Two UBC faculty members, Dr. Paul Courtright and his wife Dr. Susan Lewallen, have won the prestigious International Blindness Prevention Award for 2008 from the American Academy of Ophthalmology(AAO).

Restoring Sight, Restoring Lives: Bayush’s Story from Ethiopia
In a rural village in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, 55-year-old Bayush Dires spent most of her life as a hardworking farmer and mother of five sons.