Global Ophthalmology in the Middle East: a Task Force proposal

Affiliations

¹ Sheba Global Ophthalmology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel. mattanarazi.md@gmail.com.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁵ International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.

Mattan Arazi et al. Eye (Lond). 2024 Aug.

. 2024 Aug;38(11):1986-1987.

doi: 10.1038/s41433-024-03020-5. Epub 2024 Mar 14.

¹ Sheba Global Ophthalmology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel. mattanarazi.md@gmail.com.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁵ International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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