award” in 1990 and “Outstanding Humanitarian Award” in 1996. In that same year, he also received the Association of Asian Indians in Ophthalmology “Outstanding Humanitarian Award.” Dr. Chandra was honored to receive the “Dr. Nataraja Pillai Award” by the Vitreoretinal Society of India in 2003, the “Syalma Bhaskaran Oration Award” at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad and “P. Shiva Reddy Oration Award” by the Andhra Pradesh Society of Ophthalmology in 2004. He has twice been awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship Award by Rotary International. Dr. Chandra has received commendation by Wisconsin Governors Tommy Thompson and Jim Doyle for his dedicated efforts to eliminate blindness in developing countries.
In addition, Dr. Chandra is a counsel member of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, a global joint initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). The goal of Vision 2020 is to eliminate avoidable blindness worldwide by the year 2020 in order to give everyone the Right to Sight.
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