It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…flying hospital? This World Sight Day, we asked Orbis Canada’s Dr. Hunter Cherwek your questions about the world’s first and only flying eye hospital! 

About the Speaker

Dr. Hunter Cherwek is the Vice President of Clinical Services at Orbis International, the Flying Eye Hospital and a global ophthalmologist with a specific career interest on how training and technologies can be used to eliminate avoidable blindness in low-resource communities around the world.

Dr. Hunter Cherwek received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill and his medical degree from Duke University. After his transitional year at Scripps Hospital, he completed his residency in ophthalmology at Emory University, where he was elected Chief Resident. Immediately upon graduating from Emory, Hunter joined Orbis International, where he was able to lecture and work in over 20 countries aboard the Flying Eye Hospital and help build the organization’s award-winning telemedicine platform, Cybersight.

After working with Orbis International, he was based in Beijing, China, for six years, working with Alcon as the Medical Director of Strategic Markets to help improve surgical training efforts and access to quality cataract care in Asia and Russia. Most recently, Dr. Cherwek has returned to Orbis International to continue to support its clinical training efforts and patient care programs as Vice President, Clinical Services and Technologies.